The Moonshiner's Leghorns

Pics
Date sort Score sort
NagemTX said:
We have bad weather coming in tomorrow morning, so I got feed today and filled all my in-coop feeders and did water. Now if it's pouring down, I don't have to go out and do chicken things.
Click to expand...
It rained until 5:30 here today. No downpours but I completely soaked 2 sets of clothes and that was trying to stay out of it as much as possible.
Sucks the sale is tomorrow and I work so that only leaves me about a 3 hour window.after work. Highest chance of heavy rain is during that time.
That doesn't work for hauling feed in a truck bed.
 
The Moonshiner said:
Got a little bit of stuff done today. Got my running errands done first thing then moved on to chickening.
Trying to get grow outs situated now. Went trough 4 breeding pens making sure they were secure. Added a bunch of 2×4s for more roosts. Swapped to water bowls and quite a few of the 7lb feeders. Nothing too complicated just a lot of time consuming. Left 2 connected into 1 bigger pen and filled it with pullets. Put oldest cockerel group in 1 of the others and another cockerel group in the last.
Want to say that was 2/3rds of the grow outs but I think that would be a far stretch.
Both cockerel pens were fuller then I'd have liked but guess that's OK I have several that need to go and go sooner then later.
I could tell though out of those groups it was male heavy. About 60/40. 420 sounded good but I'll see what's left come spring. Lots of boys are gonna be going but I saw quite a few that I won't be sad about.
Next chore is clean out another grow out pen that's in the garage with concrete floor. Shovel shovel shovel. Got 4 brooders of small juveniles I hope will fit in there for a while. Once those are out of the brooders it'll only leave me the last 2 batches that'll be in brooders.
Click to expand...
We were very cockerel heavy on our hatches this year also. We even got 20% cockerels in the group of white Leghorn "pullets" we ordered and split with a friend. We kept 6 and he got 6. He ended up with 5 pullets and a rooster, and we ended up with 5 pullets and a rooster. Then we won't even talk about the Silver Leghorn straight run bunch... only 2 pullets out of like 13 chicks!

Our many many cockerels have been culled down a lot by accidentally flying into the turkey lot. Some pullets and hens also, unfortunately. It didn't make a dent in the gen pop but it still makes me angry for the turkeys to kill them. We will be butchering a great deal of the turkeys as soon as I get time.
 
NagemTX said:
We have bad weather coming in tomorrow morning, so I got feed today and filled all my in-coop feeders and did water. Now if it's pouring down, I don't have to go out and do chicken things.
Click to expand...
That's the way to do it. I picked up feed tonight at tsc and then went to Whataburger.
 
KF0002 said:
We were very cockerel heavy on our hatches this year also. We even got 20% cockerels in the group of white Leghorn "pullets" we ordered and split with a friend. We kept 6 and he got 6. He ended up with 5 pullets and a rooster, and we ended up with 5 pullets and a rooster. Then we won't even talk about the Silver Leghorn straight run bunch... only 2 pullets out of like 13 chicks!

Our many many cockerels have been culled down a lot by accidentally flying into the turkey lot. Some pullets and hens also, unfortunately. It didn't make a dent in the gen pop but it still makes me angry for the turkeys to kill them. We will be butchering a great deal of the turkeys as soon as I get time.
Click to expand...
Thanksgiving is coming soon and I bet one of those turkeys will look good on your table.
 

Similar threads

talkinboutchickens
    • Like
    • Love
Apparently not a brown leghorn haha
2
Replies
13
Views
2K
talkinboutchickens
talkinboutchickens
MotherofHens5280
Rooster Behaviors
2
Replies
12
Views
2K
McChooky
McChooky
I
I have Marek's. Or Do I? Now What?
Replies
3
Views
333
izopsitos
I
E
Introducing Leghorn Pullets to Leghorn Hens
Replies
6
Views
1K
emmaro
E
C
How to raise my Cornish Cross for the long term?
2
Replies
15
Views
3K
BigBlueHen53
BigBlueHen53

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom