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Haven't tried it - yes it gets plenty hard. but also strongly flavored.

I do, but chicken fat works "poorly" for sausage. It doesn't harden right, results in a very unpalatable texture sadly.

Need to reduce the goat head count too. Hopefully, a dry cool three day weekend. Though I'm sure the animals are hoping otherwise.

Older duck moved out of the grow out, turkeys have joined the younger ducks in the grow out. Have to clean the turkey's prior cage out in preparation for moving last (chicken) hatch out, then start another incubation. Going to remove another rabbit as well, maybe two - we are capable of...

And a rare few of us don't have reliably broody birds and needed to rapidly increase flock size to advance our project. But yes, eventually, after everything else has been checked off, I'll try and encourage some broodiness. Right now, its lowest priority. (and since we don't actually get...

Last Hatch. The all yellow one and the all black one are destined for freezer camp. he lighter yellow/less chipmonk backed birds will get a little time to show their pattern and growth rates, then them may go. The darker, better patterned birds are likely all keeps - unless they really...

Me? No. I incubate to change flock numbers, since I don't have broody birds, and have lost every chick that was successfully brooded. But when I do incubate, I select for egg size and color in hopes of getting birds that lay larger, lighter tinted eggs. Also, I have a bird that consistently...

The predators handle part of that. I handle some of it when I'm selecting which birds go to freezer camp and which get to continue breeding. But I don't control the breeding itself - they can partner with any bird on property. I judge the offspring, not the parents. How does the bird "look"...

The scale broke. Quickly. But it would give volumes of milk and water based on weight.

I can keep my hatchlings separate from my adolescents from the main flock, so I feed a commercial mix as their sole ration until I integrate them into the main flock. The main flock also get s a commercial mix and free ranges many acres - I adjust how much I feed based on their daily...

Its in my Sig - 36, plus 8 hatchlings still in the brooder. I briefly had my flock to nearly 100, have culled down since, a little more culling to do to select the best of recent generations.

Mine make use of more than five acres, less than thirty - and as @Ridgerunner expressed, the tribe thing is a definite reality. I find that my Roos each stake out a territory/feeding ground, then call for the hens to join them (usually between two and six answer the call). Occasionally, hens...

Yes. Cx here are similar. When I started the project, there were a lot of things I didn't know that I didn't know. The CX grandparent stock are still tightly controlled, and Cobb/Vantive (who sells them to commercial operations) has different guides specific to the "breeder" stock from the...

Following! My own (rambling) thread here. And like my Sig says, I'm learning from failure.

I'm one of those searching for a landrace. Its a long process.

Oh, and here is Snow White, another ffspring of my stupid Cx hen. Hatchling Somewhat later. (about 9 1/2 weeks) and the Freezer camp report at almost 20 weeks.

Here's the bird I bred. Here's one of the offspring (hanging from a scale) - unnamed smutty white hen. HUGE disappointment. /edit Correction, this is a grandchild of the Cx. Here's one of the male offspring - only one that seemed to gain size quickly. and I took another all white bird -...

I bred a broiler. To another of my (non broiler) birds. Part of my culling project - and then spent the next several generations trying to get the Dominant White trait out -which proved persistent, unlike their early development and monster size genes.

16 weeks +/-

They are journalists - they googled/AI'd synonyms for "fired, removed or reduced" with poultry associations, and assumed the news consuming public (average 5th grade level of understanding) didn't know any more than they did.