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I was wanting to update earlier but wow had it been busy. The first batch of meat birds were moved to a Suscovich style chicken tractor. I added my own swing on it by putting in a roosting bar and a couple of nesting boxes. These guys are ranging from 2lbs to 3.5lbs right now at just past 6...

The next batch hatched! This batch is a mixed bag because I just grabbed a bunch of eggs from the chicken tractor that had the freedom ranger hens when I thought my freedom ranger rooster had hurt himself. Luckily he recovered, but the eggs had still been set. So this is a mix of Freedom...

I took a whole day off on Friday to try to catch up on chicken stuff and chores around the house, and I only got a few things off my list. Hopefully can get the chicks moved this week. The average weight for the Freedom ranger chicks was 426.8g, the lowest being 350g and the highest was 496g...

Got the weights for the 3 week old Bresse and the just slightly younger Freedom Rangers. The egg layer I weighed that is being raised within the group weight 3.31oz. The Bresse were averaging 6.47oz. The biggest being 8.28oz and the smallest 4.51oz. The Freedom ranger chicks average was...

That's when I can move chicken around. I need to collect eggs from the chickens currently in there for my next hatch. Once I get the eggs the space opens up for the chicks. After I clean it up first. Next weekend I have my sister and BIL coming over to help me build another chicken tractor so I...

The two week old Bresse with some Orpington chicks. I found a Bresse chick that had been crushed under the water drinker. Pretty upset with myself on that. The Freedom rangers with their turkeys and 3 egg layer chicks. They really love their wet feed. I notice on both the bigger Bresse and...

Yeah, the USPS does a number to my shipped eggs and chicks even. it's very frustrating. All of my DC chicks were chipmunks when I picked them up as day old chicks. It will be really interesting to see if there is a difference between the chick down when it's e+/e+ or e+/e^b. At some point I...

Comb type is one, the DC crosses will have a large peacomb, while the FR will be a single comb, but even easier is down color. The FR mixes are a yellow/orange chick(e+/e+) and the DC crosses should be a dark chipmunk(E+/e^b). Possibly. Even if I can't determine it by down color, the DC mixes...

I weighted my chicks on Sunday night. The average Freedom ranger chicks was average 138g, the biggest chicks was 200g and the smallest was 95g. The Freedom Ranger F1 Crosses were hatched on March 22nd/23rd, so they were 1 week and 2 days old. The Bresse were hatched on the 18th. Somehow I...

This cutie is the biggest chick from my freedom ranger hatch. They aren’t even a week old now. This weekend I plan to weigh this group and the Bresse, who are about a week older and get the average weight for both groups.

Thank you for that list, the broiler feed was lower so I went out and got the game bird starter feed.

So 24% broiler feed won’t be enough? I’m not against getting more, I’m just trying to clarify.

So 10 out of the 11 Freedom Ranger eggs hatched. The last one appeared to have been a late quit. I had 3 green eggs layer chicks that hatched as well. I added 2 turkeys to the brooder because TSC had them on discount from being older. ONLY TSC will charge you less for a chick they have been...

I originally planned to mix my Columbian Rock and Dark Cornish chickens to see if I got a decent meat bird from them, however this spring I was lucky enough to find a group of grown Freedom Rangers. A Rooster and four hens, all one year old. My new plan is to raise 3 groups of meat chicks by...