they would be good for eating right and ready at 6 weeks or so?
CHICKEN CHAT # 4 - For all the Chicken Heads
yes mamm... 6-8 weeks...
on these cornish cross right, gosh that is tempting, 6 weeks of feed not to bad and the price of them in the store is like 4-6 bucks for 2................hummmmmmmmmmmmm
yep.. in and out.. nobody gets hurt.... well umm almost nobody,
oh.. hey one word of warning.. these are not like regular chickens... I mean they are nice and all.. but with that fast growth come other things.. like way more... WAYYYYYY MORE.. poop.... and it has a very unique odor.. I plan on these birds not being with my other flock.. they will be housed in the field.. not close to the house..
Next year they (hopefully) will be my 8th layer of my lasagne garden.. lol... or the breathing tillers!
fran you got pigerators ? is that what you mean by breathing tillers ? letting pigs do the tilling ? i have heard that is a good way of doing it .
ok so are fryers ( cornish cross mix ) the same as broilers which are a cornish cross mix ?
fran do you have room for a chicken tractor ? to move them around in the yard ? :)
no pigs, and I have a chicken tracktor... I want to use an idea based on John Silveira's very large chicken/ vegetable garden
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/silveira44a.html
And another guy who followed John also:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/geno0704.html
I just think it is a perfect idea and plan on using it to the best of my ability!
Taynors.. I am not sure about the fryers and cornish roasters.. can anyone answer that?
i think she is putting them in a tractor next year, out in the grass. pigerators, taynors you been reading the same book i am LOL...
luvs, the fryers that are 36 bucks for 200 will NOT be ready in 6 weeks. the 100 for 97 bucks owuld though.
seriously i don't have the stomach to raise them. they don't get around well. they die off easily... and they poo about 2 inches under their brooder every three days, BIG pile, i cleaned some up for Carrie TWICE... and you can't keep enough water and food in front of them. and you have to take the food away for 12 hours a day or they will kill themselves eating...
well, on a nice subject, how are those chicks Claire?
a cornish rock is the cross with the huge breasts. other cornish cross are nice, but not as big as Rocks... thinking fryers are smaller and take longer...
Oh gosh no I dont want them
WIth all that said... (tough cookie there tf)
I have no sense of smell, so it doesn't bother me to clean up after them.. it will be a LOT of work, but I believe knowing that is half the battle... well I think it is, I'll let you all know.
tf... how long would it take for those fryers? I really don't have the room for all that this year because we did plan for the cornish, but maybe next year... will I have troubles finishing them in late winter.. feb-apr?
wholy mother of pearl they had big prices on your website tf wow
yeah, josh, what bargains, eh?
frans, winter is the worst time to fatten anything up to eat. in the old days everything was butchered before winter, and only breeding and a few layers kept, then start the cycle over again come spring.
even as i feed mine, and still allow freee range in the winter, we once lost a hen to a dog last November i believe. she had good fatty deposit on her for only 18 months old, would have made good chicken stock, but not meaty. granted, she was a leghorn. haven't actually tried to eat a meat bird in the winter. wait take that back. did a few in Jan. not much on them, but they had to go to make room for my new jersey giant breeders.
so, after talking it out with myself outloud, i would say it is not a sound economical choice to get fryers now to butcher in Jan, unless you live in the southern hemisphere...
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good talk tf... glad you did it outloud
lol
well, i have Micael Pollon book that bring Joel up right now. don't even know wher eit is haven't read it in over a month..
not feeling well today. everyone have a good weekend...
Ok question, I have about 40 or so birds huddling in the NW corner of the pen, they are stacking 3-4 high, how do I stop this, if I put something in the corner they will be at the door and open to a coon reaching in or out from under the roof. I have some dying cause they are trampled. We have plenty of roosts for them and a ramp for them, some just refuse to roost.
aww.. tf... no more babies right????
that should give you a belly laugh and make you feel better!
take a nap this afternoon during a good TBS oldie movie... that always makes me feel better.
sounds like they are cold.. give them a blankie ;-)
lol a blankie, I thought about putting the light out there, they even did this when it was warm at night but not as bad. The lows have been in the high 60's
i didn't tuck mine back in their brooder last night, and lost 6 chicks and aduckling to pile up... some didn't look good, maybe they will be better tomorrow. i stilldon't feel well, but this too shall pass, right?
not funny fran!
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oww I had to scroll up to remember what I said... in the light of day.. that wasn't funny, was it... lol
Don't you gals know 60 is cold on them baby butts.. they have no fluff yet.
Now I am a little scared.. I am going to order the cornish on Monday.. and I have to keep them warm.. I will give mine blankies!
Off to make mini quilts...
Mine ate 7, 9 and 10 weeks old. I may put a light out there for them.
That's what I'd do, Luvs. Lost quite a few to piling this past spring. For the most part heat stopped them. And Shade. So they can pick and choose. I lost a couple from trying to get under the pile away from the light! notfunnotfun.
even when fully fledged, some of the bantam and crested breeds are not the heavily feathered types, which makes them less than cold hardy... a small cage up off the ground [ground temps are dropping] would suffice i fyou can't run electric out there... put the cage where the wind doesn't get, or drape a waterproof sleeping bag over it at night...
I did just that today, we got alot of the bantams moved to the brooder to help with space and such. My thing is tho it wasnt the small ones getting trampled, it was the crested. I am here to tell you my grandson is the bestest chicken catcher in the world. He can catch them little bantams like nobody's business.
Started a new one, guys. I was impatient AND had a yummy pic...
Here's grownut's link everybody!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/900801/
CHECK out that picture. Yummy indeed. He's a hottie roo!