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Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
Alright, back in, showered up, and getting warm.
The Christmas chicks have gotten big very fast and I moved them in with the adult birds. Thought about giving them another few weeks in the brooder, but I put an escape box in the coop for them and they seem to be doing just fine. I am not sure if it is just that the crosses have produced some kind of vigor in them or perhaps they are all roosters, but I am impressed with their growth rate. We will be putting most of them in the freezer in another few months and I am curious to see how they measure up in weight and taste to the Cornish Crosses.
We fired up the incubator again last week and loaded it up with some more mixed breed eggs and four purebred Old English Game eggs. The OEGs are such fun birds. The others we are hatching for a member (and because it is just fun!).
I moved the boys back to their place (they promptly had a hump fest with each other
), and scraped down the pen floors in the does' house to get rid of the boy smell. The girls are happy to be able to run around like usual.
And DinDin---man I hate him! He has just gotten to the point where he irritates me by just breathing. He just had to be wherever I was working, on the pile of hay I was pitching, on the mineral feeder I was filling, trying to follow me out the door...I swear, I could just about grab the 22 and a sharp knife and just do this already.
We brought our Charlie in to give him a bath. Whew, he was a dirty mess. Almost needs two baths really, but we did our best to get the mud, and who know what else, out and then brushed and blow dried out most of the hay bits. I have to weigh him again. Wish I would have done a weekly photo of him because it is amazing how fast he has grown, I mean just his paws even! I am also noticing his snout is starting to get longer, not so pushed back, puppyish. Pics of course in a bit.
The Christmas chicks have gotten big very fast and I moved them in with the adult birds. Thought about giving them another few weeks in the brooder, but I put an escape box in the coop for them and they seem to be doing just fine. I am not sure if it is just that the crosses have produced some kind of vigor in them or perhaps they are all roosters, but I am impressed with their growth rate. We will be putting most of them in the freezer in another few months and I am curious to see how they measure up in weight and taste to the Cornish Crosses.
We fired up the incubator again last week and loaded it up with some more mixed breed eggs and four purebred Old English Game eggs. The OEGs are such fun birds. The others we are hatching for a member (and because it is just fun!).
I moved the boys back to their place (they promptly had a hump fest with each other
), and scraped down the pen floors in the does' house to get rid of the boy smell. The girls are happy to be able to run around like usual. And DinDin---man I hate him! He has just gotten to the point where he irritates me by just breathing. He just had to be wherever I was working, on the pile of hay I was pitching, on the mineral feeder I was filling, trying to follow me out the door...I swear, I could just about grab the 22 and a sharp knife and just do this already.
We brought our Charlie in to give him a bath. Whew, he was a dirty mess. Almost needs two baths really, but we did our best to get the mud, and who know what else, out and then brushed and blow dried out most of the hay bits. I have to weigh him again. Wish I would have done a weekly photo of him because it is amazing how fast he has grown, I mean just his paws even! I am also noticing his snout is starting to get longer, not so pushed back, puppyish. Pics of course in a bit.
sounds like a productive day
Maybe it is just the breed cross---never had a Boer or a Sable before so might just be normal and I am clueless. He is on the menu for April. BBQ goat, goat sausage, goat stirfry....
