NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

@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!

holy smokes! With birds that size I would only need 1for a meal.. if your project works my husband just might be interested in being a customer. I can keep chicks alive and thriving all through life. However the hatching part is hard for me. Either I have horrible luck or my incubators need replaced. Either way if my girls don't go broody I have to get a friend of mine to incubate for me.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

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.

so far it's all in Greek to me but I have a ton of information that I'm going to have my boss explain to me. So far all I know is there are at least 2 people per year that have to come inspect my farm. Everything from the cleanliness of my barn and processing area all the way to the temperature of my fridge/ freezer and sharpness of my knifes.. There are diseases they have to check my soil and birds for. Mostly it's all to cover me insurance wise but sadly it also means what I do is easier for the government to track.

 

[lbenedict15]

Anyone kinda/sorta near me that will have white or brown leghorn/hybrid eggs in the new year? I had about 10, but they've been dying off the last two years with EYP as they are all over 4 years old and were heavy layers. 

My brown leghorn is 6 years old and going strong, but the whites don't seem to do as well - and the brown was/is a hatchery bird!

In other news, my newbie nekkid necks are laying pretty well even with the change of seasons - the older biddies of course are on hiatus.  

I have a brown leghorn rooster, hatchery stock, that I would consider breeding, but I lack leghorn hens. He also hasn't figured out how to be a boy yet. I may even consider rehoming him, since I don't plan on using him in my breeding. He was a mistake, he was supposed to be a she!

 

[featherz]

I have a brown leghorn rooster, hatchery stock, that I would consider breeding, but I lack leghorn hens. He also hasn't figured out how to be a boy yet. I may even consider rehoming him, since I don't plan on using him in my breeding. He was a mistake, he was supposed to be a she!

Aww, he's pretty!! I don't need any more roos right now unfortunately. Already have my gimpy EE (he was a special needs egg) and my NN roo. I have only one brown leghorn girl out of 40 others plus one white that's probably not even laying- poor girls burn out so fast..

 

[lbenedict15]

I have heard that abut leghorn hens. I purchased two pullets this past spring, in hopes I could fool my parents into eating "store bought" eggs as they refuse to eat the ones my ladies produce. No clue why, I guess they aren't clean enough haha. I lost the one girl early on, and Maui turned out to be a rooster. Opps! He is a beautiful boy. Very quiet amd docile. He used to be extremely flighty, but ever since he was attacked by my other rooster for alpha, and I had to bring him in for some TLC, he has been a snuggler ever since.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

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.

I have 2 nns that lay big green eggs. My original nn was an nn/ee (Araucana) and one of her daughters came out just like her and they both lay green eggs. I heard that nn's were very tasty and more moist. Mine have big bow tie as well.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hes a Pretty boy

 

[Chicken girl 15]

@Beer can

thats the best shot I could get of her. Those girls are busy let me tell ya. They are friendly and love being held.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

can any of you identify that breed.

 

[dcba flock]

can any of you identify that breed.

Is this a quiz...? Haha I would guess Easter Egger...? Unless it's multiple choice