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Hi; Dave;
We were sure impressed with how well the chicken plucker worked, very slick. If I decide to build one, I'll give you a holler for the parts.
We realized that a number of our birds are at a good weight for rotisserie cooking. We like to have about a 3 pound dressed weight for the rotisserie, It fits well on the gas infrared grill and that size seems to cook in right about an hour which is nice.
We still have alot of birds that we will give 2-3 more weeks to.
The Mineral Pack is working out great. A note to others here so they know what we are talking about:
I have been feeding my chickens my own feed mix, but could not find a proper and cost effective vitamin / mineral mix at the local feed mills. I was on the BYC site here and found dave. He is about a chicken farmer about a hour away from me. I drove out to his farm and saw where he raises his birds, and he sold me a couple bags of his custom mixed vitamin / mineral mix for my own birds. I've been mixing it in and feeding it to my birds for the past 5 days now. The birds seem like they have been eating and drinking more in the past 5 days since I started them on the vitamin / mineral sup. I have not lost anyone to leg problems in the last 5 days.
Dave invited me out to his place on Monday, and we went out for about a hour to watch his process chickens. It was the first time they used the chicken plucker they built and it was very impressive. Much Much faster than plucking by hand.
I'll update everyone here in a few weeks on how the vitamin / mineral supplement worked out on my Cornish X.
Dave; Would the Supplement be considered organic? I was just thinking if it is vitamins / minerals that perhaps they are able to label it as organic without as much trouble as regular food?
Jamie