Consolidated Kansas

[KNHKLUCKERS]

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KNHKLUCKERS, I've tried the knife blade through the back of the mouth thing after bleeding out but didn't get the shudder and squawk and I can attest that it makes it worse if you don't. We finally just skinned them and are happy with that for our own table. My mother always told me that the toxins are found in the skin and fat. So I'm programmed to skin anyway. I just soak it in milk a bit and there you go, moist and tasty. I'll probably find out that's a terrible thing to do!

Thanks for that. From what I have read it sound like I will be trying it this weekend. I have 12 Cornish X that are nearing 6 weeks. My brother used a fish scale to weight a couple tonight and one was 8lbs 14oz and the other was 7lbs 8oz roo and hen. I don't want them to get to the point that legs start breaking or having heart issues. If I don't butcher this weekend they will have to wait 2 more weeks. I need some opinions from some of you. Do I wait or do I butcher?? As of now I have been lucky and haven't lost any. Does any know, given the weights mentioned, how much would they weigh clean?

 

[Trish44]

I've been reading, just been really busy the last few days, I feel like I'm chasing my own tail. I can't seem to get caught up lately, I have so much I need to get done it's hard to know where to start first. I had waited so long for the weather to warm up & things got behind. Now I'm playing catch up.

I thought we were going to get some rain here tonight, but it bypassed us, we only got a few sprinkles. I'm glad we didn't get the wind everybody was talking about either.

 

[KNHKLUCKERS]

I've been reading, just been really busy the last few days, I feel like I'm chasing my own tail. I can't seem to get caught up lately, I have so much I need to get done it's hard to know where to start first. I had waited so long for the weather to warm up & things got behind. Now I'm playing catch up.

I thought we were going to get some rain here tonight, but it bypassed us, we only got a few sprinkles. I'm glad we didn't get the wind everybody was talking about either.

Same here we have had some lightning and a few sprinkles. Other than that I really enjoyed sitting on the porch this evening watching the lightning with only a little breeze!!! I finally got my yard cut a few days ago and it was so tall that I had to go over it twice...and my garden is still to wet to plant...It has been a crazy spring for sure...

 

[RoosterLew]

Spring? Down here were having winsprummer!

 

[TheDownyChick]

Spring? Down here were having winsprummer!

So THAT'S what it is called! Lol!

 

[michelleml]

Sorry haven't posted it's been crazy around here. My dh is doing well on radiation his chemo starts next week.
My Roo has been going after us for at least two weeks. I had my hands full with water buckets and he jumped at my legs. Any ideas what I can do? I'm worried about kids sense he's done this to my 11 yr old and 4 year old. Plus he's done it more to Dh which he is getting fed up with.

Just wanted to share i cute picture we bought 6 assorted bantams from tsc and this is the smallest one but the cockiest one in the bunch

 

[HEChicken]

I hope everyone has their hatches battened down! 80MPH winds here. We watched a full sized dumpters that were half full slide across our parking lot and into two cars. No one is able to make it out to the coop yet because a tree is blocking the road out there.

Oh my, I was so scared after I read this. I really worry what an 80mph wind could do around here. Fortunately we didn't get much wind and only a little rain.

Does any know, given the weights mentioned, how much would they weigh clean?

Roughly 2/3 of the live weight, is what the dressed out weight will be.

Spring? Down here were having winsprummer!

I'm glad to have another word to add to my vocabulary....

Sorry haven't posted it's been crazy around here. My dh is doing well on radiation his chemo starts next week.
My Roo has been going after us for at least two weeks. I had my hands full with water buckets and he jumped at my legs. Any ideas what I can do? I'm worried about kids sense he's done this to my 11 yr old and 4 year old. Plus he's done it more to Dh which he is getting fed up with.

Michelle, I hate to say it, but its time to think about processing that rooster. Been there, done that. I had a rooster I really liked as he was a great flock leader and protector. He was on constant guard, sounded alerts when necessary, found treats, treated the hens very gently - never saw a single hen with any signs she was being mated and yet fertility was very good. Unfortunately he saw me as a threat to his hens and attacked me on a regular basis. I researched all the "tried and true" methods for training him to leave me alone, and even tried a few things of my own but in the end, he attacked me one too many times and I felt I had no options left. None of the methods I tried had a permanent effect. There were things I tried that would stop him for 2-3 weeks but in the end he would start coming after me again. Since then I've had a couple that were also great flock leaders but respectful towards me, and I've come to realize there is really no reason to put up with that because there are always going to be other roosters out there that are good to the hens AND will get along with me.

