01-05-2023, 01:14 PM
We started 10 months ago with 10 chick's.
1 died within a few days.
Since around June we pull an egg a bird daily.
Save for a recent decline to 6 a day and earlier a couple of the hens went broody for a couple weeks.
Just after the Christmas deep freeze one of the ladies became a red tailed hawk snack.
We have since shut down all free range time. I built a fairly large covered run for them and have an electric poultry net for ground predators.
I'm trying to convince myself to do a run of about 50 Cornish cross meat birds next.
1 died within a few days.
Since around June we pull an egg a bird daily.
Save for a recent decline to 6 a day and earlier a couple of the hens went broody for a couple weeks.
Just after the Christmas deep freeze one of the ladies became a red tailed hawk snack.
We have since shut down all free range time. I built a fairly large covered run for them and have an electric poultry net for ground predators.
I'm trying to convince myself to do a run of about 50 Cornish cross meat birds next.