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.

updated July 2

thurs am we had one hen singing the" laying an egg" song.........the roo was doing his" she is laying dance and song".......very funny as it was the first time any of mine laid.She actually laid two,with one breaking on the floor of her night cage................the other was whole and weighed 50 grams.The color was mostly brown with about 1/4 white.

She is out hiding again after singing her laying song again.She found an old cardboard box ,thats where she is hiding now as we build a nest for her .


She is only 4 and a half months old ,having been born Feb6,2009


The pics show yesterdays egg at 50 grams next to a white store bought egg also weighing 50 grams


three new pics added todat 6/27......shows the original egg ,a store bought and her third day egg.It is 50 % bigger now.....75 grams


Thurs 7/2.....................found a " stash " of 5 eggs over in the grass ranging area.....so its at least two laying,......we have to go on an egg hunt now.....maybe its all three

Pictures coming latter today are assorted Chickens

45 day broilers by Hubbard

One Farmers Choice Rooster

Assorted Sunshine hens and roosters,the roos (4) have been reserved for a customer and the hens(7) will stay with me for eggs,along with 3 other Sunshine hens and the farmers Choice roo.

Home on the range Updated June 7,09 Sunday

44 day old French Free Range Chickens ( Sunshine )

Just eating the good grasses.