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[Dave in Indiana]

How you gonna do the wings?

You mean cook or clip?

[Dave in Indiana]

[Genesee Ted]

Cook!

[Dave in Indiana]

[Dave in Indiana]

[cavman]

They grow fast.

[Dave in Indiana]

They grow fast.

 

90 days old.  Butchering tomorrow.

[neddles]

90 days old.  Butchering tomorrow.

 

Want.

[Vagus]

This thread has enhungered me.

[BlueBoy]

90 days old. Butchering tomorrow.

Pull an “Ozzy”, pretend it’s a bat, profit

[Dave in Indiana]

Pull an “Ozzy”, pretend it’s a bat, profit

 

Off to the butcher, instead lol

 

[Dave in Indiana]

I feel pretty dumb asking but the “90 days old” includes egg “gestation?” I’m so confused.

But I really want to learn

 

90 days from when I hatched them.  They hatched around 9/2.   {They take 21 days to hatch once you put them on the incubator}

 

What else would you like to know? ... I've hatched - must to the chagrin of my wife - 100's of chicks in the basement.

[VolFan]

What does the butcher charge?

[Dave in Indiana]

What does the butcher charge?

 

$3 a bird

[VolFan]

My curiosity is peaked. What's your total cost per bird....from eggs to butcher? Organic chickens are damn expensive at the store. 

[Dave in Indiana]

Well, the first round will be the most expensive.  Got these eggs off eBay.  Got 16 eggs, 12 hatched - which is a really good hatch rate for shipped eggs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am butchering 10 and saved a rooster and a hen back -- so the next set of eggs is "free" - Here's the 2 that got the reprieve lol

 

[Vagus]

Did you count the chickens before or after they hatched?

[VolFan]

Yep you’re correct. Good catch.

[VolFan]

I need Dave to send me some organic chickens.

[djinkc]

Balut would have been quicker