my first meaties raising experience-with pictures now 1st post:-)

[sonew123]

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I will and thank you so much for that fabulous recipe

 

[sonew123]

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crazy??? not really-I have been prepping for this for 4 months! whatever happens happens hahaha--still wish you could come have a great Sat night at ur party too...

 

[sonew123]

ok folks the hours are getting counted down-I think I will do some today if my partners in crime will help-they have been traveling ALL night to get here today to set up.

Yesterday the rains finally stopped-after 5 straight days of downpours-my meaties...uh hmmm..."muddies" were so happy when I came doen with a fresh bail of dry hay. I spread it all out for them and they couldnt jump on it fast enough-plenty of food and water and they are heaven-or they will be shortly-hehe. down to 23 of them and they will be just shy of 8 weeks. I did have a growth problem and you remeber my feed store ran out of their regular food and I had to give all my birds layer pellets for the week:-( SO I did not see any growth at all with these guys:-( Yesterday though when I got my fresh feed-I couldnt rip open the bag fast enough to feed them..They went to town on the high protein crumbles-hope it helped add a tiny bit back into them??? We'll see if we butcher some today of course Ill have photos

 

[Thundrr-Chicken]

for those of us following your thread from afar... i sure hope you take lots of pictures of your meaties and lots of pictures of your event so we can continue to live vicariously through you lol

 

[sonew123]

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haha I wil for sure-thanks for hanging out with my threads-this was posted for me to reference to if there ever is a next time as DH has sworn off meaties for good because of all we've been dealing with -with them-more than we bargained for but Im glad I did it---I have a friend coming to chickenstock who is bringing his huge wizzbang-( just found that out a few minutes ago) so Im holding off until Sunday

 

[Thundrr-Chicken]

i used a friend's whizbang 2 weekends ago.... worked just like you see online... its amazing

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

have a great day my love!!!!

 

[mstricer]

I hope everything goes well for you Nat.

 

[sonew123]

they are all done!!!!

Thank goodness for Purplechicken for helping and teaching-He got people to jump in that I never thought would even watch!

We did 13 early on and then since I had the feather plucker here I asked if we could just do the rest-so we gathered another 6 people and did the rest-10 birds took us 20 minutes!!!! they are all resting in my dh truck resting as I ran out of bags to put them in!! moron...LOL I took photos and will post after I recoup from thsi weekend-ps chickenstock was awesome!!!!

 

[sonew123]

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thank you my hunny-it was great! you HAVE to come to the next one!!!

I have to give credit to my helpers or actually -doers!!!

Davy meadow farm ( Gavin) who brought his amazing huge whizbanger! Love you and so great seeing you again!!!

Purplechicken who took the lead and whipped right throught them-hope your finger heals quickly.love yah!!

Deanners Dh better known as "Thecheckbook" awesome job

John-Brindles Hubbie who is just the greatest guy-just cleaned up the mess and made it look like it never took place-and gutted a bunch of birds to boot!

Mame1616 who also learned to gut and clean

Brindle who joined in and helped clean out too! I cant remember who else jumped in but it drew a crowd and all watched-some in horror-some in excitement-some just of curiosity!!! haha

Thank you everyone-I will never ask you guys to help with meaties again! what a learning expereince!--next year freedom rangers-I hope