Weighing chickens

[redinator]

How do you weigh your chickens? I'm mostly curious about my Black Jersey Giant cockerel. He's stands at least a head taller than all my other chickens and is very broad. When he runs across the yard and I hear the thump, thump, thump and assume it's on of my dogs running around, lol. (My dogs are 35 and 15 lbs)

I tried getting him to stand on a kitchen scale and bathroom scale, but you can probably imagine how that went, lol.

 

[kattabelly]

@Ponypoor this thread needs your photo of Ruth! (She uses a soft bag and a luggage scale)

 

[redinator]

Something like this? https://a.co/d/059n7Pu

 

[Ponypoor]

I place my chooks in one of those cloth grocery bags and use a luggage scale to weigh my gang.

This is Sir Shirley who weighed in at about 8.26lbs, I should have used a larger bag when I weighed him!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Not sure what your kitchen scale looks like but weigh yourself holding him on the bathroom scale and weigh yourself immediately while dressed the same without holding him. Subtract to find the difference. That way you don't have to buy anything.

 

[Ponypoor]

Something like this? https://a.co/d/059n7Pu

Yep. And a cloth shopping bag - large one for your Goliath!

 

[Ponypoor]

Not sure what your kitchen scale looks like but weigh yourself holding him on the bathroom scale and weigh yourself immediately while dressed the same without holding him. Subtract to find the difference. That way you don't have to buy anything.

Not as much fun though

 

[tlcmurphy]

Not sure what your kitchen scale looks like but weigh yourself holding him on the bathroom scale and weigh yourself immediately while dressed the same without holding him. Subtract to find the difference. That way you don't have to buy anything.

That’s how I do it, but you forgot the part about chasing said chicken through the house after it flies off while you’re staring at the scale thinking “I weigh WHAT?!”

 

[kattabelly]

That’s how I do it, but you forgot the part about chasing said chicken through the house after it flies off while you’re staring at the scale thinking “I weigh WHAT?!”

Here it would be:
Carry bathroom scales from home half a mile away
Level off some ground
Chase chickens away
Continue leveling off some ground
Chase chickens away
(Etc.)
Drag a paving slab up the hill to stand the scales on
Chase chickens away
Almost drop slab on chicken
Put scales down
Catch a chicken
Chase other chickens away
Stand on scales
Chase other chickens away
(Etc)
...

 

[Ponypoor]

Here it would be:
Carry bathroom scales from home half a mile away
Level off some ground
Chase chickens away
Continue leveling off some ground
Chase chickens away
(Etc.)
Drag a paving slab up the hill to stand the scales on
Chase chickens away
Almost drop slab on chicken
Put scales down
Catch a chicken
Chase other chickens away
Stand on scales
Chase other chickens away
(Etc)
...

Add pony into that mix and that’s here