BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[ChickenCanoe]

Update on growth tracking. It is proving to be fun, my 2 girls love having the baby chicks inside for a little while in the evenings. They like to cuddle their food....

Chick ID Hatch Wt - Ounces 11/23 (@2 days) Wk 3 12/13 % Change W2 % Change Hatch W4 12/20 % Change W3 % Change Hatch

Breed Type
Blue Band 1.58 7.2 48.45% 355.70% 10.07 39.86% 537.34%
Green Band 1.35 6.37 59.25% 371.85% 9.14 43.49% 577.04%
Purple Band 1.44 4 58.73% 177.78% 5.34 33.50% 270.83%
Orange Band 1.27 8.64 60.00% 580.31% 13.23 53.13% 941.73%

Breed Type
Pink Band 1.49 6.74 46.84% 352.35% 9.21 36.65% 518.12%
Yellow band 1.17 4 52.09% 241.88% 5.43 35.75% 364.10%

The numbers in the last column are starkly different. I'm guessing they are all different breeds and certainly not from the same line of birds.

 

[Molpet]

Cook book for tough chicken, why my littlest brother thought I needed this for a Christmas present IDK? Even wrote in it, "Les, sounded like your kind of recipe book : )"
It's actually a great recipe book with a wonderful story in the beginning, there is a few short chapters of this before the recipes begin, authors friend usually only has laying hens was sent 50 cockerels from a hatchery by mistake, found them to be tough, stringy, chewy, so she set out to make some edible recipes, 50 of them, right down to the comb and wattles...
Link to Amazon on the book, http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LE...8259143X/RK=0/RS=5mjRVVGsmdvVofGNu_bGA_NX8yI-

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and no joke, recipes are for real.

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[ChickenCanoe]

Didn't work for me either.

Is this the book?
https://www.amazon.com/50-Ways-Eat-Cock-AlternaTips/dp/148259143X
Written by certified nutritionist Adrienne Hew.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
PLEASE don't forget sex - males and females will grow differently, and for some breeds, it may even be your first hint that you have a boy vs. girl. And as others have pointed out, different breeds grow at different rates. I would withhold any judgment at least until you know the sex. See the graph below, all Naked Necks from the same (hatchery) source. Pink is girls, blue is boys. This is from ages 0 to 6 weeks:




It's useful to have weights even with varied chicks, just don't make culling decisions based on early growth when that may be genetically different for each...

- Ant Farm

Edit to add - The green line was a chick with undetermined sex - I had trouble because it had a rose comb. He turned out to skyrocket in growth and be the biggest and is now my big main flock rooster Snape.

 

[Beer can]

Didn't work for me either.

Is this the book?
https://www.amazon.com/50-Ways-Eat-Cock-AlternaTips/dp/148259143X
Written by certified nutritionist Adrienne Hew.

Huh? Worked for me last night but not now. Maybe something to do with the name, or cause I'm on our old laptop with windows 7. Our new laptop died have to take it somewhere cause it's full of vids and pics that we haven't saved yet...

But yeah, that's the book, kinda a gag gift but it's a real cookbook. First 25 pages are quite the story behind it and nutritional stuff, then the recipes.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

PLEASE don't forget sex - males and females will grow differently, and for some breeds, it may even be your first hint that you have a boy vs. girl. And as others have pointed out, different breeds grow at different rates. I would withhold any judgment at least until you know the sex. See the graph below, all Naked Necks from the same (hatchery) source. Pink is girls, blue is boys. This is from ages 0 to 6 weeks:




It's useful to have weights even with varied chicks, just don't make culling decisions based on early growth when that may be genetically different for each...

- Ant Farm

Edit to add - The green line was a chick with undetermined sex - I had trouble because it had a rose comb. He turned out to skyrocket in growth and be the biggest and is now my big main flock rooster Snape.

Excellent points. First sign of males of the same breed is taller, heavier and thicker legs.

It is still a good idea to have growth rates for comparison with future generations.

 

[Kassaundra]

Actually Dubia are some of the easiest of the feeder insects to raise, especially if you live in an area where freezing isn't a problem. The only easier one would be black soldier fly larve, which for most of us would be seasonal. (but completely outside) They aren't fast like german roaches we are all familiar with.

 

[DesertChic]

Actually Dubia are some of the easiest of the feeder insects to raise, especially if you live in an area where freezing isn't a problem. The only easier one would be black soldier fly larve, which for most of us would be seasonal. (but completely outside) They aren't fast like german roaches we are all familiar with.

I canNOT believe I am giving serious thought to raising roaches for my chickens. You are such a bad influence on me!

 

[Molpet]

thoughts on meal worms vs roaches.... and does anyone raise mice for the chickens? I have been feeding the ones I catch in the house and they are a big hit LOL

 

[FaerieChicken]

PLEASE don't forget sex - males and females will grow differently, and for some breeds, it may even be your first hint that you have a boy vs. girl. And as others have pointed out, different breeds grow at different rates. I would withhold any judgment at least until you know the sex. See the graph below, all Naked Necks from the same (hatchery) source. Pink is girls, blue is boys. This is from ages 0 to 6 weeks:




It's useful to have weights even with varied chicks, just don't make culling decisions based on early growth when that may be genetically different for each...

- Ant Farm

Edit to add - The green line was a chick with undetermined sex - I had trouble because it had a rose comb. He turned out to skyrocket in growth and be the biggest and is now my big main flock rooster Snape.

I kinda think that the larger ones are males the 2 smallest females, and the middles are a toss!

I tried incorporating a graph straight from the info, but it doesn't look right

its so not working for me