The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[delisha]

I know I am behind and will catch up later..I just wanted to drop a note about the show. (I will post pictures later). One of my birds made Champion row and three others made BB and BV.

 

[FridayYet]

I know I am behind and will catch up later..I just wanted to drop a note about the show. (I will post pictures later). One of my birds made Champion row and three others made BB and BV.

Congratulations!

 

[BlueMouse]

congrats! that's so awesome!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

I know I am behind and will catch up later..I just wanted to drop a note about the show. (I will post pictures later). One of my birds made Champion row and three others made BB and BV.

Nice.

 

[Leahs Mom]

We may have talked about this before. If so, please forgive my memory.

For those of you that weigh your chickens (meat), if you use a platform type scale how to you weigh them? Or is the preferred method a hanging scale with them in some container that you can hang?

I'm talking about live weighing.

 

[Pozees]

I know I am behind and will catch up later..I just wanted to drop a note about the show. (I will post pictures later). One of my birds made Champion row and three others made BB and BV.

Congratulations, that is wonderful!

 

[armorfirelady]

Congrats Delisha !!!!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

We may have talked about this before. If so, please forgive my memory.

For those of you that weigh your chickens (meat), if you use a platform type scale how to you weigh them? Or is the preferred method a hanging scale with them in some container that you can hang?

I'm talking about live weighing.

For the hanging ones, I think it is popular to tie the legs together and hang by the tie.
For the flat ones, the kind, that I have, I would again tie the feet together. I would place a cookie sheet or large flat object like a plywood scrap on the scale, then turn it on to zero it and finally add the chicken. My flat one could easily hod a cardboard box if you did not want to tie the legs together but the movement might make the weight flux. you would still get a good guess at the live weight though.

 

[delisha]

We may have talked about this before. If so, please forgive my memory.

For those of you that weigh your chickens (meat), if you use a platform type scale how to you weigh them? Or is the preferred method a hanging scale with them in some container that you can hang?

I'm talking about live weighing.

I do it pretty easy. I have a postal scale for shipping. I use a box, zero out the machine and place the bird in the box. It also work for human scales. I like to use the postal scale since it is very transportable and has a lifted stand for boxes of all sizes.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I have used my postal scale on my children. It only goes up to 75lbs though so I can't hop on.