I need to know where to get that hanging scale!!! I do mine after dark and make them stand on a little kitchen scale. . . Not the best when they're flustered. So, I noticed you guys don't talk a lot about larger bones vs smaller bones when you're weighing them. I have some the same-ish age and I'm noticing that some shoot up in height instead of putting on muscle. Do you guys already have that honed in to where you're not having to manage that aspect? I have 2 from one line and 2 from another line I'm still debating on & I think back length is going to be a significant factor for mine after looking at that last shot of your 6!
@@lmullens75 yes if you watch several of our other videos and this one you noticed that I’m talking about looking at them and feeling of them. I want to feel meat on a birds. Some birds can just be all legs and height and no meat to speak of. We are very happy with the birds that we have and what they’re producing. Of course nobody’s going to produce all great birds, but we’re getting most wonderful ones, we’re also wanting length as we stated in the video.
Got remember 10-14 week ages are the Awkward growth ages Bone to meat ratio is crazy. Usally by age 15 weeks it averages out. Anyone who raised turkeys will understand the awkward stages. The American bresse are actually slightly bigger than French bresse. I had batch of bresse in spring who put on weight very fast and I ended up with some hip issues having to cull few at 12 weeks. Same feed same incubator just genetics I guess I rather not say farm they came from. Still can’t pin point why this occurred! Just be cautious of breeders who try and change to much at once. Stick to the standards they are medium structured birds hence they can fly and move out quick incase ground predator or air predator comes. I seen mine out smart Mr Fox on numerous occasions
@@mikemacinnes6120 yes, we were bulking ours up for meat for the freezer. A few of those birds were already good size birds, but had lost weight from being ran around and picked on, so we fed them extra to get the weight back on to know if we still wanted to keep those birds as breeders. We normally go all natural. This is the only year we fed anything different before freezer time and we only fed once a day in the morning and we gave them milk and their food. We did not give the food twice a day and the one that we have that is 6.75 pounds doesn’t really look ovary large at all. He is just super meaty! if he had been an ugly bird, we would not have kept him. He is beautiful in all other ways also so are the other two we kept.
@@hippiechickoffgridmaine8625 The structure is a pen we ordered from Amazon. Gary put up a video series of building it in early spring. You can see how he did it if you go and look at the videos of “Chicken build” he does have it staked down for sure😊
Thanks for the great info!
Thank you for sharing this video. Lots of information. Love it. Take care from Cape Cod✌️🇺🇸
@@charlenegrady8781 You are welcome and Thank You for watching!
I'm really enjoying this video. I get it. I do this with my duck breeders.
We saw you have ducks and geese. We don’t have ducks, but we sure love our geese!❤️
I need to know where to get that hanging scale!!! I do mine after dark and make them stand on a little kitchen scale. . . Not the best when they're flustered. So, I noticed you guys don't talk a lot about larger bones vs smaller bones when you're weighing them. I have some the same-ish age and I'm noticing that some shoot up in height instead of putting on muscle. Do you guys already have that honed in to where you're not having to manage that aspect? I have 2 from one line and 2 from another line I'm still debating on & I think back length is going to be a significant factor for mine after looking at that last shot of your 6!
@@lmullens75 yes if you watch several of our other videos and this one you noticed that I’m talking about looking at them and feeling of them. I want to feel meat on a birds. Some birds can just be all legs and height and no meat to speak of. We are very happy with the birds that we have and what they’re producing. Of course nobody’s going to produce all great birds, but we’re getting most wonderful ones, we’re also wanting length as we stated in the video.
Got remember 10-14 week ages are the
Awkward growth ages Bone to meat ratio is crazy. Usally by age 15 weeks it averages out. Anyone who raised turkeys will understand the awkward stages. The American bresse are actually slightly bigger than French bresse. I had batch of bresse in spring who put on weight very fast and I ended up with some hip issues having to cull few at 12 weeks. Same feed same incubator just genetics I guess I rather not say farm they came from. Still can’t pin point why this occurred! Just be cautious of breeders who try and change to much at once. Stick to the standards they are medium structured birds hence they can fly and move out quick incase ground predator or air predator comes. I seen mine out smart Mr Fox on numerous occasions
@@mikemacinnes6120 yes, we were bulking ours up for meat for the freezer. A few of those birds were already good size birds, but had lost weight from being ran around and picked on, so we fed them extra to get the weight back on to know if we still wanted to keep those birds as breeders. We normally go all natural. This is the only year we fed anything different before freezer time and we only fed once a day in the morning and we gave them milk and their food. We did not give the food twice a day and the one that we have that is 6.75 pounds doesn’t really look ovary large at all. He is just super meaty! if he had been an ugly bird, we would not have kept him. He is beautiful in all other ways also so are the other two we kept.
@@mikemacinnes6120 Also we breed for the standard. We breed birds that complement each other. A smaller hen will get a bigger boy.
@@lmullens75 we ordered the scale from Amazon. It works great!
What is your structure you are under? Any problems with wind lifting it up? I'm sure you've got it either weighted or pinned down?
@@hippiechickoffgridmaine8625 The structure is a pen we ordered from Amazon. Gary put up a video series of building it in early spring. You can see how he did it if you go and look at the videos of “Chicken build” he does have it staked down for sure😊
Are the rest of the cocharel for sale?
@@MarioLopez-ob5rv I’m sorry no. They went in our freezer😊