Poultry Peanuts? Explain for me please. If your order isn't big enough they send spare chickies? That would be disastrous for people like me!
Ideal Poultry Peanuts!
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If you don't want packing peanuts added for warmth, you need to specify that when you order - Ideal Poulty will let you do that. I don't know if other hatcheries will - and order at a time when it would safe (warm enough) to ship your wanted chicks only, without the packing peanuts.
If you don't want packing peanuts added for warmth, you need to specify that when you order - Ideal Poulty will let you do that. I don't know if other hatcheries will - and order at a time when it would safe (warm enough) to ship your wanted chicks only, without the packing peanuts.
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They add extra chicks (usually roosters) for warmth when shipping. Like gritsar says, some hatcheries will let you opt out of the packing peanuts.
They add extra chicks (usually roosters) for warmth when shipping. Like gritsar says, some hatcheries will let you opt out of the packing peanuts.
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Leghorn roosters are often given away free because it takes feed to raise them and they never really get to a size or proportions most people expect for eating. A leghorn carcass will always look more like a rubber chicken than a broiler cross, it is just how they are built.
We butcher non-broiler-cross cull birds as young as 8-10 weeks, but they will be small with no appreciable breast meat. So we cook two where one 5week old broiler would have served.
We more often go to 20 weeks, but we have them on pasture to reduce feed costs and this can slow rate of growth.
We tend to use such birds in long cooked dishes or soup, etc. They just don't look as we are used to when roasted. But they are still VERY tasty.
If you have no use for the packing peanuts and are of the frame of mind that they have served their purpose already, you could cull them immediately to not waste feed on them. I have known people to do this, as it is often not cost effective to raise such birds for meat on purchased feed. Just make it quick and as humane as possible for them if you decide on this route.
It is hard to do, as chicks are so cute and full of personality.
Leghorn roosters are often given away free because it takes feed to raise them and they never really get to a size or proportions most people expect for eating. A leghorn carcass will always look more like a rubber chicken than a broiler cross, it is just how they are built.
We butcher non-broiler-cross cull birds as young as 8-10 weeks, but they will be small with no appreciable breast meat. So we cook two where one 5week old broiler would have served.
We more often go to 20 weeks, but we have them on pasture to reduce feed costs and this can slow rate of growth.
We tend to use such birds in long cooked dishes or soup, etc. They just don't look as we are used to when roasted. But they are still VERY tasty.
If you have no use for the packing peanuts and are of the frame of mind that they have served their purpose already, you could cull them immediately to not waste feed on them. I have known people to do this, as it is often not cost effective to raise such birds for meat on purchased feed. Just make it quick and as humane as possible for them if you decide on this route.
It is hard to do, as chicks are so cute and full of personality.
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I can almost guarantee that you are right...as I mentioned in earlier posts. Ideal has put those "peaunts" in my order several times. Each time they turned out to be White Leghorn roos...The last time they were so nice and "giving" they put 13 extra of them in my box!!! Some may like the extra birds but I have never thought it was amusing. It was the last time I ordered from them.
I can almost guarantee that you are right...as I mentioned in earlier posts. Ideal has put those "peaunts" in my order several times. Each time they turned out to be White Leghorn roos...The last time they were so nice and "giving" they put 13 extra of them in my box!!! Some may like the extra birds but I have never thought it was amusing. It was the last time I ordered from them.
The few times I have ordered hatchery birds I just get the full allotment of 25 and try out a few that you may have considered before. Just get pullets and you can always sell young pullets without any trouble if you decide you don't want them.
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They don't do it to be amusing, they do it for warmth so that YOUR chickies will arrive alive.
They don't do it to be amusing, they do it for warmth so that YOUR chickies will arrive alive.
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I am actually considering doing this in the spring, altho my limit (in the city) is only 6! hehe, the only problem would be letting go of all of the ones I sell, I get too attached. I prolly wouldn't go with a full 25 tho.
I am actually considering doing this in the spring, altho my limit (in the city) is only 6! hehe, the only problem would be letting go of all of the ones I sell, I get too attached. I prolly wouldn't go with a full 25 tho.
Only problem with getting less than 25 is they will more than likely still put some packing peanuts in regardless of how warm it is. With the extra charges for getting less chicks you end up paying the same price for less pullets.
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