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[Buster52]

Off all week this week. DW and I both took vacation to do some farming. Getting ready for our first batch of 100 broilers for the farmers market. Anybody else doing meat birds this year?

 

[Sooner]

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But there is another farm area under Services. That's where folks put auctions and such. Try there. At least then it will be seen by the right people.

That is where they list the Muskogee auction.

 

[Sooner]

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Will you sell them live or butchered?

I think when I am ready I will do late summer or fall, what are the draw backs to that idea? My thought is that it would be cooler when butchering came around.

 

[Buster52]

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Will you sell them live or butchered?

I think when I am ready I will do late summer or fall, what are the draw backs to that idea? My thought is that it would be cooler when butchering came around.

I will sell them butchered. I have a friend who does spring and fall because he's afraid the summer is too hot for meaties. He knows what he's doing so you are in good company.

 

[nnbreeder]

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Will you sell them live or butchered?

I think when I am ready I will do late summer or fall, what are the draw backs to that idea? My thought is that it would be cooler when butchering came around.

Broilers have the best rate of gain and feed conversion when the temps are in the 70 deg range if that helps any. Really cold or hot and believe it or not the NN out performs them but it takes just a tad longer to get them to weight.

That is why I would like to do a NN x Malay to boost the size of the finished product and keep the heat/cold tolerance of the NNs.

 

[Sooner]

I wish you were at my farmers market! I would be finding you. I am now sad that I could of actually went to the farmers market today if I had remembered!

 

[Sooner]

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Will you sell them live or butchered?

I think when I am ready I will do late summer or fall, what are the draw backs to that idea? My thought is that it would be cooler when butchering came around.

Broilers have the best rate of gain and feed conversion when the temps are in the 70 deg range if that helps any. Really cold or hot and believe it or not the NN out performs them but it takes just a tad longer to get them to weight.

That is why I would like to do a NN x Malay to boost the size of the finished product and keep the heat/cold tolerance of the NNs.

How often do you guys butcher Les?

Oh the cochin roo is alot better, have him outside in a small cage & due to treating the coop I put his girl in with him & he instantly tried to mount her. LOL.

 

[Buster52]

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Will you sell them live or butchered?

I think when I am ready I will do late summer or fall, what are the draw backs to that idea? My thought is that it would be cooler when butchering came around.

Broilers have the best rate of gain and feed conversion when the temps are in the 70 deg range if that helps any. Really cold or hot and believe it or not the NN out performs them but it takes just a tad longer to get them to weight.

That is why I would like to do a NN x Malay to boost the size of the finished product and keep the heat/cold tolerance of the NNs.

You could market them Poulet Cou Nu Malay and make a mint.

 

[nnbreeder]

I don't eat chicken because to save money it was served way too much growing up. But I can look at a hog or beef calf and imagine how it tastes! I love grass fed beef but it often has a flavor that many don't like, naturally lean too.

With just Teva and I in the house it would take a long time to use a quarter. When the kids were at home we raised a hog and every year to put in the freezer, and split a beef with her mom.

 

[Buster52]

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I'm counting on local folks feeling the same way.