Meat the Birds!

Considerably more than tins, a bag to feed them, but, if they all survived to adulthood, we should be able to turn a profit on their meat.

Early morning, breakfast picnic on the back of the truck.

We replaced the old wooden feed trough at the chicken coop, because it was too small for the number of chickens. 

Not sure why we didn’t think of this sooner, roughly 70 bucks worth of gutter and spikes, and 10 minutes worth of work, and now both houses have a nice permanent feed trough. 

Always one of their favorite things to do.

Seppi likes looking at them, but he doesn’t want to touch them because they peck him.

Middlest girl, on the other hand, is an old hand at this. She dips every beak in the water, then in the feed, then set them free in their new home.

Just like that, 30 Cornish Cross have a place to live in our chicken brooder.

Five of them are for a 4-H project, the rest are for raising for meat. Of course, the 4-H birds will also become meat, you don’t really keep Cornish cross. They go bad if they don’t get eaten.