Colorado

[FrogEggs]

Sounds interesting.

Hi All, I saw this posting on Craigslist for a Chicken Processing class. Has anyone here gone to this class? Wendy
Chicken Processing Class - $50 (Ellicott)

You asked for it! SO here it is Chicken Processing from start to finish. We will teach you how to go from live chicken to ready for the pot. You even take one home with you. ($20 value)

This class is an all day class from 8-4 with a one hour lunch. We will provide BBQ Beef sandwiches, a relish tray, and drinks. If you would like to bring a side dish that would be awesome. There are three different days to choose from with six spots available for each day.

Contact Marilan Luttrell at 719-683-5678 or email [email protected] to reserve a spot, your reservation will be confirmed when we receive your payment via paypal at the link below for tickets or snail mail if you prefer.

NO ONE UNDER 18 ALLOWED!

With this class you will be placed at stations with an instructor who will show you the job of that station then you will do the work repeatedly. We will help you perfect your skill. When you leave this class you will be proficient and completely comfortable doing this process long after the class when you raise your own chickens at home. The stations will teach you (1) catch, kill and bleed, (2) scald and pluck, (3) wash, eviscerate, saving and cleaning innards, (hearts, gizzards, liver) (4) runner from outside to in moving meat, (5) making bags, cutting meat into three possible ways, and vacuum sealing, and (6) assisting inside with storage and freezing. There will be plenty of time with the instructors to ask questions and see all the equipment needed to raise your own chicks and process them. Its a great time and extremely educational too.

 

[Pozees]

Look forward to having you in this thread and our state!!

Quick question- I have a rooster that constantly wants to "get it on" with a few of my ladies; to the point where I have to make sure they get enough to eat because they will run away from him. My ladies are exhausted, and "vacation" doesn't seem to work with him. Does anyone have any suggestions to get him to slow down (other than the dinner table)? He watches over the ladies really well, so I would prefer that is not the suggested fate.

How old is he? If young he may slow down once he reaches a year of age or so. In the meantime, you can set up something like an integration pen in the run or in the yard if they are free ranging. I use an ex-pen for dogs with hardware cloth across the top. I put the new chicken in there, and after all the others have gone into the coop for the night I take the new bird and put it into the coop using one of the people doors for the first few nights, then I open the gate and see if the new kid will go in by itself (I've just done this with a Fayoumi cockerel). In the morning, I open the pop door, and when the new bird comes down the ramp the first few days I quickly pick it up and put it in the integration pen for the day (there is food and water in there). After several days, if I'm not seeing anything that makes me believe it needs to continue, I let the bird stay out in the run with the others and watch. If it gets picked on or gets aggressive with the other birds, it goes back in the integration pen.

So in your case, you could use the integration pen as a time out pen, sort of, placing him in there for part of the day. Once he gets a bit older he may settle down.

The other option would be getting him more ladies, of course ... you know, chicken math!

 

[Pozees]

Hi All, I saw this posting on Craigslist for a Chicken Processing class. Has anyone here gone to this class? Wendy
Chicken Processing Class - $50 (Ellicott)


You asked for it! SO here it is Chicken Processing from start to finish. We will teach you how to go from live chicken to ready for the pot. You even take one home with you. ($20 value)

This class is an all day class from 8-4 with a one hour lunch. We will provide BBQ Beef sandwiches, a relish tray, and drinks. If you would like to bring a side dish that would be awesome. There are three different days to choose from with six spots available for each day.

Contact Marilan Luttrell at 719-683-5678 or email [email protected] to reserve a spot, your reservation will be confirmed when we receive your payment via paypal at the link below for tickets or snail mail if you prefer.

NO ONE UNDER 18 ALLOWED!

With this class you will be placed at stations with an instructor who will show you the job of that station then you will do the work repeatedly. We will help you perfect your skill. When you leave this class you will be proficient and completely comfortable doing this process long after the class when you raise your own chickens at home. The stations will teach you (1) catch, kill and bleed, (2) scald and pluck, (3) wash, eviscerate, saving and cleaning innards, (hearts, gizzards, liver) (4) runner from outside to in moving meat, (5) making bags, cutting meat into three possible ways, and vacuum sealing, and (6) assisting inside with storage and freezing. There will be plenty of time with the instructors to ask questions and see all the equipment needed to raise your own chicks and process them. Its a great time and extremely educational too.

Gee, Wendell, look at all that unrealized income!

 

[Ginger Assassin]

Do any of you own silkie hens?

 

[Denverchickee]

Originally Posted by Denverchickee

What's your opinion/advice.....

I changed to all organic feed last Saturday (well still mixing with non organic food, right now till gone)
I was really hoping for improved laying but my egg production has gone down? I may have gotten 5 egges this week from 5 hens that should be laying. And most of the eggs are from the same 3 hens.
Does it take chickens time to adjust to new food?
I'm sure the heat this week may have a impact?

Any thoughts or advice is appreciated.
Thanks
B

I would give them some more time. Some chickens are very sensitive to change.

Thank you Ms. Mtn Margie. Patience and I have a love hate relationship.

Maybe my expectations are too high?

 

[Denverchickee]

Here is what I am trying... chickboxes. They have a perch, which is movable and goes
up at night so my chickies don't try to sleep in there... then there is a roll away tray for eggs
with a clear plastic cover. We'll see what the girls do tomorrow. I did put some pine shavings
into the trays, but I believe I am to reduce the amount each day till they are used to the plastic.
I mounted these to my fence and I say they are about 6 inches off the ground.

These look really cool. At this time I have no use for chick boxes and don't anticipate where we are located right now. I guess if we lost some hens and got new chicks it would be great. But I really like the idea for hen nests. Considering this. thank you.

 

[Denverchickee]

X2 - and the heat is not helping. Been 100 here the last few days.

Pozees, appreciate the input as well. Im only a newbie (16 months or so) I grateful for this site and the folks here that are so informative.

I watched the weather and it seems like we are getting a cool off here in the metro area for the next week or so maybe my girls will enjoy and lay me some more eggs!!!

Have a great rest of weekend!

 

[WendyGeisler]

Tonight I was planting flowers by the house when this bear walked right up! We got the garage door closed in the nick of time, then I RAN around the backyard and husled all of my girls in to the coop early, they were not happy about going to bed early.
On a sad note, last night one of my turkeys was killed. The two turkeys poults have been going to bed on top of the chicken coop. There is bird netting over the run but it is not very strong. I think a raccoon got up on the fence and pulled the female turkey through the netting. We found the remains about 3 feet away. So sad, this is my first bird to be lost to a predator.... My male turkey was sooo lonely today. I must find him another friend. I moved all 3 coops away from the fence and tonight I insisted that Turkey Lurkey went into the coop with the girls.

 

[Mtn Margie]

That is a beauty of a bear. Looks like one we have roaming around here. Always something isn't it! Sorry about your turkey being taken -

to you.

 

[wsmith]

Gee, Wendell, look at all that unrealized income!

LOL. I was thinking that as well.

But then, I am cheap, and would NEVER pay that much. Personally, i think its WAY too much to charge.
But hey, if they get it, good for them.