Posted by hchickpea on July 9, 2008, 8:21 pm
The chickens have arrived... and are living in my cargo trailer for a
day or two. 16 culls of Cobb type meat birds. I've been waiting on
building a chicken tractor, now have the materials and just need to
get in gear. I've no idea if all of them will make it, but the price
($0) was too good to pass up, especially since we want layers in a
while.
These birds are scarey compliant and quiet. With the back gate to the
trailer down, only two decided to take a walk outside, and those were
easily rounded up. Not what I remember from my youth. They now have
water, feed, a few squash bugs for entertainment, and some straw.
I'll see how many make it through the night. One or two seem to be
more chicken-like than the rest.
Posted by Seerialmom on July 9, 2008, 8:26 pm
On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, hchick...@hotmail.com wrote:
> The chickens have arrived... and are living in my cargo trailer for a
> day or two. 16 culls of Cobb type meat birds. I've been waiting on
> building a chicken tractor, now have the materials and just need to
> get in gear. I've no idea if all of them will make it, but the price
> ($0) was too good to pass up, especially since we want layers in a
> while.
> These birds are scarey compliant and quiet. With the back gate to the
> trailer down, only two decided to take a walk outside, and those were
> easily rounded up. Not what I remember from my youth. They now have
> water, feed, a few squash bugs for entertainment, and some straw.
> I'll see how many make it through the night. One or two seem to be
> more chicken-like than the rest.
I'm sorry....I took 4 years of Ag. Science in high school, was in the
FFA and before that was in 4-H in Jr. High where my original project
was "poultry". What is a "cull of Cobb"??? Just curious, did you
mention these chickens were coming before? I don't remember seeing a
thread about that :)
Posted by Terri on July 26, 2008, 1:07 pm
hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote in
>
> More like a combination tiller fertilizer machine. Chickens dig into
> the ground for nutritious snacks and to create dust baths. They are
> looking a little cleaner today because of their dusting themselves.
> They also eat like pigs.
Chickens are on our list for next year but right now we have wild chickens
that do that. Wild chickens=so many quail we might as well have little
chickens.
>
> Two of the big ones will be going to freezer camp in a couple of days.
> One has a leg problem, and the other is overly aggressive. That
> should take some pressure off the underachievers and slow the feed
> inhalation just a bit.
>
Are you doing it yourself? I was involved in that as a kid when my
dad was given tons of chickens in payment for an electrical job.
The reason he was given them was they were so old no one else wanted
to eat them.
Never_ again. I found a place not far from me that caters to the small
grower for personal meat consumption that I'm going to try.
Posted by lisajoe on July 27, 2008, 1:55 pm
I so miss having chickens but now I am in the city and can only have three of
them and it seems like too much work.. :(
On 26 Jul 2008 17:07:21 GMT, in misc.consumers.frugal-living Terri
>hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote in
>>
>> More like a combination tiller fertilizer machine. Chickens dig into
>> the ground for nutritious snacks and to create dust baths. They are
>> looking a little cleaner today because of their dusting themselves.
>> They also eat like pigs.
>Chickens are on our list for next year but right now we have wild chickens
>that do that. Wild chickens=so many quail we might as well have little
>chickens.
>>
>> Two of the big ones will be going to freezer camp in a couple of days.
>> One has a leg problem, and the other is overly aggressive. That
>> should take some pressure off the underachievers and slow the feed
>> inhalation just a bit.
>>
>Are you doing it yourself? I was involved in that as a kid when my
>dad was given tons of chickens in payment for an electrical job.
>The reason he was given them was they were so old no one else wanted
>to eat them.
>Never_ again. I found a place not far from me that caters to the small
>grower for personal meat consumption that I'm going to try.
Posted by Terri on July 27, 2008, 8:26 pm
lisajoe@privacy.net wrote in
>
>
> I so miss having chickens but now I am in the city and can only have
> three of them and it seems like too much work.. :(
You're fairly lucky you can have even one.
Many years ago a woman in the adjacent city of Eagle had a little
banty for a pet. She had a small chicken house built of it to scale
that matched her own.
The neighbors got together and enforced the no livestock rule
and she had to get rid of it.
>
>
> On 26 Jul 2008 17:07:21 GMT, in misc.consumers.frugal-living Terri
>
>>hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote in
>>
>>
>>>
>>> More like a combination tiller fertilizer machine. Chickens dig into
>>> the ground for nutritious snacks and to create dust baths. They are
>>> looking a little cleaner today because of their dusting themselves.
>>> They also eat like pigs.
>>Chickens are on our list for next year but right now we have wild
>>chickens that do that. Wild chickens=so many quail we might as well have
>>little chickens.
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> day or two. 16 culls of Cobb type meat birds. I've been waiting on
> building a chicken tractor, now have the materials and just need to
> get in gear. I've no idea if all of them will make it, but the price
> ($0) was too good to pass up, especially since we want layers in a
> while.
> These birds are scarey compliant and quiet. With the back gate to the
> trailer down, only two decided to take a walk outside, and those were
> easily rounded up. Not what I remember from my youth. They now have
> water, feed, a few squash bugs for entertainment, and some straw.
> I'll see how many make it through the night. One or two seem to be
> more chicken-like than the rest.