Showing posts with label brooder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brooder. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Moving the Chicks Out to Grass

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When the 16 chicks hatched out of our incubator, as soon as they were dried off, we moved them out into the garage.  We have a makeshift bro...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Meat Birds - 2021

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Checking out the deep freeze, we tallied up the count of our frozen chickens in inventory.  There are only six left!  With the supply chain ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

2020 Chicks in the Mail!

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I post this every year, but here is this year's rendition.  Early this morning before chores, Tricia got the call from the Post Office t...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Week 1 The Cornish Cross Project

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The baby chicks have been in the brooder for a week now in the garage under heat lamps on pine shavings.  They are eating 22% protein chick ...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

The Cornish Cross Project - 2019

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As spring approaches each year our thoughts turn to preparing for yet another Cornish Cross Meat Bird crop.  Each spring we order baby chick...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

2018 Meat Birds - 1 Week Old

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We're one week into this year's edition of the on-going experiment of growing our own poultry.  We learn something new each year.  S...
Monday, March 5, 2018

2018 Meat Birds - Baby Chicks Arrive!

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Two weeks ago I did an inventory on our chickens in the deep freeze and I counted 28 birds in gallon sized Ziploc bags.  I told Tricia that ...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Reclaiming the Garage

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For the past month or so, our garage has been invaded by almost 100 birds.  Two brooders have occupied a spot that normally houses our vehic...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

2017 Meat Birds - 3 Weeks Old

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This evening Tricia cooked up some fried rice with a couple of fresh eggs and then stir-fried some chicken with snow peas, carrots and water...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

2016 Meat Birds Arrive! (Day 1)

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Yesterday we posted about preparing for the the delivery of our meat birds.  It's a good thing we did. This morning at work I received a...