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[RUNuts]

Those are insanely good prices!!!

I'll definitely give them at least one try.

How long did you grow them out before proccessing them?

How big did they get?

Did not weigh them. The 2018 Spring test 5 out of 10 (rats early) got big. Larger than a grocery store bird. Call it 6-8 pounds. Cockerels bigger than the pullets. I think the weather played a good role here. These went 8 weeks per plan and harvested in one weekend.

The late 2018 summer 21 out of 26, only 1 unknown death, didn't do well. 2 to snakes, 2 were my fault. The weather was miserably hot followed by too much rain. The mosquitos mauled them. I butchered these over 3 weekends so 8 weeks to 11 weeks. All grocery size or less. Call it less than 6 pounds. Delicious, don't get me wrong, but I think weather hurt. In some ways easier, but the rain at the last 4 weeks hindered final growth.

Want to do these, but freezers are full of deer and chicken. Quail for the spring this year while we eat down the larder.

 

[JB8907]

Looking forward to some. What are you raising the quail in?

 

[RUNuts]

Looking forward to some. What are you raising the quail in?

Homemade palaces. See utube Slightly Redneck. He's got some basic cages that made sense. New project for this year. The kids are loving it.

 

[AllenK RGV]

No I haven't candled any as she started with 10 and threw 3 away herself. I am trusting that she knows what she is doing. It is so funny though to see that pullet when she is off the nest as she really looks like a turkey tom with her feathering.
Regardless, if it is a dry run we are ok with it.

Ok today I decided it was break "bridezilla" day. No way she is still sitting on fertile eggs. My now ex-rooster apparently had fertilized one egg(culled for aggression and my eyes). As there is now a mostly intact embryo on my porch from the egg explosion that happened after I pulled her 30 day old eggs out from under her. Yes....I have showered since then Kiki. So her rate was 0 for 13 eggs. Hopefully she will rejoin the flock.

 

[Kiki]

Ok today I decided it was break "bridezilla" day. No way she is still sitting on fertile eggs. My now ex-rooster apparently had fertilized one egg(culled for aggression and my eyes). As there is now a mostly intact embryo on my porch from the egg explosion that happened after I pulled her 30 day old eggs out from under her. Yes....I have showered since then Kiki. So her rate was 0 for 13 eggs. Hopefully she will rejoin the flock.

Next time pull the eggs at day 20 ish so they don't explode silly.
I bet it smelled real nice.

 

[RenoHuskerDu]

This thread has 4385 pages. Big like Texas.
Bertram here, checking in with 11 birds, 3 heelers, 2 cows, and a bunch of wild critters.

 

[Kiki]

This thread has 4385 pages. Big like Texas.
Bertram here, checking in with 11 birds, 3 heelers, 2 cows, and a bunch of wild critters.

Welcome aboard!

 

[Chopperholic78]

Wow, this is a huge post. Allen Wranch, thank you for starting this state-specific board. I am in the little town of Rockdale, just down the road from Cameron and the ever-popular Ideal Poultry. I hope to find lots of useful information from my Central Texas brethren as a set out on this adventure fowl. I'm not sure what kind of chickens we are going to start with, but I do know we are EVENTUALLY going to have chickens, ducks, guineas, turkeys, and peafowl. So, choosing the right breed of chicken to get along with everybody else is important to us. Also, since they will be used primarily for eggs and decoration as my wife has an aversion to "eating anything with a face," good looking fowl are important too. We don't need a ton of eggs unless we start selling them as my wife and I have both had bariatric surgery and cannot eat much at all. So, that's me. If you want to know anything else about me, or have suggestions, just ask or let me know. I'm really pretty open (too much so according to my wife).

 

[Chopperholic78]

Although I don't have any livestock yet, we are allowed to live with two Australian Kelpie mixes and three assorted cats. We have twenty acres, so there's just enough room for them to allow us a share. Our overarching goal is to have a nice little farmstead with goats, fowl, pigs, cows and MAYBE sheep.

 

[007Sean]

This thread has 4385 pages. Big like Texas.
Bertram here, checking in with 11 birds, 3 heelers, 2 cows, and a bunch of wild critters.

Welcome to the thread. Make yourself at home.