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Ours are already a month old. Ran around and asked everybody near me for a handful of fertile eggs each, total grab bag of genetics… it’s fun. Frizzles, naked necks, giants, I was hoping for a seabright but it appears not.
Also, try ducks. So much more fun, less pokey to hold, eggs are better IMO, and they put on weight as fast as Cornish.
I had a pet duck as a kid and he was very sweet to hold. I would put a towel on my lap incase he had to drop a duck deuce but I don't recall that ever happening. There's not a lot of birds you can hug like that.
They have the greatest personalities.
Duck duece. 🤣
Concur on ducks. They're also incredibly messy.
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I have ducks, and babies on the way. I have a mixed batch of chickens majority are Jersey Giants.
Total respect then.
Local guy has chickens that are huge, rooster is easily 8” taller than the 40# propane tank that is in his area. Stilll trying to get some eggs…
You'll be waiting a long time. Roosters generally don't lay eggs, but that of course assumes the rooster is male.
What breed is the roo?
We have some Jersey Giants on order. Most of our flocks are buff orpingtons, barred rock, Rhode Island reds, and Easter eggers. We want to see if we can get some chickens with larger breasts.
Do you also eat them? I was curious why people do ducks of chickens give good eggs.
Heck ya. They are delicious, better than rabbit for small homestead and more fat, which is why you can’t live on rabbit. They clean fast too, just skin them. Plucking is a thing I have never understood how people justify that much time… duck can be served in all sorts of ways, but duck breast cooks up like a good filet mignon.
I have a homemade chicken plucker, works great. Takes me about 4 minutes per bird, from kill to in the ice water. Thinking about a drill attachment for ducks because you can’t scald them. What breed of duck do you do? We have some silver appleyards that are still young.
I never tried duck, but their eggs are better than chickens.
Ducks are so much easier. They don't peck each other to death. In fact, they won't fight at all if you raise them together and only keep one male past maturity. Even if you break these rules that won't fight much. They can handle colder weather (they don't need a coop in most of the US, just a predator-proof run). The two big downsides are they they poop a huge amount and they are hard to pluck.
Ducks and chickens taste differently, as do their eggs. It makes for good variation, though ultimately you get better yield with the chickens.
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