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Blarneyeggs said:
Wing. Sounds like you're really making some progress on your meaties. I'll have to pay you a visit when we're ready to go down that road.

Sharron, I've heard that the Marans meat is tastier too.

Lisa, I read on the Orpington thread, where a lot of breeders are down south and battling major bugs this season with all the moisture to hang a dryer sheet in the coops. They are especially wary of mosquitoes spreading disease. I routinely sprinkle muddy runs, and spent nasty hog areas with lime to combat the flies. DE too. We are rubbing the goats down with dryer sheets to ward off the horse flies. Not sure if it works, but I figure it can't hurt, and they do smell better
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Goat pics? Of course!
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thanks, i tried the black coppers way before they caught on, i liked the eggs, in fact, for my marans eggs, i have a couple of blue wheaten marans, well, a rooster and three hens, and some young growing out. but to eat, no, didn't like them, by the time they had a little breast meat on them, they were really tough.
our cows are staying in the barn alot with all the biting flies out there , going to check into a automatic sprayer today for them
 
really trying to push toward fast growing breeds with plenty of meat,,never seems to work that way, the fast growers are the skinny looking birds with ery little meat...i was impressed with the roo that i am using for this project, he weighed at 7 pounds when he was only 10 weeks...now to get him to pass that growth onto the offspring...problem with this is the hens that can take that kind of weight are slow growers...
 
wingstone said:
really trying to push toward fast growing breeds with plenty of meat,,never seems to work that way, the fast growers are the skinny looking birds with ery little meat...i was impressed with the roo that i am using for this project, he weighed at 7 pounds when he was only 10 weeks...now to get him to pass that growth onto the offspring...problem with this is the hens that can take that kind of weight are slow growers...
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didn't you say he was a delaware cross? now that sounds like what we need, may look into the delawares.
 
wingstone said:
How are you gonna part with them when the time comes???
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I can tell you the extra work sure helps. I'm cleaning the shelters twice as often and can hardly keep up with the water. Should make em easier to part with. We are now considering selling the doeling, I think for now, the three does we have are enough for us. When we get the winter pasture fenced off, that may be a better time to expand our herd. I'm trying to think with my head and not my heart, it is easier to sell the new babies who we hardly know than the does who we are more pets than livestock. I want to make sure any kids that we keep will improve our herd, as I can't seem to part with them when they're grown.

These pics are after disbud.

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