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The cornishx are finished,,I did a 5 week feed of fernented grain (wheat,barley,corn) my live weights are all between 2.13 and 3.0 pounds........so far so good...looking for a finish of 2.5 pounds.
 
made the gals something special today

scrambled egg with warmed up mixed greens and carrots and a little oats mixed just because!


They get room service omelets in the cold!

plus I gave them some warmed up pumpkin seeds and pieces and water that I had frozen from the fall-----it was not a lot but it seems like they liked it..............not sure if its the warmth or the pumpkin..............

of course they always have their pellets..............but with it being so cold...........and they did not want to go out today...........I gotta give them something different to eat and do with their time!
 
heatherscooby77 said:
Haha!  I get what you mean about 2nd shift.  I worked it for years, and my body doesn't want to be day shift ever!!!!!

As for rabbits for meat production, try researching:  Champagne D'Argent  It is a big meaty bunny.  I do know someone who breeds those.  I am about chicken and rabbit math!!!
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Champagnes are a great meat rabbit and very pretty but the genetic pool for them is very small and I have heard of poblems with the skin on them that it just rips like English angoras ears. I was at a show in Jan and this champagne had such bad soar hocks it almost blead out
 
zach N houdan said:
Champagnes are a great meat rabbit and very pretty but the genetic pool for them is very small and I have heard of poblems with the skin on them that it just rips like English angoras ears. I was at a show in Jan and this champagne had such bad soar hocks it almost blead out
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That sounds like a bad blood line, or husbandry issues. I had a line of Rexes that had that same problem. Beautiful animals but not very hardy.
 
Haven't been on here in ages and there's no way I can possibly catch up with everything that's been going on. So...how's everybody handling this crazy cold?

I haven't been heating the coop or run in any way even with the temps like they are right now, just had everything covered with plastic and made sure all my cracks were caulked with just the ventilation at the roof. But with having the crossbeak roo who can't eat regular feed I have to keep up with the fermented feed. I would freeze solid within half an hour to an hour of putting it out.
So I hung a heat lamp over the bowl just to keep it above freezing. I'd turn off the heat lamp at dark and let them get settled in for the night. Everybody's been cool with it and go up into their coop and roost as usual. Last night, however, I worked 3to11 and didn't turn off the heat lamp before I left. Last night when I got home from work all the chickens were snuggled up on the roost UNDER the coop in the run which I'd inadvertently also warmed with the heat lamp as the fermented feed bowl sits right by that roost. So I left them there for the night since it was dark and late and cold already and I didn't want to disturb them and have somebody end up on the floor and cold if they couldn't sort out their roosting spots again so late at night.

And today I broke down and moved the heat lamp into the coop, hung it in the back corner. I have a thermometer in there to see what it gets the temp up to. If it raises it over 30 I'm turning it off. I don't want them to be too warm and not used to the weather any more. But I thought I'd give them a break since it's been so cold and is supposed to continue for at least another week. So, we'll see how they are. I hope I didn't make a bad decision by putting that heat lamp in there...
 
Mine have a 250w heat lamp hanging 7ft up in the rafters. I turn it on in the morning between 7-8 & off about 12 hrs later. It's not on for heat, just light but it does help warm the coop by a couple degrees during the day.
 
fisherlady said:
Well, put up an ad on Pennswoods.net last night under the livestock section to sell some of the birds.... most are hens and roosters under a year old, though I did include the trio I told Sally about a few days ago (that young fellow never contacted me if he was interested, I figured he wasn't looking for mutts
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I have Black Giants, Silver Pencil Rocks, Buckeye Roosters, and barnyard mix hens and roosters...

Anyone interested in some nice young birds check it out. I have 2 more hens in broody mode, so need the space!


Why in the heck are all of my hens going broody over the winter???? Geesh!!!!
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I think he ordered from FL!
 

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