BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[varidgerunner]

My Ga Noi Asil cross pullet that was hatched last March, went missing in August, and showed up with chicks in September, started laying yesterday. Her sister, who I have penned with a stag has laid all along. In fact, my entire flock of laying age birds is made up of oriental games. Even with Christmas cooking, I sent eggs home with family today. But if you read from the experts, who have obviously not dealt with all of the fowl they write about, games are not very productive. I think the Thais and Ga Noi are a little more productive than most others, especially the Bankivas. Somewhere there was a stout woman who poked a stubby finger in her husbands chest and said, "You keep all these roosters in bamboo pens, feed them all our food, you better bring me in some eggs, and have some birds with some meat on them once in a while." So they ended up as a triple purpose bird. My Asil are putting out eggs, too, but not like the Ga Noi influenced birds. They aren't Leghorns, but at the same time, they are a lot more productive than some of the fancy breeds I have messed with, and definitely much hardier.

 

[Beer can]

I would put the twine on the outside of your fence, about 5 inches above the ground. That way, you could easily use a weed-eater to keep it clear. You likely noticed you can get the product in several colors...I would use one that blends well with the background.

Ditto and X2! Anybody that sticks their nose against that wire won't do it twice.

Yrs ago buddy of mine kept pigs inside a fence of that string stuff worked great, it was probably only six inches high. Cheap to fence in a big area of woods. Raised many pigs for yrs with just that fence to keep them in. They never got out until one morning...
He had a bluegrass fest/horseshoe tournament that went on real late. Next morning I was sitting outside with him drinking coffee and the pigs got out, he unplugged the fencer to put up lights on the horseshoe pits and forgot to plug the fencer back in. He said we were going to have to kill them (they were chewing on his new peach trees). We got them back in, turned the fencer on, he was right, pigs got a taste of freedom, fence wouldn't hold them anymore, they walked right through it. Strung them up with his Allis Chalmers WD bucket to skin them and had another big party that night.
I miss those days, wife doesn't allow me to play on that side of the mountain no more....

 

[Beer can]

I know, right? I've spent the past 15+ years studying food, nutrition and the food industry in this country....which is why I'm now so determined to grow as much of our own food as possible. When I worked in the power industry my department(s) received GAO reports straight from the government. I was the only one who read all of them (a good way to pass the time on graveyard shifts). The information they contained about our mechanized food industry horrified me, and then horrified my husband when I came home from work and told him all about it. Most of our friends and family think we're a little crazy...and I think they're woefully uninformed.

I skipped a lot, reading backwards now Lol. What you posted here was the reason why I resurrected our garden and chicken raising after we abandoned them a few yrs ago, we got sick and tired of the work with kids, jobs, etc. After watching, reading, hearing, much on the food today I decided the work was worth it. Would like to be completely self sustainable someday, might not be fully but every little bit helps.
I work at a dairy plant, my job is condensing the whey from 4% to 40% solids and loading out one to two trailers 60,000lbs ea of the stuff a day. It originally went out to a place that condensed it further down to a powder, removed the lactose from it and also something in it that goes into the coating on pills. Driver told me they had a load of smelly blood, spleens, hearts, other 'stuff'' from a beef slaughter house. They told him it gets dehydrated down to a powder and shipped to soup companies as beef protein to be put in soups...mmmm...
Now our whey is being shipped to a place that makes animal feed out of it. I asked the driver what animals is it fed to?
It gets mixed with all sorts of stuff, trailer loads of out of date, damaged, non-saleable everything, bread donuts ring dings and ho ho's twinkies potato chips corn chips macaroni and the cheese packets spaghetti, he named off a list of stuff he's seen them dump into the giant mixer, even candy with the wrappers on still. The place must be the garbage dump for the food industry. They mix our concentrated whey in and dump it on a huge floor that dehydrates it, then they bust it up into chunks and send it out to the beef feed lots out west...mmmm...cows ain't supposed to eat that sheet.

 

[stryker]

This is a double

.. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mini Meat]

La Manchas are by far NOT the ugliest goat...

Click the link If you dare.

https://featuredcreature.com/most-beautiful-goat/

Damacus goats are a horror show of human breeding

EDIT: You can't un-see this... seriously.

 

[Beer can]

@Mini Meat Those definitely got hit by the ugly stick, must give bad milk also...lol.

 

[hellbender]

La Manchas are by far NOT the ugliest goat...

Click the link If you dare.

https://featuredcreature.com/most-beautiful-goat/

Damacus goats are a horror show of human breeding

EDIT: You can't un-see this... seriously.

I don't see how that breed could deal with a cud, required to make milk. I believe their goats should wear BURKAS!!!

 

[miss heny]

Ugh and people say use Lamacha breeders are cruel?

 

[Arielle]

Nankins is the ancient bantam breed i was looking for. Not a good meat bird and not a good egg layer but i do wonder at the potental value in not needing a lot of food everyday compared to the high egg layers....for a farm producing its own feed... in a suitable climate as it needs prtection from cold....

 

[miss heny]

If you allow your birds to free range specially bantams they'll eat a lot less feed. I have around 20 or so birds including ducks free ranging and they only eat about one can of coffee food a day.