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thanks!

These are Berkshires! They have amazing temperaments and insanely marbled pork

@@mcdonaldfarm2925 Berkshires have delicious chops and wonderful bacon, sausage. Chris Leigh's Wonder Pork from Rankin, Illinois sells Berkshire meat off his farms.

Absolutely. A big mama found a little cactus patch to herself and snuck a hatch in on us last year. One must be diligent to collect eggs often. When we do that, we don’t have any brooding issues.

Not yet!

Did you see the size of that chicken? 😂

Big mamas in the chicken run! Can be scary to collect eggs from under these giant hens! You could make a week of meals from them at this size though.

Says the guy who’s obviously never owned a pig and knows nothing about farming.

If quail are big enough to eat, then so are bantam chickens, dwarf rabbits and any other small breed variety livestock. Bigger means more feed, heavier fencing, more destructive capability, heavier lifting during butcher and so on. Along with needing enough freezer space and those can stop working when the power quits. Like a few million americans are now dealing with still or again. Not to mention not all households that can raise their own livestock have many mouths too feed. I for one have no use for standard breed size meat rabbits, i don't need them that big and i don't want to handle breeders that big that i have to lift in and out of cages. So my adults are about 1.8kg/4lbs and the kits make 3-4 meals for me. Fits my situation right. So work with what fits you and makes the animals happy, some need a bigger group to be happy, smaller breed will make that possible for same weight of meat in the freezer.

You're not supposed to raise potbellies for meat. You raise them for fat to grind with deer, which is otherwise too lean to make a decent breakfast sausage.

We have 108 acres they free range on. They are not confined all the time. We kept them inside for the day to get a good headcount and sort out our breeding stock vs birds to sell that year.

@@samantharodgers7280 Sounds good. I am learning as I go. My Rooster that I raised since a baby just started coming at me. I love him, so it's hard.

Not enough!

Ah of course!

We ate that pork a year ago brother, didn’t know being in over my head would feel so good…

@@mcdonaldfarm2925this is like saying you have to wash a deer or cow and I’ve never in my 21 years of existence heard of to hot to butcher

Purebred berkshires. They were processed in September 2023 and weighed about 300lbs each

Great question! Because our new piglets were on the way. Much better results with Berkshires.

Not much fat but still good eatin

@@mcdonaldfarm2925 Keep the cutlery sharp!

I can’t say for sure because it’s my first harvest. Hoping to get more next year.

Hatching eggs locally Mcdonaldfarmtx@gmail

They are drama queens but we love them!

Around 5 or 6 hours

no sorry

couple days, was lovely

Full grown hens

Thanks, they are flying this memorial day weekend, folks posting around Georgetown with swarms in there yards.

I gave them the best 6 frames I salvaged from the trashed hive.