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[CityClucks]

I agree that more people should listen to Osagebill!!

My 50 pound bag of DE is on its way to lasting me a lifetime at the rate I'm going...Poultryand bees scored my bag for me and I have barely made a dent in it. I use it everywhere - the chicken run, the chicken coop, in the chicken feed, in the cat boxes indoors, etc. Someday when I'm Queen of Tulsa I'll change the laws so that people can have unlimited number of chickens in town, then 50 pounds may not last so long... Jack the Man asked me when I'm going to bake bread out of that huge bag of flour in the garage!

 

[al6517]

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I know my bag last a good little while too. but I do use it all over the place, it's like magic wonder dust for chickens LOL, Don't go there Stimpy.

AL

 

[artsyrobin]

Hi guys- soggy and wet here, need to redo the coop roof, and maybe put insulation in? not sure on that, am really losing patience with the dang roo... anybody want one uppity BR roo.... this time he got a face of foot... heard him coming up the ramp after me- and a waited till he jumped at me and nailed him- then felt bad...sigh.... don't want him to end up in the crock pot, but this is really getting old...

never have found pure DE around here, so am using stall dry, but that doesn't work with putting it in feed or anything

 

[poultryand bees]

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Does anyone know what a "Hubbard chick" is? That is the kind you can get from Raymond Jones, the Gideon grower/processor - at his cost, which is 40 cents per chick picked up the day he gets them in (gets them in every 3 weeks) or 50 cents per chick if he keeps them up to a week for you. I don't know how they compare to other broiler type chickens in terms of growth weight, and whether the chickens he was selling at 7-9 lbs were that large because he had to hold them longer than he normally would before processing them or if that is their normal size for processing. Since you are so close to the processing plant, you might check with them to see when and how many you can get - you might not have to get 25 of them like if you ordered them from one of the hatcheries and you wouldn't have to pay any shipping cost.

I saw those black broilers on special also and had to slap my hand to keep from checking to see if they grow any faster/slower than other broilers I have purchased in the past, but which had white feathers.

 

[CityClucks]

Hey Teach, did you hear about the old grandmother's method of treating her chickens when one of them got sick?

She killed another to make chicken soup for the sick one...

(gosh, I probably made you feel even worse with that horrible joke....calling Stimpy!!)

 

[poultryand bees]

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Are you trying to kick the Mt. Dew habit or is the constantly changing weather getting to you? I saw a weather map this morning that had patches of pink (frozen precipitation) over parts of the panhandle this morning.

 

[smfamf]

Roy, this is for you.

It was at the end of the school year, and a kindergarten teacher was receiving gifts from her pupils. The florist's son handed her a gift. She shook it, held it overhead, and said, "I bet I know what it is. Some flowers." "That's right" the boy said, "but how did you know?" "Oh, just a wild guess," she said.

The next pupil was the candy shop owner's daughter. The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said, "I bet I can guess what it is. A box of sweets." "That's right, but how did you know?" asked the girl. "Oh, just a wild guess," said the teacher.

The next gift was from the son of the liquor store owner. The teacher held the package overhead, but it was leaking. She touched a drop of the leakage with her finger and touched it to her tongue. "Is it wine?" she asked. "No," the boy replied, with some excitement.

The teacher repeated the process, taking a larger drop of the leakage to her tongue. "Is it champagne?" she asked. "No," the boy replied, with more excitement. The teacher took one more taste before declaring, "I give up, what is it?" With great glee, the boy replied, "It's a puppy!"



ETA: One of Jordan's quail layed an egg this evening!

 

[TJ's Na-Na]

P&B - He told Bill that the 8-9 pounders were extra large and that he had
gotten behind and ended up growing them a little longer. I got the
impression that "normal" for his processing is in the 6-7 pound range.
But, that 9 pounder that I roasted sure was good !

Ronnie - I don't know what you feed over there, but we've tried to add up
heat for the winter, feed, wormer, any needed meds, on and on. Seems
it would be a lot cheaper to just go pick up a dozen from Jones. We used
to raise and butcher a few here, but sure felt like we were going in the hole.
We'll still butcher the quail, but that's it.

Have a good one !

 

[al6517]

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I have seen them and some spin off designs but just can't justify the high cost, When the time comes for me I will build something else of my own warped thought process.

AL

 

[Buster52]

Hello, peoples. I mentioned a few days ago I was rethinking my flocks and have come to some conclusions.

I am only going to have two breeds of bird on my place. Bourbon Red turkeys and Dark Cornish chickens. The DC will double as my meat birds and my egg birds. We will have enough hens to keep us in as many eggs as we want, then when chicken season comes along we will hatch out 50 or so at a time to run in a tractor, raise up for the table, maybe sell a few at auction.

Those Cornish have surprised me. They have a reputation for being feisty, but that hasn't been the case at all. Maybe the hatcheries bred all that out of them. And they are excellent excellent foragers for being chickens. Ironically, the meanest chickens on the place have turned out to be those White Rocks.

Bourbon Reds we will raise enough to eat here on the place plus some to share with family and friends. I have read they are decent brooders, so I'm hoping to get enough of the hens going at that to keep us supplied in as much turkey meat year round.

Everything else goes. EEs, Ameracaunas, White Rocks, RIRs, Leghorns, even my beloved BO roo, the Narragansett and Royal Palm turkeys, all gone. Two breeds, and that's it. Well, I will have the ducks and geese, but they belong more to my pond than to me.

We have a lot of other projects planned for our little place, and that should simplify the poultry thing sufficiently to let us move on to goats, rabbits, pigs and such.