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[mlm Mike]

Quote: Here they do a lot more than just meat birds.

 

[kajira]

Before you randomly go buy things at the auctions here, understand what you are getting. If they allow dual purpose birds, or if they are the meat birds, intending to be butchered by 12 weeks at the latest. If you don't intend to butcher, I suggest you maybe NOT buy birds at the auction, because that's what most 4h clubs are for. Raising a product to eat, or to put into your livestock to produce better offspring down the road.

However, for chickens, they usually just order large batches from an online hatchery, for butchering birds, and just have the kids raise them, and will make arrangements to butcher the birds between 8-14 weeks if people dont' have the stomach for it.

My daughter's going to be practicing with a non-meat bird, but she is too young to auction it off. (or one of her goats. or both.) Once she qualifies for auctioning, she has to use their required animals, and you have to order the chickens through the local A and M via 4h ordering the birds for you.

If I was you, I wouldn't waste your money.

 

[casportpony]

Dang, I just looked at some of the sale prices that someone posted for goats, sheep, and cattle!


-Kathy

yeah...... exactly. I dont know how or why youd spend money here, especially on chickens.

They make you raise meat birds, that are to be butchered by 10 weeks.... so if you do buy at these auctions, you're supposed to take the birds home and butcher them. Not try to keep them for your flocks.

Nothing other than meat birds at the auction? If so, runt probably shouldn't buy any.

-Kathy

 

[kajira]

Here they do a lot more than just meat birds.

You're lucky. the 4h clubs were we've lived before, in big cities, had a lot more options, including birds just for "show" like silkies or cochins or polish crested.

down here, no one would support that. We live in a very rural area, and people just want food.

 

[kajira]

Nothing other than meat birds at the auction? If so, runt probably shouldn't buy any.

-Kathy

At ours, there's no show birds. People down here only want food quality animals.

It's why if I get my silkie flock off the ground, and her easter eggers, I've got tons of people who'd want them, because no one here locally has any. No one wants show birds.

 

[casportpony]

 

Dang, I just looked at some of the sale prices that someone posted for goats, sheep, and cattle!


-Kathy

yeah...... exactly. I dont know how or why youd spend money here, especially on chickens.

They make you raise meat birds, that are to be butchered by 10 weeks.... so if you do buy at these auctions, you're supposed to take the birds home and butcher them. Not try to keep them for your flocks.

Here they do a lot more than just meat birds.

I think some of the clubs in CA do more than meat birds.

-Kathy

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I believe the meat thing must be local to you. 4-H does much more than livestock for food. Over half 4-H members are from Urban and Suburban areas.

 

[kajira]

I think some of the clubs in CA do more than meat birds.

-Kathy

Big city 4h clubs usually have more options, than the rural ones that actually are pretty much only strictly food-raising clubs.
inside city limits here, you can have 4 hens only.... but the 4h clubs make you purchase a minimum of 25 birds, and then they have to find homes for the birds until butchering age, for people who live within city limits.

It seems like a mess but it's how they've been doing it for years here.

 

[casportpony]

@Birdrain92, I know you're in college now, but when you were in 4h, what types of chickens were at the 4h auctions you went to?

-Kathy

 

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