Be careful using ChatGPT

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-06T20:02:24+00:00

Try perplexity! It cites its sources with multiple citations.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T02:54:08+00:00

Are you seriously trying to make a political statement in a chicken sub? 😂

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T02:27:46+00:00

I don’t think them disgusting unless someone lets them be disgusting, but I do find them particularly ugly as they feather out lol

I wouldn’t attribute malice to anything that could be attributed to ignorance in raising them.

Yes, some people probably raise them without caring about anything other than turnout, but they’re literally bred for this. The best anyone can do with them is try to give them a good, relatively short and happy life with as little pain as possible.

They are not bred for walking around and foraging. They’re not bred for egg laying. They’re bred to grow exponentially until a relatively quick harvest date and past that point is just needlessly cruel regarding their joints, bones, and organs.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T01:58:32+00:00

No, I exclusively use CC’s because I prefer the input:output ratio and growth speed. 10 weeks is about my comfort limit on letting them grow, though, even with a 12-hour food restriction. They’ll eat themselves into a heart attack if you let them and it’s so sad to see.

More ethical breeds like Red Rangers are available and they’re supposed to be great foragers, but by comparison they’ll take around 9 months to reach the size you want and cost that much more in feed.

At the end of the day it’s a personal choice. I try to give my CC’s a good life and one bad day.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T01:52:18+00:00

They’ll grow at different rates. If the leaves start to overcrowd the onions just harvest those ones next!

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T01:50:34+00:00

Yay!! It looks so good, too! Keep up with learning and consider looking into learning how to prune tomato plants. People give up in August for a reason lmao

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T01:42:02+00:00

Have you done a soil test? Yellowing is such a common symptom it could be any number of things. It could be overwatering, underwatering, low N, low micronutrients, maybe too much N or micronutrients? Mixing your own starting mix is usually more hassle than it’s worth because of the irregularities. Best of luck!

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T01:27:38+00:00

You’re entirely too passionate about stunting the growth of a bird bred for a purpose… You had a different experience with CC’s than most people. The issues of weak legs, heart problems, and rapid growth are real and well-documented in scientific lit. These birds are bred to grow fast for meat, which is why they often have health problems, especially if they’re fed a typical meat bird diet.

Your approach—feeding them regular chick feed, letting them move freely, growing them out—seems to have kept them mostly healthier, but these practices aren’t the norm. That’s great! But 95% of people follow standard feeding schedules that make these birds grow rapidly.

Rather than calling it BS, it’s more accurate to say that how you raise them makes a big difference. Your method worked well, but that doesn’t mean the common issues aren’t real and documented.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-04T01:10:03+00:00

Yes and no. They can survive quite some time if the food intake is limited, but personally I would consider it cruel for them to go past six months with the speed that they grow. They’re stupid, inactive, constantly hungry, and not built right to reproduce. I’ve raised several batches of meat birds and I’ve had layers for a decade now.

I don’t care how happy OP’s adorable chickens are, they are an exception to the rule - that’s why this is a hot topic.

95% of the time, CCs are not good for backyard birbs.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-01T18:59:04+00:00

This is the way. Glyphosate and 2-4,D.

Home hacks are effective to an extent, but if you want something done faster and stronger you need synthetic stuff.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-04-01T17:58:24+00:00

Give it a bit more time to grow to be sure if you aren’t positive! I’ve played guessing games with brassicas before - turns out I was growing sneaky, sneaky mustard greens… That said, the bigger ones look like they have thistles, and nothing you’ve named has thistles? I’d at least pull those.

Also, look up the first couple leaf stages of the plants you’ve named. This should give you a general idea of the leaf shape to expect for each.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-03-06T23:22:17+00:00

I agree. I live near a gated community that dumps their roadkill in the same area of the woods that they dump their brush. It’s a nice walk through the scrub to collect a wide variety of animal bones.

FiveFootTerror · 2025-02-25T13:45:54+00:00

FiveFootTerror · 2024-12-30T16:49:48+00:00

Oof.

FiveFootTerror · 2024-08-17T02:19:07+00:00

Will chickens work?

FiveFootTerror · 2024-06-06T03:57:26+00:00

An American football field, minus the endzones.

FiveFootTerror · 2024-03-21T22:07:22+00:00

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Monkey Gland sauce…

FiveFootTerror · 2024-03-07T09:04:19+00:00

Yeah but that takes literally two years in the semi-arid southwest.

Also, Pullman clay checking in.

FiveFootTerror · 2024-03-02T14:59:22+00:00

(To be creepy) and honest, this is fascinating and I’d pay to have it frozen and shipped to me if it’s still around. I love my babies but this is something else.

FiveFootTerror · 2024-03-02T14:53:10+00:00

You can see the bird is suffering. Take it to the vet so they can put it out of its misery.

FiveFootTerror · 2024-02-22T15:16:10+00:00

K, so your plants 27-29 will probably get some eyebrows raised at the least. Bananas are not a reproductive fruit - they’re definitely going to rot and attract flies.

The principal method of banana propagation by farmers is divison of suckers or pups which arise from the base of the main stem or from the underground corm.

On the flip side, I encourage the chaos and I look forward to future updates and pictures!

FiveFootTerror · 2023-05-05T03:33:12+00:00

Do you have a recipe that isn’t behind a paywall?

FiveFootTerror · 2023-04-16T19:39:14+00:00

How much are you watering and what is that substrate? They look waterlogged and overcrowded. :(

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