Game Fowl School !!!!

Chickens are on a seven day cycle from the time the eggs start incubating 'till the day they die. It takes three seven day cycles to hatch or 21 days, thus the two week keep. On day one, I spared mine, that and the putting them in the fly pens would knock them back and start them on my seven day cycle. The object being to have them peak on fight day. I fed mine basicly what I fed all year, which was no.1 pidgeon grain, laying pellets and oat groats along with an occasional ball of meat and bonemeal off of a meat saw and other days a ball of canned fish. I kept mine wormed, so I didn't worry about that and you could buy all kinds of vitamins that were guarenteed to make them whip a buzzsaw. Great breeding and year round good care, and keeping a sharp eye on their weight, was hard to beat. The last few days of the keep, you reduced the work and started trying to control the moisture. If you had good well cared for birds and got the moisture right, you were going to be hard to beat.