Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

Ok... Questions... Ladt year I sold straight run super fancy chucks at $10 each, and mutts and kess desirable at $5 each....

I am trying to decide:

1. If EEs that will lay blue eggs (Ameraucana over Leghorns) count as $10 chicks or 6, or 8....?

2. Do I wanna sell sexed Dominique chicks... Straight run I would sell for $5, so is sexed $10? Sounds steep for a Dominique...dunno.

3. If I sell sexed Dominiques... Do I have the stomach to off the male chicks? Dunno I am happy with butchering chickens, I have no issues with that. And I do not want to raise a jillion Dominique cockerels, and really, what is the difference between offing them when they are chicks verses grown. But it does FEEL different to me. I guess I will run it by the kids, and see what they think.

 

[1kluckychik]

Easter Eggers crossed with white leghorns should produce SBEL (super blue egg layers) if the EE carries 2 copies of blue egg shell gene. $10 straight run.

Sexed dominiques: I would sell trios ONLY for $20-25

 

[hennible]

Yeah I'd buy EE chicks for $10

 

[Peep_Show]

Peep, I am all

and

You have a cellar with barrels in it?

We have very wee barrels for our first distilling...they hold about two average booze bottle's worth apiece. Got whiskey aging in them, but it'll be years before savoring. Next year, though, we'll purchase bigger barrels (several gallons) for aging the wine. This year's grape harvest/juice/wine was kind of lackluster in flavor (glass fermentation, racking and straight into the bottles), so I think the barrel aging (NO char in wine barrels) is the way to go for that particular blend.

And, no, no cellar. It's "Be Kind to Knees" around here and a one-level home. (but I've got a heckuva liquor cabinet!)

 

[hennible]

Tossed in 11 more eggs.... Screw it, let's exsperiment!

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks hen and cluck for the inputs...


Peep, I think that is the coolest, BARRELS!!

Hen, yeah, go for it STUFF THAT SUCKER!!!

 

[Beer can]

Anyone else ever miss chickens they've lost? I'm sure the answer is yes... I miss a lot of chickens.

Your sounding like a little kid, you OK, hormones in check?
Yeah I miss a couple!!! That silkie rooster I had was awesome! didn't care much for his crowing 24hrs a day, and I've always wanted to try a black meat bird...he's in the freezer still, haven't tried it yet..Langshan cockerel was the prettiest I've ever had, tall tail up to his head, SOP from what I can tell, but I had no pullets...Welsummer roo last yr, dang he was pretty and awesome, when I wanted to breed welsummers, hens crapped out and he turned mean, wasn't cool when he attacked the kids, super uncool when he put me in the poop wearing flip flops and shorts, hard to defend yourself with a flip flop...still took months to off his head....Yeah I have a preferance for the roosters, hope that doesn't sound gay, but in the bird world the males are the pretty ones...crap...that sounds even gayer....

Ok... Questions... Ladt year I sold straight run super fancy chucks at $10 each, and mutts and kess desirable at $5 each....

I am trying to decide:

1. If EEs that will lay blue eggs (Ameraucana over Leghorns) count as $10 chicks or 6, or 8....?

2. Do I wanna sell sexed Dominique chicks... Straight run I would sell for $5, so is sexed $10? Sounds steep for a Dominique...dunno.

3. If I sell sexed Dominiques... Do I have the stomach to off the male chicks? Dunno

I am happy with butchering chickens, I have no issues with that. And I do not want to raise a jillion Dominique cockerels, and really, what is the difference between offing them when they are chicks verses grown. But it does FEEL different to me.

I guess I will run it by the kids, and see what they think.

Get what you can get.
I plan on offing non sop chicks early, not as chicks but as early as is edible. Skin them and split them an throw them on the grill, feed problem solved. Have you tried caponizing cockerels?

Yeah I'd buy EE chicks for $10

Sold!!!

 

[1kluckychik]

The chick in my avatar escaped and has been gone for months. She was pretty cool. Dumb as a post but friendly.

 

[vehve]

Christa, was it before the floods or during? Sorry to hear she's disappeared.

Al, sounds like decent prices to me.

Peep, I remember we added oak chips to the 15 gallon glass fermentation vessel, whatever you might call it, when we made apple wine years ago.

 

[Peep_Show]

Yep, we'll probably finesse a little more art into our fermentation this next year. Actually, this year's production of fruits and veggies out in the compound was mainly to see what would grow and grow well in our climate and to experiment with creating potent potables. We were pleasantly surprised at the bounty of sweet potatoes and awestruck by the homemade chipotle powder (red ripe jalepeno peppers smoked with alder and oak and then dehydrated and ground, so not the usual harshness of mesquite). Next year I hope to maybe do an occasional booth at the growers market if the weather and fates allow.