Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[Sally Sunshine]

LOL, question is, did you feel guilty?

 

[chicksooner]

ha! not at all.

Finally took the plunge into FF. Did just a tiny bit in a jar. Just to make sure I got it. Gave some to the babies and some to the bigger kids. Babies snubbed it and the 2 month olds devoured it. There was flying FF. So I now have a big bucket going so the adults can taste. Not sure I am getting it quite right but it smelled good and sour doughish after 3 days. Can't wait for the bucket to be ready. I need to go find another bucket.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good for you! its so easy! and so worth it! no stinky poo, ALOT less waste mean half the food, awesome feathering and comb wattle colors, MY eggs are HUGE and I mean HUGE! plus of course if that's not enough..... ALL THAT NUTRITIONAL plus ShhTUFF!!

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Mental note: do not bring coffee outside to sit and stare at broody with chicks when cx broiler pen is so close by. They have reached the "aren't they ready yet?" stage and are rather unpleasant. Doesn't help that this batch is out for blood! Thinking I may need gloves for feeding soon. Ouch.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Mental note: do not bring coffee outside to sit and stare at broody with chicks when cx broiler pen is so close by. They have reached the "aren't they ready yet?" stage and are rather unpleasant. Doesn't help that this batch is out for blood! Thinking I may need gloves for feeding soon. Ouch.

Wow are they that piggish and need food!

 

[fisherlady]

Wow are they that piggish and need food!

Yep, our Cornish X are the same way... they attack the feeder like they've been starved for a week when you put in fresh food.
Otherwise they tend to be a rather easy going group... just don't interfere in their food, that's all.

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Yep, our Cornish X are the same way... they attack the feeder like they've been starved for a week when you put in fresh food. 
Otherwise they tend to be a rather easy going group... just don't interfere in their food, that's all.

Yep. Just got back in from noon chicken chores, and one is refilling the broiler trough. I feed a rather wet food, so this time I just poured it through the wire roof of the pen. They all climb in when I feed anyway - and look like muddy hippies at Woodstock when they run under the flow. I got splashed, but since I got bitten multiple times this am, I don't mind.I am sooo ready for this batch to be tucked away into my freezer...

 

[BCMaraniac]

Mental note: do not bring coffee outside to sit and stare at broody with chicks when cx broiler pen is so close by. They have reached the "aren't they ready yet?" stage and are rather unpleasant. Doesn't help that this batch is out for blood! Thinking I may need gloves for feeding soon. Ouch.

Yesterday AM found one of my CX dying of congestive heart failure(did you know that their combs get cyanotic---bluish---when they are in CHF?), so processed quickly. Because of paranoia about the others, they got less food yesterday. Hubby and I made a sheet metal killing cone this AM, and thankfully I still had my gloves on when I went to feed because they attacked my hands because I wasn't getting their food fast enough. I sure am glad that only two days to go until they head to the freezer!!

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Yesterday AM found one of my CX dying of congestive heart failure(did you know that their combs get cyanotic---bluish---when they are in CHF?), so processed quickly.  Because of paranoia about the others, they got less food yesterday.  Hubby and I made a sheet metal killing cone this AM, and thankfully I still had my gloves on when I went to feed because they attacked my hands because I wasn't getting their food fast enough.  I sure am glad that only two days to go until they head to the freezer!! 

Yeah, I have one that seemed a little quiet this am. No blue, but...quiet. I'm going to check him later this afternoon and make a decision about emergency processing on that one.

 

[chicksooner]

You guys are convincing me that meaties are nasty birds. Thinking I will just stick with my dual purpose that are sweet and pretty to look at.