Minnesota!

[KlopKlop]

Cornish X and ten weeks old.

On of my 9 weeks old CX was 8lbs after we gutted it and took the wing tips and neck off.

I kept 10 back and will do them around 11 weeks. Fingers crossed it cools off a little

 

[duluthralphie]

On of my 9 weeks old CX was 8lbs after we gutted it and took the wing tips and neck off.

I kept 10 back and will do them around 11 weeks. Fingers crossed it cools off a little

9 weeks 8 lbs not bad,.. keep 5 of the ten back and go for 15 weeks, The larger they are the better they taste roasted/baked etc.. they are juicier and make left overs for a week!

Just make sure you let them rest 3 days before freezing or eating them. I tried one fresh, my first batch, what a mistake!

 

[duluthralphie]

Where does orange fit with this group? When I bought my acreage I was in need of a tractor and my father passed on to me an AC WD45 that he bought from my grandfathers estate. I'm the 4th generation owner of it

Orange tractors are a mid range tractor, You have red on the top, then your orange followed by your blue or grey and then on the bottom you have your green. It is simple to remember, ROGG, or ROBG

Remembering ROGG as in a person asking for more grog after one too many,, or ROB G,, who was RobRoy's second cousin.

 

[scandiafowl]

9 weeks 8 lbs not bad,.. keep 5 of the ten back and go for 15 weeks,  The larger they are the better they taste roasted/baked etc.. they are juicier and make left overs for a week!

Just make sure you let them rest 3 days before freezing or eating them.  I tried one fresh, my first batch, what a mistake!

Now I'm curious, why wait? We ate Sunshine last night.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Scandia. Beautiful roast chicken. You served your sunshine well and celebrated his life with a beautiful meal. Letting the meat "rest" or "age" helps remove some of the stiffness to the meat. Makes for a more tender meal.

Some will even set the carcass in buttermilk to help thAt process along.

Holm is this your new set up?! Holy buckets! Nice! Maybe things happen for a reason... Ps nice tractor too.

Rhett's you need to try. Retrievers are especially easy to train. Jasmine was 4-5 years old when we trained her. She was very birdie on the chicks when we brought them home. As a hunting lab. Then as the birds grew we'd take her on the leash and bring our calmest chicken face to face with her. If she'd even lick them ( usually shaking nervously) yank leash or swat nose with finger. Never scream no. Low firm collected stern no. Keep working with him/her until you can watch the retriever not even want to look at the chicken you bring to him. When they're outside early on with the birds still keep eye on the situation and add a firm no to any sideways glance. We had Jasmine so she didn't even want to step on the deck if the birds were already there. But that's the way it's gotta be.

We trusted her implicitly with our flock at the end. I don't know much about training with cats.

 

[duluthralphie]

Scandia. Beautiful roast chicken. You served your sunshine well and celebrated his life with a beautiful meal. Letting the meat "rest" or "age" helps remove some of the stiffness to the meat. Makes for a more tender meal.

Some will even set the carcass in buttermilk to help thAt process along.

Holm is this your new set up?! Holy buckets! Nice! Maybe things happen for a reason... Ps nice tractor too.

Rhett's you need to try. Retrievers are especially easy to train. Jasmine was 4-5 years old when we trained her. She was very birdie on the chicks when we brought them home. As a hunting lab. Then as the birds grew we'd take her on the leash and bring our calmest chicken face to face with her. If she'd even lick them ( usually shaking nervously) yank leash or swat nose with finger. Never scream no. Low firm collected stern no. Keep working with him/her until you can watch the retriever not even want to look at the chicken you bring to him. When they're outside early on with the birds still keep eye on the situation and add a firm no to any sideways glance. We had Jasmine so she didn't even want to step on the deck if the birds were already there. But that's the way it's gotta be.

We trusted her implicitly with our flock at the end. I don't know much about training with cats.

X2 on the resting, once rigor mortis has passed I have heard they are edible. It makes sense, you age beef, venison and most meats, it makes sense with chickens. I know my experiences mean little but the one we ate immediately after processing was tough and stringy.

I think training of a cat is done with a bag, a rock and a deep river,........ (ducking from the barrage of cat lovers anger).....


BC I have never heard of milk for chickens but I do use it on fresh caught fish, it really makes them taste better, especially salt water fish.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

did you ever find that fancy mayonnaise pizza sandwich? It did sound delicious....

No. Never did. Came in here this morning and now my coffee disappeared while I read these posts....

BR, do you have a dog or cat with access to said office, therefore, afore mentioned 'sammie'?

Could be. We have both. My cat is feral and only will allow us to pet it in the AM and the dog is to lazy to get out of bed and doesn't like coffee. Hummm....

My "new" coop. It holds 100+ chickens and has a door between 2 sides.








This is the old run. We fenced in the whole woods around the coop so the new run is big.


This is the old run after we took the green to it. That green is my grandpas OLD lawn mower. I don't know if we could have got the job done with a red

AWESOME!!!!!! Congradulations! So glad it all turned out!

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Appreciate the support.

Sunshine turned out to be nine pounds. We couldn't believe it and double checked three scales.

We'll be eating him for a few days!

Can chickens breed with turkeys??

 

[Cluckies]

I believe so, I think they are called a Turken.

 

[Cluckies]

I have to get outside. I can't believe you guys are trying to distract me from doing my work!