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The Farmers' Daughter said:
That's so cool! Are they straight run? Mixed breeds?

I hear ya on the education system. Very few know how to think for themselves. Except how to let something electronic do the work for them.
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They are one week old straight run Red Rangers. Some are already feathering out faster than the others, so I'm thinking I have a least a couple of pullets. I do plan on raising the cockerels for meat and I'll give the pullets a chance to prove that they are layers. The 12 week mark is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, so we may be roasting a chicken instead of a turkey.
 
BellePoule said:
They are one week old straight run Red Rangers. Some are already feathering out faster than the others, so I'm thinking I have a least a couple of pullets. I do plan on raising the cockerels for meat and I'll give the pullets a chance to prove that they are layers. The 12 week mark is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, so we may be roasting a chicken instead of a turkey.
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Yum!
 
BellePoule said:
They are one week old straight run Red Rangers. Some are already feathering out faster than the others, so I'm thinking I have a least a couple of pullets. I do plan on raising the cockerels for meat and I'll give the pullets a chance to prove that they are layers. The 12 week mark is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, so we may be roasting a chicken instead of a turkey.
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I've heard the red ranger pullets are decent egg layers with a nice docile personality. The cockerels are also supposed to be nice birds, but HUGE.
 
Redhead Rae said:
I've heard the red ranger pullets are decent egg layers with a nice docile personality. The cockerels are also supposed to be nice birds, but HUGE.
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Sadly, the cockerels aren't gonna get the chance to become roosters. Unless I have to get rid of Miles, my SLW roo, who keeps going after my son. Then I may keep one cockerel if he proves he can do the job.
 
BellePoule said:
Sadly, the cockerels aren't gonna get the chance to become roosters. Unless I have to get rid of Miles, my SLW roo, who keeps going after my son. Then I may keep one cockerel if he proves he can do the job.
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If he is going after your son, he deserves a trip to freezer camp. Seriously!
 
Redhead Rae said:
If he is going after your son, he deserves a trip to freezer camp. Seriously!
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I've decided that he's going to freezer camp when the turkey does in two weeks... I'd like to separate him and fatten him up before then. He's low in the pecking order, so he doesn't get a lot of food. I would put him the kennel, but I'm using it as a brooder for the chicks right now.
 
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