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Bettacreek
do you have much trouble on the swap thread that you run, I quit going to them after getting duped a few times...4 to be exact...gets a little old with others not holding up their end..
 
wingstone said:
very proud of myself and self control.
needed to run to TSC for a heat lamp for the muscovy babies due to arrive tomorrow...
all the chicks and duck are on sale...meaties down to $1 duckies are down to  3.50...chicks all marked down but do not remember price...

now to my way of thinking....I am setting up the brooder anyway...but I resisted and bought only my light bulb
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At a buck a bird for the meaties I would have looked really hard at them! I think the TSC in our local town is having trouble getting rid of chicks in general, the nasty weather has everyone delaying their plans.
 
Auroradream26 said:
yes they did. They brought out a whole pallet full to load our car and the car after us but there were A LOT of people getting them. I know we took 20, the guy after us took 25, and the people before us took 10. I'm going to stop by tomorrow and get more since I'll be down there again.
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I wonder if they'll still have any tomorrow. I'm anxious about my kiddos getting home (they're out at 12:30 because of the storm) and I just can't see taking the interstate with weather in mind. :/
 
wingstone said:
Bettacreek
do you have much trouble on the swap thread that you run, I quit going to them after getting duped a few times...4 to be exact...gets a little old with others not holding up their end..
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Once in awhile I'll get someone who farts around. Very rare to get one who just says screw it and leaves without fulfilling. The WYGS has been going for forever. I've heard that the egg swaps don't do as well, and I've personally been burned BADLY on those, but the WYGS isn't bad at all. You can put eggs on there too...
 
So I think I decided what I want to do for meaties... My long term plan is to get some delaware and some dark Cornish (or white Cornish, but I guess they aren't as winter hardy?). I'll put them in a separate pen from my layers and just let them reproduce and see what we get. I'll keep the best offspring from each hatch and process the rest. Eventually we should end up with some barnyard mix that is a pretty nice shaped bird and since Delaware and dark Cornish are both good eaters, the intermediate crosses should be decent too, right?

Short term for this season, I'm not sure... I guess depending on what we can find for the Cornish and Delaware we'll just start with those, but I doubt I'll be able to find them cheap enough to make buying 15 or so birds worth the cost. We may just buy 15 CornishX for this season and then add a just a pair each of Delaware and dark Cornish for the long term goal.

So... Anyone have any Delaware or standard Cornish or know where I can get some?
 
emorems0 said:
So I think I decided what I want to do for meaties... My long term plan is to get some delaware and some dark Cornish (or white Cornish, but I guess they aren't as winter hardy?). I'll put them in a separate pen from my layers and just let them reproduce and see what we get. I'll keep the best offspring from each hatch and process the rest. Eventually we should end up with some barnyard mix that is a pretty nice shaped bird and since Delaware and dark Cornish are both good eaters, the intermediate crosses should be decent too, right?

Short term for this season, I'm not sure... I guess depending on what we can find for the Cornish and Delaware we'll just start with those, but I doubt I'll be able to find them cheap enough to make buying 15 or so birds worth the cost. We may just buy 15 CornishX for this season and then add a just a pair each of Delaware and dark Cornish for the long term goal.

So... Anyone have any Delaware or standard Cornish or know where I can get some?
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sorry, I have been out of Delaware for a few year's...they can be a nice breed but just a head's up...every rooster I had in the delaware breed got mean, maybe just my luck but something to watch for.

have you ever processed before, maybe a few cornishx are in order just to get going..
 
PROBLEM PROBLEM PROBLEM

I have no empty cage so I brought a child's swimming pool inside, how long do you think this will hold ducks ???

and my strange hubby just told me to set it up in the living room...his reasoning is, If I am gonna run the electric bill with a heat lamp, why not put it in a room that we are using.....
 

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