My 4H project for 2015 - No, 2014!

[ninnymary]

Oh, that's too bad. I hope the others make it to grow big and healthy.

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Oh, that's too bad, poor little guy.

 

[journey11]

Oh, so sorry, SeedO. I hate when stuff like that happens, but you have to do what's best.

 

[baymule]

So sorry SeedO. We know there will be those that for one reason or another, that won't make it. But that doesn't mean we have to like it.

 

[nachoqtpie]

We did this last year! Got the little female poults on my birthday, 12June, and we had to take our biggest one to the state fair in August? September? I don't remember... LOL Our biggest one was 20 pounds, but we also let them free range. By Thanksgiving we had them all at right about 30 pounds or better.

 

[lesa]

Hoping your others are doing well...keep us posted.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Thanks, it would've been better than seeing it suffer. One less will mean less competition for food for the other five poults, so I'm fairly sure the rest will plump up to a nice size.

I plan on letting mine free-range also, I've never raised a bird completely enclosed. I got mine sometime during the first week of April - the 6th (?), and mine are all males. So they have extra time and I have the benefit of them being males (usually larger than the females). I think that the Richland Co. fair is in August (again "?") so we'll see how they turn out.

Not really on topic but we had some Emben goslings (baby geese) hatch yesterday - Ma's birthday. Our Embdens are of the German type - slightly smaller with a different body conformation, larger beak than the English Embdens. I'll get some pictures tomorrow and go ahead and post them here.

 

[baymule]

Hey, congrats on the goslings! What a Happy Birthday present! I'd take Embden goslings for MY birthday!

 

[nachoqtpie]

Yes! It would have been nice had they given us the males, but nooooo! All females.

In my daughters class, they really stacked the odds against her. The winner for her class was a full 10 pounds heavier than hers! I thought that they would have at least put similar sized birds in each class, since they weighed them when we brought them to the fair grounds they KNEW how heavy each bird was before they put the kids in the classes.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

The way I understand it, the system behind the whole thing really isn't what it used to be.