Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[sharron]

Use a slow cooker for pretty much 24 hours and lots of tomato sauce/vinegar... (I found this out when I held DH to the "if you're going to shoot it then we are going to eat it" motto...) and needless to say I haven't cooked one since!!

we're not that hungry yet lol

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

I've never wormed my meaties. Never had problems either. We'll except for worrying about the Amish slaughtering them in time before they break their stocky little legs.

thank you. I was thinking about doing it..then decided to read a little and ask a few peeps here....changed my mind...

Thanks guys, we will see what the next week brings... They all went to bed in the coop with no protest by themselves.

awesome...i JUST went out to close the coop door for the meats/turkey...yeah, the turkey is roosting on the open door and the meaties are under the coop...not in their coop, not going in there to put them in either.
I hope they go in there soon...the other night, 2 nights ago, the motion sensor light at the coop came on at around 3am...saw a raccoon, very concerned, trying to get away from the light-never got into the coop or run area, but...so, I have a visitor around, fortunately hasn't been back since, but I really need them to get in tonight!

 

[fisherlady]

..congrats and Good Luck to you and everyone hatching under broodys...some have great hatch numbers other not so much, but the same can happen when we use the incubators
too.....
***Here's a question: Has anyone ever done a study("professionals"/BYCkeepers) OR does anyone know, if are there specific numbers that would say, hatching under a broody is more successful than "artificial" hatching(incubator)...or vice-versa?

I believe they have had studies done on the issue, with broodies often scoring higher percentages until you get into the more expensive and fancier incubators, then it is a draw or some studies with the commercial incubators show a slight edge to the incubator. I know it has been mentioned on some of the broody threads but I haven't researched it personally because for us hasn't been an 'either/or' decision.... between work schedules and camping/fishing trips the broodies are the best option, plus the joy of watching a mama hen do her thing....and do all of the work after the hatch!

Sorry to hear Fisher and Wing have had poor outcomes. That must be a real bummer.

Thanks

...I know it does happen, but is always frustrating wondering if we could have intervened at some point to give the hen a better outcome. Mother nature can be a cruel teacher sometimes. I will be much happier next year if we are able to provide our own hatching eggs to the broodies. This year we have had 80-85% hatch rates with our own barnyard mix eggs, and only about 30-35% with bought eggs.. which has meant multiple hatches just to try to get a good trio or quad for our own eggs next year.

 

[fisherlady]

thank you. I was thinking about doing it..then decided to read a little and ask a few peeps here....changed my mind...

awesome...i JUST went out to close the coop door for the meats/turkey...yeah, the turkey is roosting on the open door and the meaties are under the coop...not in their coop, not going in there to put them in either.
I hope they go in there soon...the other night, 2 nights ago, the motion sensor light at the coop came on at around 3am...saw a raccoon, very concerned, trying to get away from the light-never got into the coop or run area, but...so, I have a visitor around, fortunately hasn't been back since, but I really need them to get in tonight!

If I were you I would be setting a box trap up to nip the problem in the bud! Raccoon and possums can cause a lot of havoc in a single visit...
Love your having a motion sensor light for your coop!

 

[troyer]

...

Have heard a lot of different ways to "cook" ground hog, but no-one ever says how to eat it

....

Eat it like chicken, with a LOT of your favorite barbeque sauce. I have eaten it and liked it.

 

[troyer]

Life is easy for this cockerel taking an early morning sun bath. Sunshine and food, how could it get any better?

 

[Teila]

Life is easy for this cockerel taking an early morning sun bath. Sunshine and food, how could it get any better?

Aaaaw, that is just too adorable!

 

[wingstone]

 
...
Have heard a lot of different ways to "cook" ground hog, but no-one ever says how to eat it ....

   Eat it like chicken, with a LOT of your favorite barbeque sauce. I have eaten it and liked it.

X2
I did not want to be the first to say that.

 

[wingstone]

We don't worm ours either... never had a problem and honestly haven't noticed any during the gutting process either.  So either they are really hard to see or we don't have a heavy load in our soil and the vinegar in the water keeps their gut acidic enough that they don't build up a load of them in the 8-10 weeks it takes before they are ready to butcher.

I occasionally cut the intestines open on purpose when doing an older rooster just to check for worms.

I have to ask why you would worm a meatie, worms would be in the in testing and that part you are not eating, I doubt that Cornish x would have time to build a heavy worm load anyway.

 

[wingstone]

 


Use a slow cooker for pretty much 24 hours and lots of tomato sauce/vinegar... (I found this out when I held DH to the "if you're going to shoot it then we are going to eat it" motto...) and needless to say I haven't cooked one since!!

we're not that hungry yet lol

Where's your sense of adventure ?
Really, it is not that bad, had an aunt that could make some awesome bbq'd raccoon.