NY chicken lover!!!!

[boskelli1571]

Awesome article! Thanks for the link!! I'm surprised that the Sandhill birds were not consistently closer to SOP. Glad u are happy with your Sussex and the JGs are doing well tho.

Thanks for info on ur research of decent breeds for capons. I had forgotten about the NNs for this. It would be interesting to hatch out a handful each of bresse, NN, and perhaps a couple other breeds together. Feed them all the same way, caponize the boys & then pasture them to maturity, bring them in for last couple weeks for high fat finishing, process and then have a cookout to have a bunch of friends taste test the different breeds. Maybe have a standard store bought bird there to compare as well. The pullets can be sold off as layers to offset the cost of initial eggs & feed. We taste tested a Cemani cull rooster next to a more common layer breed rooster and there was definately a difference in the taste & texture of the meat. So hard to really know until you try it.

Looks like your next project !!!

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I had never heard of the Cemani until now. Wow they are pretty. Please let me know how they taste . Says they only lay a handful year so not much good there buy if they taste good I'm willing to try.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

I read this too. I don't see any possibility of this working in America. People are too disassociated with their food and don't know there are better tasting chickens out there! I have bielfelders...have yet to taste one. But, they are beautiful birds and my roosters are getting huge! 

How did the Cemani taste?

The cemani had a finer grain to the meat and a slightly sweeter taste. Quite delicious.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Looks like your next project !!!

I need another project like I need another hole in my head. But who doesn't need an extra hole in their head?

 

[Chicken girl 15]

They just might be added to my list of spring finds. A new hole in the head is always fun, unless your the one I suckered into helping me. There have been many long night and 2nd dinners because of ideas I have. I enjoy building stuff but never seem to be tall enough to do it alone.

 

[rancher hicks]

I'll get back and read what I've missed but right now I'm just so, well you know. I have a hen who has sat on eggs and yesterday I heard peeping and this am I checked and not chick. She only had one egg left that was good.

I came home from school and no egg, no chick, nothing. No sign of an egg at all! I can't stand it. The only thing I can figure is a squirrel got in there and took the egg.

Now I have been seeing digging around the base of the run. Near the boards at the bottom. I figured a mouse/ mole and I have been setting traps but caught nothing.

I will be home tomorrow and will be digging around the base of the run with a pick or hoe.

I just can't stand that that egg and chick are gone. that poor hen has sat all this time for nothing. I think it's her second time sitting too. She was in another nest on eggs. She has been good about staying on these eggs. I have been taking a new egg every now and then.

I'm just so upset I want to burn ever tree down and get any squirrels. Dig ever hole and get every mouse/mole or whatever.

I want to smash something I'm so mad.

 

[tao chick]

Good luck finding the chick or the culprit for its disappearance, Rancher.

I'm waiting impatiently for my eggs to hatch. One week to go. I'm about to separate out the cockerels from the big coop. They're only 7 weeks, but the sparring has begun and the half crowing. I'm putting up a craigslist listing this weekend. I only have one pullet I want to sell, so I might be able to sell a pair then grow the rest out for the freezer. A third pullet is close to laying. She was considering the nest options this morning. I look forward to getting 3 eggs a day instead of 2. My chicken math is going well. I have 18 chickens, with a goal of selling or eating 5 to 7 of them. I have 8 eggs in the bator, with a goal of setting a dozen in October to supplement my spring processing and egg production. What was going to be 3 hens, then maybe 5, then 10, is looking like a goal of 16 hens and roosters. The coop is 90 square feet of floor space, four large nest boxes, and room for more, and greater than 30 linear feet of roosts. They'll be cooped a lot this winter, so hopefully that's enough space for the flock of whatever number I have at that point.

I got some fabric for aprons today. My goal is to fix my father's curtains and then make a dozen or so aprons. All I have to do is clean my sewing room. Hah.

 

[akaruby]

I'll get back and read what I've missed but right now I'm just so, well you know. I have a hen who has sat on eggs and yesterday I heard peeping and this am I checked and not chick. She only had one egg left that was good.

I came home from school and no egg, no chick, nothing. No sign of an egg at all! I can't stand it. The only thing I can figure is a squirrel got in there and took the egg.

Now I have been seeing digging around the base of the run. Near the boards at the bottom. I figured a mouse/ mole and I have been setting traps but caught nothing.

I will be home tomorrow and will be digging around the base of the run with a pick or hoe.

I just can't stand that that egg and chick are gone. that poor hen has sat all this time for nothing. I think it's her second time sitting too. She was in another nest on eggs. She has been good about staying on these eggs. I have been taking a new egg every now and then.

I'm just so upset I want to burn ever tree down and get any squirrels. Dig ever hole and get every mouse/mole or whatever.

I want to smash something I'm so mad.

A friend of mine had a snake she found that was taking eggs. Snakes may not leave any signs like a cracked shell or anything. Opossums and crows could also be a culprit but I'd think they would leave a sign.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

My 3 layers have gone on strike! ! Not even 1 egg today.

 

[tao chick]

My 3 layers have gone on strike! ! Not even 1 egg today.

My two took last Sunday off.