BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[DesertChic]

Lenny is going to be such a stunner when grown!

IF I was you I would keep Andres around... He looks promising.

I have big plans for both of those boys. I thought Monty and Simon were fantastic, but their sons are putting them to shame.

 

[NanaKat]

 


Right there with you.  It just kills me to see all the places around me being sold to developers for building subdivisions.  How in the world do people think that food will be grown to feed people if all the land is taken up by neighborhoods?  Here they keep trying to take water from rural areas and pipe it into the cities - where it goes to water lawns and cement.  Texas is under drought conditions most of the time, the last thing rural areas need is to lose their water so they can't grow anything. 

They're shutting off the water to my house tomorrow to finish installing all of the pipes for the new housing development they're building right next to my property. Never mind that we've been paying for this water for years. A new developer can come in and just have our water shut off for his building project. This area used to be open range. Now....it sucks. 

Has the developer made no plan to provide you with water? Most states have codes to protect individuals to protect/provide essential utilities including water. Check with your water company about requiring delivery of water containers.

 

[NanaKat]

Double post

 

[FaerieChicken]

I informed my son yesterday that I will be culling three of the four remaining Bielefelders, including my big Biel rooster, Hansel. The Biels simply do NOT do well out here and they're too much of a handful during the summer. Rather than losing out on the meat when they die from heat stroke I'm just going to cull them and be done with it. The two girls I have left were never good layers anyway. My beloved Bosch gets a stay of execution though. He's still my favorite rooster of all time and too much of a pet now to cull. He can live in the house if it gets too hot outside.

Why can't you still eat them after a heat stroke death? Does it taint the meat?

Also, If you meet me half way, Ill take them! Our weather is bit more temperate! They might do good, and if they aren't great layers that is ok, I can use whatever eggs they do lay to incubate for meat chicks! But I understand you probably want to have the meat too!

 

[FaerieChicken]

Ok, so I put eggs in the incubator on the eve of Dec 21st. Is tonight lock down or tomorrow night? OMG I am getting way too excited. I only had to purge 1 egg for non development. I candled them this morning briefly before work, and the aircells have dipped quite a bit since the last candling on Tuesday. I am hoping that the 2nd turkey egg is viable, because I can't see in there well, I thought I had seen veins, but it could have just been the shadows from grass/dirt stains on the outer shell!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Ok, so I put eggs in the incubator on the eve of Dec 21st. Is tonight lock down or tomorrow night? OMG I am getting way too excited. I only had to purge 1 egg for non development. I candled them this morning briefly before work, and the aircells have dipped quite a bit since the last candling on Tuesday. I am hoping that the 2nd turkey egg is viable, because I can't see in there well, I thought I had seen veins, but it could have just been the shadows from grass/dirt stains on the outer shell!

Well, I put mine in same time as yours - I THINK lock down is tomorrow. But I also ran my temps a little high (around 110.4F), so I may get early hatchers. Might try locking down tonight... Hmmm...

- Ant Farm

 

[FaerieChicken]

Well, I put mine in same time as yours - I THINK lock down is tomorrow. But I also ran my temps a little high (around 110.4F), so I may get early hatchers. Might try locking down tonight... Hmmm...

- Ant Farm

Hi Ant Farm, I mildly forgot you are a part of this thread too, LOL. I did read the reply to it in the other thread, hehehe.

Oh my gosh, how did they survive that temp? My bator has ran evenly about 100*, with the minor fluctuations during candling/weighing. I had it running on low humidity though, until this am, I put a bit of water due to the dip in aircells, but I am now thinking that its a good dip, but it happened so dang fast. Now I just have to go back over my paperwork to see how high to run the humidity and figure out how much water will give me that desired % without having to take out water, cause once that grate is back in there I wont be able to move anything easily!

 

[holm25]

Hi Ant Farm, I mildly forgot you are a part of this thread too, LOL. I did read the reply to it in the other thread, hehehe. 

Oh my gosh, how did they survive that temp?   My bator has ran evenly about 100*, with the minor fluctuations during candling/weighing. I had it running on low humidity though, until this am, I put a bit of water due to the dip in aircells, but I am now thinking that its a good dip, but it  happened so dang fast. Now I just have to go back over my paperwork to see how high to run the humidity and figure out how much water will give me that desired % without having to take out water, cause once that grate is back in there I wont be able to move anything easily!

I keep my incubator running with 35-40% during the first 18 days and after that I jack it up to 70-80% humidity. I run mine at 99-100 degrees the whole time. I assume FAF had a typo with the 110 degrees? Maybe not. Mine usually die if they get that hot! Lol. I just pour water into my incubator and only fill one valley and the humidity stays steady the whole time.

What type of incubator are you using right now?

 

[DesertChic]

Why can't you still eat them after a heat stroke death? Does it taint the meat?

Also, If you meet me half way, Ill take them! Our weather is bit more temperate! They might do good, and if they aren't great layers that is ok, I can use whatever eggs they do lay to incubate for meat chicks! But I understand you probably want to have the meat too!

Sorry, but no road trips for me. We also own a business and between the farm and the business, free time is something I only hear about from others.

If you get a bird right after it dies of heat stroke then it's no big deal, but the longer an animal lay dead before you can process it, the greater the chances of tainted meat. The last Biel girl I had die of heat stroke was already in full rigor by the time we got home and I found her. There's no way I'm eating that.

 

[holm25]

Lost one of my old Brahma girls... This cold is rough on the birds... I think she had arthritis from a leg injury she got as a chick and she never got on the roost with the other birds and froze... She was awful stiff over the last few days... Not having the best luck right now.... Oh well...