Confession time

[bigredfeather]

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Good come-back!

Yeah, I figure this is my early Christmas present for the Boss.

I'll be watching.

Actually I am still working on a sustainable meat bird. My buddy Al has offered to share some of his meat bird project birds with me. I already have one of his roos (quite a brute, that boy) and a bunch of the chicks, but will be picking up some of his layers this next week. If that works out maybe I won't have to work with these beasties for more than a year or so.

Although I don't speak much about it on here, I have been working on my own sustainable meat bird as well. I figure if the day ever comes that CX chicks aren't available, I want to be able to raise something worthwhile for my family's needs. I think it would be difficult to find a market for a non-cornish bird, but I'm sure it's out there, just need to find it.​

 

[Buster52]

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Not tons, but enough to get them away from the house.

I have about 8 acres, although 1 and a half is a pond.

 

[Bucky182]

Why not try MT-DI Rosambro's? I raise them and they have a breast like a CX but don't have the problems. They are almost all white and they dress out at 4 - 4.5 lbs in about 10 weeks or so and are no more expensive.

 

[Bossroo]

When reality sets in and clears a clouded mind, miracles happen !

 

[Buster52]

Thanks for being so gentle with me.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

Bahahahaha . . .

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Hahaha... Nice Boss... proud that you played nice!

Buster... good luck!

 

[bigredfeather]

Jeff it's way too nice for you to be in playing on the computer. Get your butt back outside.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Hey I gotta eat lunch too!!

SO buster... when do you get your first chicks in? When do you start ect. Are you looking forward to it? Do you plan on tractoring them or a day range set up?

Pictures to follow I hope?

 

[walls0stone3]

I like the way you put it.. Reality has set in. .. yea.. it's reality.
I am a farmer... 7th gen' farmer. Free range-yard Full O' Chickens ment you were poor.. cuz your birds were on grass and not fat on grain. Same with cattle. Grass fed? uh! can we say "shoe Lether?" organic gardens with no spray? yea... that to ment you were to poor to keep the bugs off and you pittied the kid who was expected to skip the H.S dance and go home to can beans all weekend... cuz he was BROKE

I'm not busting on anyone for anything.. just saying.. I'm not a factory farmer and 90% of the farmers in the world are not Farmer John or factory freaks.

The Cornish x is a hybrid.. not a frankinbird. Now if you want to spin it the other way (to make a point) what is line breeding? a family tree with no fork. so why not mix breeds...or races.
(keeping blood lines pure sounds to me like hitlers dream of a perfect race).

Also, most farmers don't do the creepy stuff you see in films like Food Inc ect... cuz it costs to much money.

take it from a farmer. the rules are easy...

Pick up a chicken... look in his or her eyes... and say, " I am going to take care of you as good as I can... Untill the day you take care of ME."

Then ask yourself... what does that mean to YOU.. not to a spin doctor at mother globe or hobby farm or whoever is selling the newest idea... what do YOU think that means?

then remember.. Animals first and ppl second. you aquired these critters..and it's your job to feed them even before you sit down at the table.

(tell that to 32 dairy cows every day)

Cool topic. thank god the American Gothic BS is finnaly going away.