Future BBQ's

[Smart Red]

In that case, you'd better get started quickly -- or at least get the materials purchased. Then she could hardly say no to the plan. A new woodworking shop just might be too much. How about starting with one new tool -- much needed so the coop can be just perfect -- and work from there?

 

[journey11]

Can't wait to see your new coop.

Get well soon, Dew! Sorry to hear you aren't feeling well.

 

[thistlebloom]

I like that image @MontyJ ! A man poised to go into a building frenzy and just waiting for permission......gazing out the window at all the buildable spaces...
Around here it takes wheedling, whining and bribery.

 

[journey11]

Haha, I was thinking that too. I wish my DH was hopping to build me another coop! I've asked for just a small one for Ava's banties, that's all...

 

[Carol Dee]

In that case, you'd better get started quickly -- or at least get the materials purchased. Then she could hardly say no to the plan. A new woodworking shop just might be too much. How about starting with one new tool -- much needed so the coop can be just perfect -- and work from there?

LOL....Red the ENABLER!

 

[Smart Red]

LOL....Red the ENABLER!

No, @Carol Dee, I am not enabling. Dew will really appreciate having a new coop for her girls. She NEEDS a new coop since the CXs will be over running the old one. She is a lucky woman to have someone so good at carpentry willing and able to build to her needs.

Isn't that exactly how chicken math is supposed to run?

 

[Carol Dee]

No, @Carol Dee, I am not enabling. Dew will really appreciate having a new coop for her girls. She NEEDS a new coop since the CXs will be over running the old one. She is a lucky woman to have someone so good at carpentry willing and able to build to her needs.

Isn't that exactly how chicken math is supposed to run?

That sounds right.

 

[bobm]

ly fed during the daylight hours. We didn't have any leg issues with the others we processed. And we're not really badmouthing the meat birds Bob. Just stating what everybody knows. They are ugly, nasty half feathered poop machines. I love the chubby lil critters!

Oh, and Dew gave me the go ahead to build a new coop! The laying hens will move into the new digs and the meaties can have the old shack.[/QUOTE]
Well who cares what they look like during their ugly duckling stage ( just like all of the other livestock at that age ), but just think of how they will look right after they come off the Barbie, or out of the frying pan or out of the oven.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I call the three week age bracket the "vulture" stage. The effect is really noticeable when you have black chicks. The feathers are coming in really ragged, the heads look rough, and with them sitting on the play perch in the brooder staring at you with their beady little eyes and possible oversized beak, well some people may have unpleasant dreams thinking about it. There can be a few things about raising chickens that may not be for the faint or heart.

I don't do the meatiness myself, just my dual purpose birds, but I hope you have a big freezer. Or are you planning on canning these?

 

[Beekissed]

I find the meaties to be very sweet and moochy, very friendly when just out and about foraging. One hopped up on the bench between my mother and I and just settled down for a little gab, just as if she had been doing that every day of her little life. Funny as could be. I petted her a little and she laid there like a lap dog for a bit until her hunger drove her back to the hunt.

I free range mine from 2-3 wks on and then they only get fed once per day on layer feed and whole grains mixed. The first two batches I had were great foragers, the second batch were the best foragers I'd ever seen in all my years.