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wingstone said:
Having some of my favorites for lunch
Fried pork chop
Fried egg put on top
Side salad of lettuce and mushroom

What you eating today??
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I miss chops!!
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....oh well...I had caprese salad..tomatoes/mozzarella/basil and fresh cracked pepper!! awesome good stuff!!
Diz78 said:
I am one proud momma!!!! The first is of the 2 I found this morning and the second is in comparison to a large egg!!! I am so excited!!

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congrats!!
chiques chicks said:

Inside feeder for dry food. Holds 50 pounds. Outside I use rubber bowls for food and water, Same as wingstone. I may install a water trough inside this winter. Last year I used a 3 1/2 gallon hanging wateter. I may use it again this winter. The plastic ones aren't too bad to get the ice out.
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I like the wood box idea..my problem is the biggins' like to get everything out and then scratch in the sand & I don't have alot of coop room.
I have a 3 pound hanging feeder for the dry stuff and a low-sided bucket for the FF. I fill and hang the dry feeder , they knock everything out. I take the feeder out..wait about 4 days maybe longer, depends on how much I can still see in the sand..then we start all over again. they get FF every day, some sort of 'salad' ..sometimes scratch...I know they are getting enough....
but we need to do the "tube feeder" because they are wasting alot of the dry stuff. They won't be able to toss it everywhere with a smaller/different and higher opening. I have a 1 gal waterer...it can hang, but I have it sitting on a block right now.
Do you have any issues with your birds knocking it around and spilling? ... I don't know how well the nipple/tube waterer is going to work, will probably have to go with the plastic waterer when the weather gets real cold as the water will prabably freeze in the nipples or the "tubing/plastic".
 
**Wing- do you keep your FF outside all the time? ...I am hopeing it is you that had said about doing that...anyway, Do you have a issue with flies or anything like that? I have been keeping the FF in the "chicken-shed" slightly covered and this morning I had teeny-tiny flies...they looked like flies..I don't know...could I still feed this to the chickens or not a good idea? I will start new if I have to, but just wondering if it would "hurt" them...
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wingstone said:
any suggestions on prices....right now we sell o people we know and it's way below grocery store prices
How much would the general public pay, would they even realize there's a difference with farm raised...
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First, before you can set prices, you need to know your input costs. Cost of a chick, how much they eat to get to target weight, multiplied by the cost of feed, how long it takes to feed them, etc.

IMO, the 'general public' isn't your target market if you're doing this for money and not as an expensive hobby. If you raise your meat birds in movable pens on pasture, you can end up with a premium product and get a premium price. If you target people who know the difference, and are willing to pay for it, raising meat chickens can be worth your time. I've seen pasture raised, dressed frozen 5# chickens in the $15-$20 range, depending on whether they're sold on-farm or at a market.
 
LittleMissPurdy said:
I have a 3 pound hanging feeder for the dry stuff and a low-sided bucket for the FF. I fill and hang the dry feeder , they knock everything out. I take the feeder out..wait about 4 days maybe longer, depends on how much I can still see in the sand..then we start all over again. they get FF every day, some sort of 'salad' ..sometimes scratch...I know they are getting enough....
but we need to do the "tube feeder" because they are wasting alot of the dry stuff. They won't be able to toss it everywhere with a smaller/different and higher opening. I have a 1 gal waterer...it can hang, but I have it sitting on a block right now.
Do you have any issues with your birds knocking it around and spilling? ... I don't know how well the nipple/tube waterer is going to work, will probably have to go with the plastic waterer when the weather gets real cold as the water will prabably freeze in the nipples or the "tubing/plastic".
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Re - knocking food out of the feeder, try these

1) If you use crumbles, switch to pellets.

2) Mount the feeder higher. Feeders should be no lower than the chicken's backs, and a little higher doesn't hurt as long as they can reach it.

I've had better luck with buckets for water, rather than the fountain type waterers. Mine fling bedding into the fountain types.

My permanent pens are set up now, and I want to get my automatic bell waterers set up, but I'm also worried how they will perform in freezing weather. If I get a brainstorm, I'll let you know. Otherwise, it's buckets in winter for me and mine.
 

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