EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kajira]

Naw - I know duck is tasty, but in all honesty, I really DO have too much poultry in the freezer right now (since I had a lot of culls last year who were raised with my pullet with ALV), and it seems wasteful to put even more there. I just pulled another two little ones out to thaw - more chicken soup!

And I have all these chicks coming - no matter how you slice it, that's a lot of cockerels to cull!!!

I think I'm going to try pressure canning chicken this year - less freezer space taken up - I read the thread on BYC, and it seems that if you do it right, with an old enough bird, it turns out well. (Not so much for the little ones...)

I know it sounds dumb, but i'm not a domestic diva. I need to learn hands on, I can't learn from pictures or videos, so when you figure out how to do stuff, I'd like to learn. ^.^ My husband says he never has time and if I could figure out how to cull, freeze, dehydrate, or can stuff... I can convince him to let me do stuff.

I got a food dehydrator so I could make dried bananas and oranges - but... i'm not even sure how to get started ^.^

p.s. I'm SERIOUS about wanting to help you cull - I need to learn how to do it and get tough enough not to vomit at the idea of killing an animal.

 

[kwhites634]

Thanks guys, but I don't deserve the sympathy. I hurried and she paid the price. It gives new meaning to dead wrong.

@BantyChooks Did the link work?

I record all Packers games broadcast locally, just in case I can't watch them live for whatever reason.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
x 100. If you want to learn something from it, that's fine, but no point in beating yourself up about it.

I forgot to lock up the chickens until 9:30pm one night (pre-automatic doors). All were, astonishingly, totally fine - including the ones who had a family of raccoons eating from their feeder under the roost when I went to check!!!! I think it took me days to get over that - really stupid mistake, sheer dumb luck. Then on the other hand, sometimes you do everything right and something bad still happens.

- Ant Farm

 

[kajira]

@Fire Ant Farm BTW - you know those placenta's we were talking about???? They melted into my car, my husband was out there with bleach and qtips trying to make it so the dogs at the border patrol dogs won't hit on my car ^.^ Said it resembled a serial killer clean up.

 

[duluthralphie]

What Age did the CX start laying?

. The pure CX were 10 months old. Hatched July 1st laid the next may.


All but three died of old age. I used the rainbow rooster. Bert "the first" died within days of the first egg

 

[daxigait]

Hopefully she shows up in the morning.

She was left out yesterday afternoon. I will most likely, not see my critters in daylight until the weekend, unless I get done early tomorrow.

 

[Chaos18]

. The pure CX were 10 months old. Hatched July 1st laid the next may.


All but three died of old age. I used the rainbow rooster. Bert "the first" died within days of the first egg

You kept them alive through the winter? How many CX did you start with?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: OMG, yes, ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!!

I LOVE sauerkraut!!!!!

Quote: Sure! We can totally do that some time. We can do it on a day and only do one or two, so we are not rushing or racing weather/heat/flies. I have a food dehydrator - I can totally walk you through it.

@Fire Ant Farm BTW - you know those placenta's we were talking about???? They melted into my car, my husband was out there with bleach and qtips trying to make it so the dogs at the border patrol dogs won't hit on my car ^.^ Said it resembled a serial killer clean up.

Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww.....

(Not salvageable?)

- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

@BantyChooksThis one

 

[duluthralphie]

You kept them alive through the winter? How many CX did you start with?

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I kept a couple alive 18 months the f1 cross over 2 years The current Bert and Bertha are almost 2 years also