Hello everyone,
We started on our chicken adventure earlier this year. We got two batches of chicks from neighbors and it has been quite and adventure. We got our first batch of 7 chicks (dom/dom crosses) at the beginning of May and we got our second batch of 17 chicks (leghorn/leghorn crosses) in the middle of July. We will be getting a batch of 30 Buff Orpingtons from Murray MacMurray at the end of this month. We slaughtered our first leghorn roo this past Saturday, and had him for dinner last night. He was scrawny with only just enough meat on him for the 5 adults in the family but the meat was tasty and had a lot of fat in it. I have 7 more leghorn roos to slaughter over the next month or so. In our laying flock we have 9 leghorn/leghorn cross hens, 3 pure dom hens, 2 dom/buff orps hens, 1 dom/RI red hen and a dom/RI red roo we call General Tso.
Looking forward to being part of the community.
Thanks,
Rae
We started on our chicken adventure earlier this year. We got two batches of chicks from neighbors and it has been quite and adventure. We got our first batch of 7 chicks (dom/dom crosses) at the beginning of May and we got our second batch of 17 chicks (leghorn/leghorn crosses) in the middle of July. We will be getting a batch of 30 Buff Orpingtons from Murray MacMurray at the end of this month. We slaughtered our first leghorn roo this past Saturday, and had him for dinner last night. He was scrawny with only just enough meat on him for the 5 adults in the family but the meat was tasty and had a lot of fat in it. I have 7 more leghorn roos to slaughter over the next month or so. In our laying flock we have 9 leghorn/leghorn cross hens, 3 pure dom hens, 2 dom/buff orps hens, 1 dom/RI red hen and a dom/RI red roo we call General Tso.
Looking forward to being part of the community.
Thanks,
Rae