Wow, that looks awful. I hope they also did a review on the McMurray site so they know and can try to do some better breeding or something. I was excited about these Delawares because they've gotten such good reviews. I wonder if this is a fluke or if it's common. Either way, I'm glad I saw this...
These New Hampshires sound great!!! Thanks for all the updates. I hope one day to have a dual purpose flock like yours. That's got to be such a great feeling to have meat and eggs all coming from one flock that's replenishing itself. For now, I have a layer flock and do meat birds (CX for now...
Makes sense! I wasn't criticizing, was just genuinely curious since I haven't tried to pluck anything more than 8 weeks old yet haha.
And yeah, that sounds like a yucky experience. The smell of wet birds is already gross and in the heat... I don't even want to know!
Those weights sound nice! Congrats :)
And I'm sorry to hear you have an egg eater. She may need to go in the stew pot if the usual tricks don't work lol. That's just bad luck though. You have so few hens and one turns out to be an egg eater! :thI'm sure you already know this stuff but make sure...
Also following this because I hope to have a dual purpose flock one day, once we are able to move somewhere with more land and no rooster restriction. These New Hampshires look good and there are also a few other dual purpose breeds I'm interested in, like McMurray's Delawares.
With these, have...