NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Hello folks! I have not been on in quite some time. I hope all is well with every one! I thought you guys might be a good resource for this question......Does anyone know of any GMO free chicken feed(non gmo project would be great!) in the Albany area? Happy new year!!!!

Thanks, Ginny

 

[rancher hicks]

Eggs and meat. They are laying at six weeks of age, an egg a day, and they are also ready to be butchered at that time. They take about 17 days to hatch instead of 21 like chickens.

There can't be much meat on them, right? What size eggs do they lay? You got pics? Do they brood or do you have to incubate all the time? What about housing? What about cooking and eating?

 

[Beer can]

You see quail and eggs a lot on food network. The eggs look awesome, like miniature multicolored dinosaur eggs.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Sarah & Pyxis,

Congrats on your successful hatches! I hope mine goes well next week!

-Christina in Caz

X 2 Pictures ?

 

[Gramma Chick]

Any one see the News about
Urban Coyotes ? They are starting to show up in major cities .
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...-animals-science-chicago-cities-urban-nation/

 

[Pyxis]

There can't be much meat on them, right?  What size eggs do they lay?  You got pics?  Do they brood or do you have to incubate all the time?  What about housing?  What about cooking and eating?  

I raise jumbos, so my adult breeders, when butchered, would be just enough meat for one person's meal. The eggs are actually pretty good size especially considering the size of the birds, and are the size of a bantam chicken egg. Plus they look really neat, like beer can said They're considered a delicacy. I'll get some pictures for you. They've been domesticated for so long that the brooding trait has been all but eradicated from them, so you usually have to hatch. Sometimes rarely you get one that's broody. You can use a bantam chicken to hatch them though, something like an OEGB or D'Uccle would be perfect for that.

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

I raise jumbos, so my adult breeders, when butchered, would be just enough meat for one person's meal. The eggs are actually pretty good size especially considering the size of the birds, and are the size of a bantam chicken egg. Plus they look really neat, like beer can said They're considered a delicacy. I'll get some pictures for you. They've been domesticated for so long that the brooding trait has been all but eradicated from them, so you usually have to hatch. Sometimes rarely you get one that's broody. You can use a bantam chicken to hatch them though, something like an OEGB or D'Uccle would be perfect for that.

Pyxis do you have to cage them or can you free range them like chickens? I really want some but hope I don't have to cage them.

 

[Metella]

Lapeiran ...

I ask about non-GMO all the time and am just told to buy organic ... when I ask again - they say it can't be labeled organic if has GMO - while that is kinda true - we all know about cross contamination - especially in grains/corns .... so I am very disappointed in this answer - it is not thought out and lacking for me - who wants NON GMO well over organic .....

Blue Seal has a nice organic feed - but I am hesitate to pay so much more for it - when I had no assurances it is what I really want.

I hope others pitch in on this discussion and at least ask their feed store ....

Meanwhile - I did a test patch of amaranth last year - it came up well - and with bit stems I just cut off and hung upside down ... if THOSE seeds do well - I am going to try to grow what I need here - not because I want to - but because no one seems to offer what I want affordably - and I don't mind paying a dollar or so more - but not a ton more !!! when all the machines and processing are the same.

 

[marquisella]

Quote: Many of us sell eggs & chicks. I'm incubating now until June 1st.

 

[marquisella]

Someone I know breeds quail, and they just eat the breast. She says its too much trouble to get the legs, etc. off and there's hardly any meat on those parts anyway, so they don't bother. Just skin & cut off the breasts.