BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[DesertChic]

chicken diaper patterns available via the web!

LMAO!!! Don't tempt me! My family already thinks I'm crazy.

For Xmas my husband bought me half a dozen "chicken" T-shirts with various sayings, a bunch of signs to post on the property, and even had two shirts made into pillows. If I let them start living in the house I'm pretty sure he'd have me committed.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Fantastic birds, DesertChic!!! Today is my weights day as well - here is the graph for the Tank x GNH crosses (with selected photos). The biggest boy is now over 2 lbs at 6 weeks, and the second biggest just under. The pullets are looking good. (They are SO ready to go outside. SOON....) They really do look like they are going to feather out just like GNHs with naked necks!!!

For the graph, Tank is the blue line, orange are boys, purple are girls.



Here's the biggest boy - total sweetheart:


Second biggest boy (sorry, he was a squirmer, and I was too tired to take multiple shots):


Pullets:








Aloha NNs should arrive tomorrow!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[GabrielBane]

SO excite to see the aloha chicks!!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

SO excite to see the aloha chicks!!

If they ever get here. I'm playing the "Track the package" game and they are in that "never never land" where the tracking just says that they have departed (Tuesday evening), and nothing so far since.

 

[GabrielBane]

That always happens with me. Last time it was disastrous (we received three bloodied trampled barbezieux chicks...apparently the post office received our chicks in the afternoon but didn't call us until the next day.... a literal nightmare, I've since learned to befriend your post master for the hookups!) but otherwise it never goes awry, I'm sure it'll they'll be great!


ETA: I also wanted to add, despite my warnings, that customer is still going with a bird that's a 12-13 week grow out. Oy. I have plenty of barred/silver rocks growing out that I'm sure are bound to be boys, and she decreased her order because she got a half pig. I can breathe a little more now.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

All is well, babies arrived safely (thank goodness!) - I picked them up this morning. They were hungry and thirsty, and are now resting under their MHP.

 

[DesertChic]

All is well, babies arrived safely (thank goodness!) - I picked them up this morning. They were hungry and thirsty, and are now resting under their MHP.

So precious! Are these the Aloha's?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yup!!!

 

[FaerieChicken]

So we butchered some birds the other day. Most are Barred Rocks hens and a Leghorn hen, but the 2 roosters we did so far, 1 was a barred rock, the other a BCM mix, were hardly any fat, we skinned them and even though when feeling them up through their feathers didn't seem too meaty, but after getting the skin off and realizing hardly any fat! This may only be a 3lb dressed weight chicken, but let me tell you, his meat looks super delicious and more of it than what we thought it would be!

None of these were part of my previous meat project. Just random birds selected for culling. Hens were way fattier than the boys were. I suspect that the hens will be so anyway just because they are hens?

 

[holm25]

So we butchered some birds the other day. Most are Barred Rocks hens and a Leghorn hen, but the 2 roosters we did so far, 1 was a barred rock, the other a BCM mix, were hardly any fat, we skinned them and even though when feeling them up through their feathers didn't seem too meaty, but after getting the skin off and realizing hardly any fat! This may only be a 3lb dressed weight chicken, but let me tell you, his meat looks super delicious and more of it than what we thought it would be! None of these were part of my previous meat project. Just random birds selected for culling. Hens were way fattier than the boys were. I suspect that the hens will be so anyway just because they are hens?

I suppose it depends on their feed? I finish my roosters so they have lots of fat. I put them on a calf finisher for finishing steers for slaughter. It consists of mainly corn with oats and molasses. As I am sure you know that puts alot of nice fat on them!