Wing It Ranch

[WingItRanch]

I currently have the main coop, the grow out pin, my Bresse breeding pin, an IBC tote tractor, another IBC tote on hand to build another tractor, a 6x8 dog kennel for grow outs and an electric poultry net. So I have some flexibility on space for summer weather but when the snow starts falling I gotta thin down.

You have Bresse! A friend of mine breeds them in Arizona and I've considered building a separate coop and breeding them for meat. I never liked the idea of Cornish X because they're so incredibly unhealthy and unnaturally large. There's only 2 of us so we don't go through enough meat to justify meat birds but breeding Bresse would allow some processing and even selling hatching eggs and possibly chicks.

 

[Tstraub]

You have Bresse! A friend of mine breeds them in Arizona and I've considered building a separate coop and breeding them for meat. I never liked the idea of Cornish X because they're so incredibly unhealthy and unnaturally large. There's only 2 of us so we don't go through enough meat to justify meat birds but breeding Bresse would allow some processing and even selling hatching eggs and possibly chicks.

I’m just getting started on the Bresse I bought a dozen eggs in July. 6 hatched but one failed to thrive and died a week or two later. So I currently have 3 pullets and 2 cockerels to try to make into a breeding program.

 

[WingItRanch]

I’m just getting started on the Bresse I bought a dozen eggs in July. 6 hatched but one failed to thrive and died a week or two later. So I currently have 3 pullets and 2 cockerels to try to make into a breeding program.

That's awesome. You should start a post on your Bresse breeding adventure. I'd love to follow. Unless you already have a master thread and I can't find it?

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Great. Yeah I'm not sure why my Barred Rocks are such jerks but if this one keeps charging the babies, she may have to go.

I did get some really good photos of the babies today, though!
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Big ol pink comb, that's definitely your boy

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I've been thinning mine down... then hatched 15 more this week. I think that's chicken math gone haywire.

I'm having the same problem

 

[WingItRanch]

Big news! The baby that I had my eye on crowed this morning. Three times in a row! By the time I realized that's what he was doing and got my camera out, he stopped. I'll try to catch it on film. It was the cutest thing!! He puffed out his chest and tilted his little head back. Crowing at only 2 weeks old!

 

[SJsChickies]

Big news! The baby that I had my eye on crowed this morning. Three times in a row! By the time I realized that's what he was doing and got my camera out, he stopped. I'll try to catch it on film. It was the cutest thing!! He puffed out his chest and tilted his little head back. Crowing at only 2 weeks old!

Oh my goodness I hope you can get it on video! I’d love to see it!