Eggs

[Amish Heart]

Straight run chick's are cheaper, and the farm store prices might be a little less too. We have only bought chick's from Murray McMurray or Strombergs. This way we can get only the chick's with the traits that we want.
We just placed an order for stright run meat chickens last night, to be delivered in late June.

How much? And what kind? I'm almost afraid to ask. Last time I ordered, I can't remember what I paid, but I got cornish roosters for their weight. 50 of them. If they're too expensive this year, I'm happy enough with my barnyard mix of heritage breed roosters for meat, they're all heavy weight birds.

 

[SLADE]

I like the taste of a good mixed breed farmyard chicken. Not much meat and kind of tough but stewed I find them tasty. I've raised the cornsh cross and find them as tasteless as commercial chickens.

 

[Mountain trapper]

How much? And what kind? I'm almost afraid to ask. Last time I ordered, I can't remember what I paid, but I got cornish roosters for their weight. 50 of them. If they're too expensive this year, I'm happy enough with my barnyard mix of heritage breed roosters for meat, they're all heavy weight birds.

We bought Cornish Cross this time. I think they were $3.43 each. Last year we went with Buff Orpington. They were good eating but took a long time to get to butcher weight. We also really liked the Ginger Broilers but they haven't been available for a couple of years. The Cornish Cross is a fast growing bird so we save a lot of feed cost.

 

[Tim Horton]

In the ..far frozen north.. we had a motley flock of mostly Isa Brown chickens because they were easily available and cheap.. One year we left a travel cage by the barn at the crazy chicken lady place with a deal to buy 10-12 Isa Brown chickens.. When we picked up the cage there were about another 10-12 extra culls she stuffed in there.. We brought them home, fed them and they laid up a storm of eggs.. We ate, froze, powdered, sold, gave away eggs like crazy.. We had a rooster like on the Kellogg Corn Flakes box, named Cornelius, who just about died trying to ...do his duty... with the flock..

Our biggest and best seller was fertilized eggs.. We got reports of people hatching all kinds of mixed nests of chicks..

 

[Amish Heart]

We bought Cornish Cross this time. I think they were $3.43 each. Last year we went with Buff Orpington. They were good eating but took a long time to get to butcher weight. We also really liked the Ginger Broilers but they haven't been available for a couple of years. The Cornish Cross is a fast growing bird so we save a lot of feed cost.

The last cornish we got down to $1.85 each
Bummer now.