BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[RedRidge]

Thanks @RedRidge
and @hellbender


Sherry - I'm guessing you're referring to the heritage birds going longer than the hatchery birds?

exactly

 

[LindaB220]

Hi Linda,
We have not chatted in some time. As per your penchant to obtain a chest freezer, Sue and I had one years ago. Later we bought two upright freezers. Why 2? We had two boys who always ate as though they were a cross between Sumo wrestlers and active duty infantrymen! Sue jokingly opined that either one of them could stand in front of an open refrigerator, inhale and empty the dang thing! Not too great an exaggeration as we were constantly hauling frozen foods from the deep freezer to replenish the 'fridge. While the chest freezers are somewhat cheaper than the counterpart upright, we soon learned that one had to practically unload the chest freezer in order to see what lay below out of sight. A pain in the what-sit! Since the upright has a series of shelves one could see the entire inventory at a glance. You make your own choice now that you know the pitfall of a chesty.
I wish you well,
Neal, the Zooman

Hey Neal, yes I've been kicking around the idea of an upright also. It will fit better in my storeroom and still give me space. I thought of you today. Tomorrow is our voting day and I'm making plans to be out bright and early to vote out Mary Landrieu of the Senate rate.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I've had both and I choose upright any day!

(Sounds like you choose upright too, based on your voting preference.

)
PS: No need to start a political conversation... just being silly.

 

[LindaB220]

I've had both and I choose upright any day!

(Sounds like you choose upright too, based on your voting preference.

)
PS: No need to start a political conversation... just being silly.

You've got that right. No politics.

 

[armorfirelady]

I've had both and I choose upright any day!

(Sounds like you choose upright too, based on your voting preference.

)
PS: No need to start a political conversation... just being silly.

I use my upright for food for us. The small chest freezer is now filled with fruits & veggies for the hens for the winter. Its usually off from spring to fall.

 

[RedRidge]

We prefer the chest freezers for meat due to the longevity of food frozen - no automatic defrost and refreezing, not to mention the inefficiency every time the door is opened on the uprights. So. .. We went with a large chest for meat and use an upright for veggies, butter (which I make for the year each spring), and odds and ends.
Each has their pros and cons.

 

[LindaB220]

We prefer the chest freezers for meat due to the longevity of food frozen - no automatic defrost and refreezing, not to mention the inefficiency every time the door is opened on the uprights. So. .. We went with a large chest for meat and use an upright for veggies, butter (which I make for the year each spring), and odds and ends.
Each has their pros and cons.

Okay I knew there was a reason I was thinking about the chest freezer. It's the defrost thingy. Hum, big decisions ahead.

 

[ronott1]

Okay I knew there was a reason I was thinking about the chest freezer. It's the defrost thingy. Hum, big decisions ahead.

I have a stand up freezer that is not frost free.

They are cheap too.

 

[hellbender]

All of our freezers are chest type. Some of them were bought by my dad and just keep working and if it works well, it stays. We don't keep anything but meat in freezers so it's easy enough for us to use the dividers as a means of separating the items and we put specific colored labels on the product, making it easy to know what's what.

As an aside, I'm heading to West Virginia tomorrow with my daughter, feeling confident she will do better in the fresh mountain air and the ability to walk when she can without fear of being mugged, which is a distinct prospect where her apartment is located.. She has an apartment in Old Louisville but I'm hoping I can talk her into giving it up. It's a beautiful neighborhood in an up-scale part of town but the scum of the earth lives in relative proximity.

She has expressed an interest in a chicken breed that we do not now have and if things work out, perhaps in a year or so, she might get hooked on the dreaded drug "chicken" like the rest of her family.

She was always been a dog person and did show with considerable success but brutal honesty dictates that she might never be able to run fast enough again, to gate a dog in the ring.

 

[RedRidge]

All of our freezers are chest type.  Some of them were bought by my dad and just keep working and if it works well, it stays.  We don't keep anything but meat in freezers so it's easy enough for us to use the dividers as a means of separating the items and we put specific colored labels on the product, making it easy to know what's what.

As an aside, I'm heading to West Virginia tomorrow with my daughter, feeling confident she will do better in the fresh mountain air and the ability to walk when she can without fear of being mugged, which is a distinct prospect where her apartment is located.. She has an apartment in Old Louisville but I'm hoping I can talk her into giving it up. It's a beautiful neighborhood in an up-scale part of town but the scum of the earth lives in relative proximity.

She has expressed an interest in a chicken breed that we do not now have and if things work out, perhaps in a year or so, she might get hooked on the dreaded drug "chicken" like the rest of her family. 

She was always been a dog person and did show with considerable success but brutal honesty dictates that she might never be able to run fast enough again, to gate a dog in the ring.  

Good luck to your daughter. I've showed all kinds of livestock (cattle, sheep, dogs...). The easiest on you physically is rabbits. Maybe what she needs is a nice trio of AmChins. ;-)