updates

Layers updated again on Sun Sept 13

Professor Chicken is.......

David Sullenberger, Avian Ecologist; Consulting Poultry Biologist
a.k.a. ProfessorChicken www.ProfessorChicken.com
Formerly: Department of Biology, New Mexico State University
Formerly: Owner, TimeWarrior Farm Rare Breed Conservation Reserve
Author/Publisher: The TimeWarrior Farm Chronicles - a series of short papers dealing with free range poultry production.
Lecturer: EcoVersity de Santa Fe.
Lecturer: Numerous USDA/State Extension seminars RE: Small Scale Poultry Production, in several states.
Lecturer: NM Organic Commodity Commission Annual Conference, numerous occasions.
Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor: USDA/WSARE "Egg Improvement Project".
etc., etc., yada, yada on and on for several lines of text which are ultimately useless
because with all the above - it STILL takes $4.75 to buy a Latte in most places in Santa Fe!

Its the grass man

First check below post for Sept 2 update on latest Hubbard Flex news



Robert Plamondon . I'm going to spill the big secret to producing better-tasting eggs: it's the grass, man!No, not that kind of grass! Ordinary grass, clover and other pasture plants, I mean.Happy outdoor chickens that are allowed to run around on a grassy area will eat a lot of grass and other succulent plants. These plants don't have many calories, but they're loaded with vitamins, minerals, and flavor..................................................................................thats from robert's blog....goggle him........................................................................................Fely had 39 eggs in the last 13 days of August from three pullets......aged 6mos only...they arent hens yet,will be 7 mos in two weeks

Layers and Rooster-updated Sept 8,2009

this week the three are seven months old and the seven are 5 months old...we have been getting as many as 7 eggs per day this week......weighing from 75 grams to 100 grams


Sept8.........from spet 1 to sept7 we have 28 eggs.......some days three,some days five.....so i guess we now have 5 pullets laying.We weighed 7 as a sample.....three at 75 grams......two at 90 grams and two at 100 grams.
70 grams = large,80 and over = jumbo


The Sunshine layers and their Farmers Choice Rooster at play are the pictures opposite.

The Roo is 6 months old and 5.0 kilos......

Three hens are also 6 months and 4.75.....3.75 ......and 3.25 kilos,they are laying now for a month and a half.


Seven hens are 4 months old and not laying yet.Weights are 5 at 2.75k each and 2 at 3.0 kilos.Not yet laying

Hubbard Flex-Update at 10 days

While getting feed at Pacifica Agivet Sun they got in an order of Class B Hubbards.........we decided we would try some and purchased 25 as a test.

They are alert, active ,seem healthy enough.They are small.......average of 36 grams instead of the normal 40-43 grams.Pics will n uploaded now........also in the slide show are other Hubbards from July 11th birth.

as od todat ..the weight average is up to 90 grms from the original 36 grams.......progress is actually pretty decent for class B chicks.

Hubbard ' broilers' at 25 days-Updated Sept 2 2009

Never got to finish weights........all 49 out original 50 were sold live at 120 piso each.







At 25 days...we have an average weight of 670 grams.........with a consumption average of 870 grams of feed............2 deaths........which is 4%....not good but not bad either,considering it s been very bad monsoon rains here I Bacolod City

Average weights today was 1405 grams,nice improvement.Thirty-nine days now....we will start to butcher the larger one on Sun.

Nesting area

a new nest area finished Fri......................six on the bottom and six on the top.............its more than enough for my few layers..................but at least I wont have to expand for awhile ( if ever ).


These free range eggs are great tasting and the color of the yolk s is a very deep orange.