This morning DH, DS and I were drinking our morning coffee and I looked out the window - always face towards it anyway - and saw something brown on the berm of our pond. Our neighbor's cat visits regularly so I figured it was probably the cat, but I grabbed the binoculars we keep on the windowsill and saw something that got my heart going a pitter patter. Here is the series of pictures I subsequently took:








You'll notice in the bottom two pics, there is a fence. That is the lagoon fence, and my chicken yard shares a fence with the lagoon. In the last one, it was clearly headed for my coop, planning to go around the back side of the lagoon and up to the chicken yard from there. After snapping that pic, I went to let out the dogs - who ordinarily would have already been out there, but thinking the storm was going to be bad last night, I let them sleep in the garage. When they heard the door open, the coyotes took off.

And here is a pic just because I already had the camera out:

 

[jennyjane73]

I think I heard a pathetic crow this morning from one of the possible roosters. Of course, I couldn't get him to do it while I was watching. I got 6 assorted bantams from TSC & think 3 are roosters. They are about 6 weeks old now. Just waiting on the weather to cooperate to put them outside. I also have 2, 3 week old silkies. I hope they're both girls!

 

[sarahswank]

Glad you didnt get the brunt of the storms like we did. the storm sort of blew it self out as it moved northwest. I live way out west but I heard wichita was supposed to get bad also. Thankfully inside the city fared much better then we did out in the county.


We didnt make it out to the coop until this morning. Our new coop took a direct hit from a tree coming down on it. The branches busted out the glass pane, and the hardware cloth from around one of the windows, and the weight of the tree itself seems to have warped the building slightly, the door seemed a bit hard to open and the glass in one of the back windows was cracked like it was bearing weight funny. Atleast it was still standing! We lost one chicken to this mess. We are hopeing he just flew out the open window and will show up either with our neighbor's peacocks (who are also missing) or he will wind up hanging out near the run. We got the tree pushed off the roof, and we used nails to hold a new piece of hardware cloth up across the window. It isnt the most secure, but since we both had to get to work this morning, it had to do. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow we can get out and properly attach the hardware cloth and get a measurement for where the flip-up glass used to go. We already decieded we are just going to replace it with wood. The chickens are just going to have to live with one less window of light.

Oh my, I was so scared after I read this. I really worry what an 80mph wind could do around here. Fortunately we didn't get much wind and only a little rain.



This morning DH, DS and I were drinking our morning coffee and I looked out the window - always face towards it anyway - and saw something brown on the berm of our pond. Our neighbor's cat visits regularly so I figured it was probably the cat, but I grabbed the binoculars we keep on the windowsill and saw something that got my heart going a pitter patter. Here is the series of pictures I subsequently took:








You'll notice in the bottom two pics, there is a fence. That is the lagoon fence, and my chicken yard shares a fence with the lagoon. In the last one, it was clearly headed for my coop, planning to go around the back side of the lagoon and up to the chicken yard from there. After snapping that pic, I went to let out the dogs - who ordinarily would have already been out there, but thinking the storm was going to be bad last night, I let them sleep in the garage. When they heard the door open, the coyotes took off.

And here is a pic just because I already had the camera out:

Wow. good timing on noticing out your window! Them sneaky B****** ds always seem to know when the usual defenses are down.

That turkey is georgous!

 

[HEChicken]

We didnt make it out to the coop until this morning. Our new coop took a direct hit from a tree coming down on it. The branches busted out the glass pane, and the hardware cloth from around one of the windows, and the weight of the tree itself seems to have warped the building slightly, the door seemed a bit hard to open and the glass in one of the back windows was cracked like it was bearing weight funny. Atleast it was still standing! We lost one chicken to this mess. We are hopeing he just flew out the open window and will show up either with our neighbor's peacocks (who are also missing) or he will wind up hanging out near the run. We got the tree pushed off the roof, and we used nails to hold a new piece of hardware cloth up across the window. It isnt the most secure, but since we both had to get to work this morning, it had to do. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow we can get out and properly attach the hardware cloth and get a measurement for where the flip-up glass used to go. We already decieded we are just going to replace it with wood. The chickens are just going to have to live with one less window of light.

Wow, so sorry about the damage to your coop but glad the losses weren't worse. I hope your missing birds shows up. This reminded me I really need to get the hurricane ties on my coop. I bought them when I was building but never got around to putting them on and then I had to put chicken wire over the bottom of the rafters to stop birds flying up and roosting there, so now putting them on is a double pain because I will first need to remove the chicken wire to do it. DH said this morning we will assign DS this task over his summer break. He's going to love that! His cousin is coming next week to stay with us for a few weeks so maybe I can set the two of them to work on it