Pearce Pastures: Where did I go?

[Pearce Pastures]

LOL, yeah they probably taste great. They just look---inappropriate

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

They are better than these!!

 

[bonbean01]

 

[Pearce Pastures]

DH is eating a bowl of cereal and just glanced over and says EEWWWW. I tried to show him and he said not until he is done eating. Are those yours? Do they usually molt like that? I'd be the women with goats in turtlenecks and turkens in t-shirts if those were here

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

DH is eating a bowl of cereal and just glanced over and says EEWWWW. I tried to show him and he said not until he is done eating. Are those yours? Do they usually molt like that? I'd be the women with goats in turtlenecks and turkens in t-shirts if those were here

Yeah they are nasty.

No way. You couldn't pay me to keep those. And they are nto molting. That's just how they are, all the time.

 

[BrownSheep]

Hey! No pluck chickens, I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

[Southern by choice]

After an outbreak of Bluecomb, it is vital to make sure that your birds have ample supply of clean, cold water, and grain. Molasses can be helpful, as well as some form of potassium. Antibiotics, such as Aureomycin, Terramycin, Streptomycin, Duramycin, and penicillin, are highly advised for the well being of your flock.

Bluecomb can be fatal, but it does not have to be. If you just treat your birds properly and administer the proper antibiotics, bluecomb does not need to be any more dangerous than a head cold.

The problem I see here is treating them if they are meatbirds. If anti-biotics are used there is a withdrawal period.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Hey Turkens are cool birds. I only like them as meat bird though. If you have them as layers, they are so dumb. And they bite!! But as meat birds....yum

I had a turken cockeral. Showed signs of a breedin' roo at like 5 weeks. Very mature. Man that was one mean b*st*rd. Chased other chicks, couldn't be housed with certain ones. But... I miss him XD XD. I do NOT know why, but I liked him XD

I hate the ones with bow ties though, its either have a naked neck or not, CHOOSE!!! XD

Also those bald chickens.

Now call me crazy, but I find them cute. XD. No idea! But I do! The person who created them specifically bred them so that you don't have to pluck feathers and there'd be 'less pollution from chicken feathers', no idea but thats what I heard XD. I guess for large scale meat birds??? Imagine... A bald cornish. NOW those would be a popular meat bird!! No plucking, fast growth. Woot!

Straw ~ You couldn't pay me to keep a goat with a Elvis do

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Turken (Naked Necks), you either love them or you hate them. I am on the love Turken side. I purchaseed a few one year. I have been able to determine which eggs are theirs and have been hatching them, the roosters in the pen they are in are pure White Leghorns. I have produced some really nice white turkens that lay beautiful large eggs and lots of them. Size and frequency of the leghorns, but not a white egg, a vary pale brown egg. Yeah, some people come here athey are really grossed out by them, but they lay lots of eggs and for the egg selling business, that is good.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

After an outbreak of Bluecomb, it is vital to make sure that your birds have ample supply of clean, cold water, and grain. Molasses can be helpful, as well as some form of potassium. Antibiotics, such as Aureomycin, Terramycin, Streptomycin, Duramycin, and penicillin, are highly advised for the well being of your flock.

Bluecomb can be fatal, but it does not have to be. If you just treat your birds properly and administer the proper antibiotics, bluecomb does not need to be any more dangerous than a head cold.

The problem I see here is treating them if they are meatbirds. If anti-biotics are used there is a withdrawal period.

I agree that is a problem. Were these laying birds, I could see treating them and holding eggs. But for a meat bird, I really don't want antibiotics to even touch that bird if I can avoid it.

I will be checking the mineral content of my feed and check into supplements too, but I don't feel at this point that I would order from this company again. I had great success with the last place I ordered from and only got these because they were on sale (you get what you pay for sometimes). Not that I am faultless though and I have learned from this so I guess the added expense was an investment in my practices.

1) Always look into the reputation and testing procedures of any hatchery.
2) Winter is not an easy time of year to raise meat chicks
3) When ordering birds in numbers larger than 25, like say 50, split the group into two brooder areas.
4) Put the heat source in the center of the brooding area NOT in a corner where birds can pile on top of each other and crush birds at the bottom of the pile.
5) Give them limitless, clean water but do not give them unrestricted access to food (It seems that 12 hours on, 12 hours off is the recommendation I am reading most frequently).

And I am sure there are more things I should add to this "lessons learned" list but I haven't had any coffee yet