NY chicken lover!!!!

[nposluszny]

You see, you are just encouraging me to feed my addiction.......****** chickens are like Lays chips, you can't have just 1...flock

 

[Chicken girl 15]

You see, you are just encouraging me to feed my addiction.......****** chickens are like Lays chips, you can't have just 1...flock

I would never.

just remember, at some point with all the adding the has to be some subtracting as well.

 

[dcba flock]

I would never.

just remember, at some point with all the adding the has to be some subtracting as well.

I'm subtracting 10 + today to a friend and looking for more to add that's a problem...

 

[Gramma Chick]

You see, you are just encouraging me to feed my addiction.......****** chickens are like Lays chips, you can't have just 1...flock

previous question :What i call 1st years always lay in the winter with out light

 

[Beer can]

Are you taking my cx in spring? If so do you by chance have any interesting pullets to cross to my EE boys? Those buggers are huge and need a tough girl to be safe with them.

I would like to get the cx sooner hopefully so you don't have to feed them and I know I got them. Hope they lay decent, some do some don't, some lay double yolkers which isn't good for hatching. I won't hatch anything till spring though.
As far xtra pullets I culled all naked nexks but the three pullets I plan on breeding. And the giant's I only hatced three so only five of them for breeding.
I do have two silkie/giant crosses I don't need, one fm and one not. They are already laying everyday. They're not real big though, maybe they will get bigger. Have a few older EEs hens I don't need, they're probably 4yrs old now though. And two EE/welsummer crosses I don't need either that hatched the yr before, be two this spring. The EEs haven't been laying since the days got shorter, did molt recently also. They usually lay pretty good, not hard to tell who fills the egg basket. One of them was laying dark olive.
I was hoping the wellie crosses was going to lay dark olive but they're more a brown/olive green.

 

[Beer can]

previous question :What i call 1st years always lay in the winter with out light

X2, mine always have. Start in winter and continue through with no supplemental lights.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I would like to get the cx sooner hopefully so you don't have to feed them and I know I got them. Hope they lay decent, some do some don't, some lay double yolkers which isn't good for hatching. I won't hatch anything till spring though.
As far xtra pullets I culled all naked nexks but the three pullets I plan on breeding. And the giant's I only hatced three so only five of them for breeding.
I do have two silkie/giant crosses I don't need, one fm and one not. They are already laying everyday. They're not real big though, maybe they will get bigger. Have a few older EEs hens I don't need, they're probably 4yrs old now though. And two EE/welsummer crosses I don't need either that hatched the yr before, be two this spring. The EEs haven't been laying since the days got shorter, did molt recently also. They usually lay pretty good, not hard to tell who fills the egg basket. One of them was laying dark olive.
I was hoping the wellie crosses was going to lay dark olive but they're more a brown/olive green.

I was just joking about trading. The cx are yours. They are doing good. They jump in and out of the coop window, up and down from the roost and the feed trough. I plan on using my gigantor gold spitzhauben/ ba girls to my EE boys. I like the temper of girls and the size of the boys so I'm going to try and get the best of both.

 

[Beer can]

I was just joking about trading. The cx are yours. They are doing good. They jump in and out of the coop window, up and down from the roost and the feed trough. I plan on using my gigantor gold spitzhauben/ ba girls to my EE boys. I like the temper of girls and the size of the boys so I'm going to try and get the best of both.

I hope to cull all but the giant's and the nakeds this winter, just know we are going to miss the green eggs. And the giant/silkie project doesn't interest me anymore they'll need to go also, my brother might want them they are kinda cute.
I'll be hatching as many as I can of the giant's in the spring and mainly want cockerels for capons, if your interested in any of the pullets let me know, they are great winter layers of big brown eggs, averaged 100grams.
Will be hatching naked necks also. If not liking the naked part I'm sure I'll hatch some fully feathered with the one's crossed with the CX's, and I won't want them for further breeding.
The turkens are supposed to lay great, and make good meat birds. I processed ten of the fifteen, culled the pullets with big bowties, they were small but tasty, the cockerels were big and very meaty, tender and tasty for a dual purpose.

 

[Beer can]

@Chicken girl 15 what I'm hoping to accomplish with a cx turken cross is a faster growing meat bird than the turken itself even though they do pretty good by themselves. A few are doing a dark cornish/turken cross with good results. Some are doing cx/turken cross with great results also.
When I saw these pics, both cx/turken I thought I just have to try that!

 

[Beer can]

Oh my YES!!! It's like eating white chocolate and dark chocolate. It's so worth the extra effort. However if you already have a lot on your schedule be cautious. It requires a lot of chickens to stock a freezer. There are options though. You could do all the work from day old to freezer. You could raise them and pay someone to process. Or you could find someone to do all the work for you. I chose to raise mine and process. I'm also getting my paperwork in order to open my farm to processing. At this point our farm is our livelihood.

Let us know what you need to do to process for sale yourself. Something I plan on doing 5+yrs from now, with the giant capons.
There is a grass fed beef farm near me in Trout Creek (Tompkins) that does thier own beef processing. They held a seminar with Cornell at their farm for other beef farmers that might want to get into it and cut out the middle men for more profit. Read about it in the Tri-town-news a few yrs back.