miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
More and more I am thinking that my biggest ss mistake wa not getting enough land. ![Barnie :barnie :barnie](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/barnie.gif)
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What kind are you getting? Why would they all be cockerels? I'm guessing that they will taste the same as pullets b/c they are so young when you butcher. Are the cockerels bigger? I think I just answered my own question!freemotion said:Is it a bad sign if you don't know how many chickens you have?
We want to order 75 heavy breed cockerels, but the special in the catalog makes it a dollar cheaper to order a hundred. Uh-oh.
Cackle Hatchery has a "fry-pan special" of assorted heavy breed (probably brown egg laying breeds) cockerels for $32 for a hundred. If we got 75, we would have to order a lot of 50 and a lot of 25, which would cost $33! Plus shipping, of course. We were going to order something big like Jersey Giants, but then I got this groovy Dutch oven and cooked up a White Rock rooster that was a year old. It was amazing. Why spend triple when you don't have to? And I figure I might be able to sell a bunch of the chicks for much more than I paid for them, if I go by the prices I see here on CL. Maybe sell 25 and recover most or all of our purchase price and shipping.big brown horse said:What kind are you getting? Why would they all be cockerels? I'm guessing that they will taste the same as pullets b/c they are so young when you butcher. Are the cockerels bigger? I think I just answered my own question!freemotion said:Is it a bad sign if you don't know how many chickens you have?
We want to order 75 heavy breed cockerels, but the special in the catalog makes it a dollar cheaper to order a hundred. Uh-oh.![]()
Has anyone ever thought they built their chicken house too big? I'm wondering because I've read a few comments wishing they would have gone bigger. We're getting ready to build one and now I'm reconsidering the size. I don't want to have to report it here as a SS mistakeohiofarmgirl said:...i also should have realized that chickens are like crack and that i should have built a bigger hen house.
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I don't believe there is such a thing. Unless your chickens will free range 24 hours a day it's always good to have a couple dozen square feet per bird in a coop if possible.VickiLynn said:Has anyone ever thought they built their chicken house too big? I'm wondering because I've read a few comments wishing they would have gone bigger. We're getting ready to build one and now I'm reconsidering the size. I don't want to have to report it here as a SS mistake![]()