Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[NotAFarm]

That could be a problem.....

....but then again, think of how good they'll look on a platter on the dinner table!

 

[KYTinpusher]

That could be a problem.....

....but then again, think of how good they'll look on a platter on the dinner table!

And how tasty they will be, too.

Hmmm.... now where did I put that knife?

 

[NotAFarm]

YUM!

 

[RoseMarie1]

Oh yeah, and to think I almost ate him! So glad he escaped that! But I did kill about half a dozen that might have been as good as him. Live and learn.

He is a good one. His attention always seems to be on the pullets - and not just trying to hop on them either. Whenever they are eating or whatever he always seems to be walking around overseeing everything. Sometimes I wonder how he eats enough for worrying about them. And if a fight breaks out he is so quick to step in and break it up. The other day I was gathering eggs and one of the pullets thought I got too close to her I guess and she let out a little squawk. I'm not sure because it happened so fast but I think he ran between my legs to get to her to see what was wrong! LOL Once he saw that she was okay he just walked away. He never challenges me at all. I've never petted him but he still comes up real close to me. He is definitely a keeper!

I'd say he's a keeper to. I sure hope mine tends to his right and protects them and is nice to us as well.

 

[RoseMarie1]

The lawn mower seat cover! I love it! Wish I had thought of that years ago for my old and decrepit John Deere with the cracked seat and all the foam in it getting wet if I left it out by mistake. And...the look of it surely suits my style. I LOVE the repurposed look in my life and on my land...nothing speaks of wisdom more to me than someone taking something they would ordinarily throw away and turning it into something useful, no matter how it looks. Love it.

ME TO Bee! Me to! LOVE repurposing something even when it is not what it's meant to be.

 

[RoseMarie1]

YUM!

lets all go to their house for dinner!

 

[Beekissed]

I really need to get some pictures of my birds. Their colors are really starting to pop. The only real issue is that the roosters in the Camp Freezer-bound coop look so good, I keep thinking I need to keep them!

I agree! I have the hardest time killing roosters of DP breeds because they are so very beautiful...their feathering is so lush, clean and bright that it seems a crime to get it bloody.

 

[Kassaundra]

I agree! I have the hardest time killing roosters of DP breeds because they are so very beautiful...their feathering is so lush, clean and bright that it seems a crime to get it bloody.

I have 4 beautiful boys that I am going to dispatch tomorrow, I agree it is hard w/ all those pretty shiny colorful feathers. It will be a big day for me, the most I have ever done at one time.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Why Bee you're just the poo-head! LOL Okay, a redneck/hillbillly whatever you want to call it confession...

I have an old rundown housetrailer down the road. One year I put a tarp down in one of the bedroom floors and raised bottle goats in there. LOL It worked perfectly, just gathered up the tarp and pulled it out the door. The people that live there now can't even tell goats were raised in their bedroom. - Just kidding! Nobody lives there! hahaha ...would be funny though in a redneck kind of way. hehe If I get all energetic I may raise some youngsters in there this winter and have some pol pullets next spring and see if I can't get some of that crazy money people are spending. A friend told me that in early spring some people are paying $20-25 for a laying pullet! I can't imagine paying that but I'd surely accept their money.

We have a local livestock auction every week and there are plenty of chickens that go through there. I feel kind of bad at the thought of sending birds through there because I know there is the chance of them getting sick. ...but there is money to be made there.

You do have some good ideas. Thank you much!

That wouldn't be a bad thing but I'd want to know where my eggs are! lol How old are your birds now Rose? My Australorps started laying at 19 weeks. I hope enough of mine will lay through the winter that I won't have to buy eggs. If nothing happens, come spring I will have more than enough.

Willow my chickens are 4 months old now. The RIR's are 18 weeks old and the BA's are a few days over 16 weeks.

 

[Beekissed]

I have 4 beautiful boys that I am going to dispatch tomorrow, I agree it is hard w/ all those pretty shiny colorful feathers. It will be a big day for me, the most I have ever done at one time.

I always hate throwing away those beautiful feathers and wish I knew someone who made fishing lures or hat bands and such that could use them. Nothing prettier than rooster feathers...

It's like guys who have those long, lush eye lashes and you think that it's a crime to see those on a guy..why can't us gals have those eye lashes?