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11-25-17

• 5 turkeys
• 1 rooster
• 13 olek chicks
• 12 cb chicks
• 20 hens, 12 pullets (estimate) (32 total)

11-24-17

• 3 cockreals to processing (leaving 0)
• 12 turkeys to processing (leaving 1 tom, 4 hens)
• 3 cb chick dead over the past week (they're free-range outside without lights protected by a turkey)

11-20-17

• eat 1 turkey (leaving 17)
• sold 2 cockreals
• racoon kill 1 cockreals, one pullet
• hatch 16 chicks

11-10-17

• 16 hens in chicken house
• 4 broody in box
• 13 pullets in box
• 16 laying, 33 total

• 13 olek chicks in box
• 5 cockreals
• 2 roosters
• 24 eggs in incubator 1.5 weeks to go
• 18 turkeys

9-5-16

• 29 chickens
  • 3 roosters
  • 6 olek meat birds?
  • 9 old hens
  • 11 new hens?
  • 10+ new hens

questions

• not USDA!
• price is as expected.
• what time to arrive Friday get birds placed inside for the night? Guy leaves at 4:30pm
  • if inside, is there a pen? No pen.
• after vacuum packing birds, do you have chilled storage until I arrive? Pickup is Sunday between 9am 10am, birds will be chilled for 24 hrs at 35F.
• Bring my own ice.
• Giblits are packaged separately by type
• Feet that are in good condition can be returned
• Labels are safety labels and weight. No USDA.
• Would you process geese for extra? Not on this date. They use wax.

broilers (Aug 2016)

• bw=[ .4, 1.01, 1.99, 3.28, 4.78, 6.36, 7.93, 9.41, 10.76]; % male bird weight
• fw=[.36, 1.11, 2.48, 4.54, 7.24, 10.49, 14.13, 18.03, 22.05];  % feed weight

• cost = 5+2.15+fw*14.5/50; cost_per_pound = cost'./(bw'*.85); % $5 for processing $2.5 for bird, $14.5/50 lbs
• plot(bw/2.2);
• Hatched Aug 24th. (Wed)
• week, date, expected weight lb, daily feed of 50
• 1 weeks 9-1, 0.4  ; 2.6
• 2 weeks 9-7 1.01 ; 5.4
• 3 weeks 9-14 1.99  ; 9.8
• 4 weeks 9-21 3.28  ; 14.7
• 5 weeks 9-28 4.78  ; 19.3
• 6 weeks 10-5 6.36  ; 23.2
• 7 weeks 10-12 7.93  ; 26
• 8 weeks 10-19 9.41  ; 27.8
• 9 weeks 10-26 10.76 ; 28.7

• http://www.welphatchery.com/cornish_rock_care
• http://www.freedomrangerhatchery.com/products.asp
• http://www.freerangechicken.com/article75005.htm
• week 1 - 150 grams
• week 2 - 350 to 360 grams
• week 3.43 - 897g (ave of 6)
• week 4 - 1050g (or 1005g) ave of 6
• week 6 - 2.418kg (ave of 14)
• week 7+1.5days = 3.58 'ave' of 5 hand selected (10-13 6pm  : 3.3, 3.3,3.6,3.8, 3.9 = 3.58kg); expected weight 3.79 or about 2 day behind
• bwa=[.15, .355, .897]; twa=[1,2,3.43]; plot(bw/2.2); hold on; plot(twa, bwa,'ro'); hold off

• (603) 554-5856  ; http://www.granitestatepoultry.com/
• no longer processing - http://lemayandsonsbeef-bbq.com/contact-us/
  • recommends paul 603-738-0458
• Oct 22 6am processing date
• http://www.cornerstone-farm.com/processing-info/

Final Tally

• 42 birds

w=[313 280 273 324 280 331 270 330 298 340]; w3=[888 980 844 789 888 881 882 866];

• average of 24 : 2.924
• mean of 10 : 3.039 , std 268g
• mean of 34 : 2.958 (6.5076lbs)
• 273 lbs

hatches

mother royal palm

• 4-8-15 - brown and yellow
• 4-16-15? yellow (about 9 days to follow RP without trouble)
• 4-25-15 : black beauty Meg and I hatched at 8pm, but in the morning was in the water.

artificial incubation

• 4-17-15 - started JC eggs (12), ~6 of YM, and ~19 turkeys
• 4-25-15 - checked, 100% developing! But butterfingers dropped two.
• 4-28-15 - started 18 JC eggs

expected hatch dates

• 5-8-15 ~15 chickens
• 5-15-15 ~19 turkeys

natural incubation

What a mess - total chaos. Two turkeys (bronze, RPbaby) sharing a nest. Add a 2nd nest and now they're switching nests. Will move 1 nest to inside RP pen at night. Might well let them be started in their hatching home.

Estimate they actually started incubation around 4-22-15. (They'd been sitting on the eggs at night, but then would leave nest during the day.)

• 4-26-15 : Marked turkeys eggs with X, those from nest 2 with X and O