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Chickens, chickens, and MORE chickens! (Updated Photos)

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Lovely rooster you've got there Paul.

 

Are you breading chickens for the meat or to have some just for the eggs?

Prior in life I had a house on the countryside in Sweden. Once I tried  "Broiler" (not sure if the name is same in English). I bought them one day old, 30 of them. That was not chickens, it was monsters! In industrial perfect conditions the grow to 1kg in only 4 weeks. All they did was eat, drink sit, eat, drink, eat, sitt. Almost no feathers so they where easy to "clean".

I let my chicks live a little bit longer so the the result was shocking.

The weight after the clean out (well this is the best word I could find but I hope you understand :) ) was from 2-3,2kg! and the meat was absolutely fantastic. 

 

I also had 80 "brown egg" chicks as a hobby. Selling eggs to the city guys for twice the price that they could get from the shop:) 

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Parrothead

Lovely rooster you've got there Paul.

 

Are you breading chickens for the meat or to have some just for the eggs?

Prior in life I had a house on the countryside in Sweden. Once I tried  "Broiler" (not sure if the name is same in English). I bought them one day old, 30 of them. That was not chickens, it was monsters! In industrial perfect conditions the grow to 1kg in only 4 weeks. All they did was eat, drink sit, eat, drink, eat, sitt. Almost no feathers so they where easy to "clean".

I let my chicks live a little bit longer so the the result was shocking.

The weight after the clean out (well this is the best word I could find but I hope you understand :) ) was from 2-3,2kg! and the meat was absolutely fantastic. 

 

I also had 80 "brown egg" chicks as a hobby. Selling eggs to the city guys for twice the price that they could get from the shop:) 

 

Thanks, mate. 

 

As far as breeding goes, as long as Brewster holds up, I hope I won't have to do any breed any directly, myself. :D

 

We are breeding for meat chickens. Sold some already. Will be about another six months, I would say, before I have the flock producing and reproducing fast enough, though. We had tried another breed or two, wasting time on them and not really making any money in the end. So, hopefully, this time anyway, we will be on the right track. 

Three days ago (will be three days this morning), we had another ten hatch. Ol' Brewster is giving them all hell and won't let the other (smaller) rooster in on any of the action. All in all, we have 11 there, at the moment. 

 

So, 20 here, 11 at the farm, 6 recently sold. 1 hen died. We started out with 2 roosters, 8 hens and 6 chicks. We should have a population explosion by December. I will probably buy some more hens between now and then as well.

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jimmyboy

the 10 new chicks? hatched by a hen or incubator?

did you control collection and storage of eggs more closely than before?

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the 10 new chicks? hatched by a hen or incubator?

did you control collection and storage of eggs more closely than before?

 

Incubator. 10 out of 11 lived. All hatched.

Yes. Kept them cooler. 

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jimmyboy

wow!

what a change!

load that sucker up buddy!

 

this is worth pondering about washing the eggs in acid:

 

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Parrothead

wow!

what a change!

load that sucker up buddy!

 

this is worth pondering about washing the eggs in acid:

 

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Wait now. This was out of 20 eggs.

 

So, 11 hatched, and (so far) 10 lived.

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