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

[LovinMyPeeps]

This is turnin' into one crazy party there Nat... and well Nat lives just East of Nowhere... somewhere on the otherside of EBF Nebraska... or maybe it was Hell? Was it take a left turn at hell? I know that the earth is flat, but I'm not great with directions...

 

[sonew123]

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LOL yup in the middle of no where!!!

 

[sonew123]

ok back to the meaties!

Mine are 3 weeks old yesterday and good grief they stank!!!!! getting so big fast too-dang scale-wish it would get here. I already see a difference in some-half are larger than others-so I can see I will process the biggest 15 Oct 3rd and keep the other 10-11 for another few weeks

I still have all original 26-so far so good and that second bag of food is dissappearing fast..LOL During the day they free range-at least they are let out to go out but I dont think they do considering the amount of poop and stank in my huge walk in coop! dang it! they are wranking it up! I put them in their wire bottom cages at night with food and water -this way at night they can poop and it goes in trays so I carry the trays out and dump into compost piles...

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

lol I only have 5 one and a half week olds in that big 10X10 tractor and still have to move it every day because of how gross they are.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG SHUT UP!!! your thinking of coming? Im gunna cry!!!! KATY

Heres the read read the first post carefully it has all info you will need https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=353431


OMG OMG OMG If you come Im going to faint I laready have Brindle coming from TX-shes driving here with Dh and that is giving me heart palpatations already--Ill be in heaven to have all my bestest BYC buddies here!

ok see . . . that's why I didn't tell you yet I doubt it's even feasible, we were just in the wondering stage!

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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Nebraska? I thought she was in New York? oh ha ha get it, I'm a dummy.

Nope sonew sorry, Our annual Octoberfest is that saturday, band is already hired and pig paid for. Maybe next year though, i was getting excited for a minute there! Well until you said porta potty, but we have a year to hammer that out

 

[sonew123]

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Nebraska? I thought she was in New York? oh ha ha get it, I'm a dummy.

Nope sonew sorry, Our annual Octoberfest is that saturday, band is already hired and pig paid for. Maybe next year though, i was getting excited for a minute there! Well until you said porta potty, but we have a year to hammer that out

ok port a pot for the open public ( real toilets for you LOL)

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

xoxoxo thank you dear! next year is a big maybe! this year I will have 100 people at my house that weekend

 

[sonew123]

still no scale!!! If I had to guess they are all over 1lb if not 2??
all 26 still alive and thriving-and stanky! I even cleaned out there pen last night and Bleah...today

 

[stanglover2001]

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Good for you! Are you butchering by yourself? Me and the DH had 26, 4 died because from lack of water on my part (solution was put more bowls of water out, so still learning) and now all I have is 3 left for tomorrow morning. I did 5 today by myself and 3 monday by myself, I'm le tired