Packing Peanuts - Turned into Meaties?

[donrae]

By the time they're big enough to process, you'll easily be able to tell roos from hens. For most dual purpose roos, you let them go 18 to 20 weeks. At that age, they're definately roos!

 

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

I got a set of 10 peanuts from Ideal - then another 17 when they reshipped due to most of the sultans we ordered not making it. We originally ordered 10 sultans and 5 red broilers so they added peanuts to make 25. (Sultans are really fragile and the cold got all but 2. A couple of peanuts perished, too. The red broilers are AMAZING!)

The peanuts are all brown leghorns I think. I forsee caponizing experiment round 2! 25 is a much more do-abe number than 100! LOL

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

I would ask the hatchery to mark (usually done with a magic marker) the free cockerels that were added as "extras for warmth" and then kill them upon arrival.
As an alternative to any thinking that these chicks can be turned into meat birds I would order actual meat birds and have something to show for the feed and effort at six weeks.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

I guess you could, but with a very minimum of extra effort you could find someone who would be grateful to take them off your hands (still alive) and have them for dinner guests in a few months. I've found offers on FreeCycle and from others in my poultry club for the extra chicks sent with their orders. They weren't too much trouble or expensive to raise and were welcome at my table. I even sold a few when they were grown, to folks looking for a certain breed of rooster, that about covered my feed costs for the rest.

 

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

I just sold off the excess from my caponizing experiment and got back a chunk of what I'd put into them.

 

[DenverBird]

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I never realized there'd be a lucrative market for those! Did you sell them by the pair or by the pound?

 

[gmendoza]

Just got confirmation with Ideal Poultry on the 4 bronze turkeys for my DW's b-day on the 25(her presents).They charged my card already and will be shipping them along with 12 packing peanuts on the 16th.I got so much great customer service with them and than you Ross Windham,for helping me (works for Ideal).I just might get some pullets out of that batch.I know the packing peanuts will be a bartering chip with my friend in Pelion,SC.

 

[mamawolf544]

I order from Ideal quite a bit. I have only got packing peanuts twice, 10 with an order of turkeys and they were all Plymouth Rock pullets. And the other time it was roos that matched all the different breeds of pullets I ordered.
But it usually depends on the weather, if it is warm you dont usually get packing peanuts.

 

[mamawolf544]

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You will be so happy, whoever raises their turkeys in Texas has wonderful stock. I just called and complimented them last week on this very thing.

 

[gmendoza]

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You will be so happy, whoever raises their turkeys in Texas has wonderful stock. I just called and complimented them last week on this very thing.

Well I wanted to get Narragansetts but they wont be available til april.Too late for her bday. Anyways two of them will be turkey dinner,the other two that she picks out will be her b-day gifts.I cant wait til she calls me and gets mad because she has to go to the post office to pick up chicks,and all those chirping mouths to feed.Its a baptising for her to be welcomed into the poultry world of maddness.

I said I wouldnt buy any more birds,but darn it I am addicted!!

Next its pigeons, geese, rabbits?? who knows.