{"id":147,"date":"2009-04-30T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-04-30T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T13:37:25","slug":"label-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/label-rouge\/","title":{"rendered":"Label Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do to the extreme temperature swings here in Central Oregon we decided to book end our production with Label Rouge birds. \u00a0These birds are designed to thrive on a pasture model. \u00a0So far they have done well. \u00a0We sampled weight at 7 weeks and averaged about 4 lbs. \u00a0Not too bad. \u00a0They still have 3 to 4 weeks to go. \u00a0This is also our first batch with our own ration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mortalities have been minimal&#8230;one during brooding (never developed feathers) and a couple on the pasture (at least one was pinched during pen moves). \u00a0They are great looking birds and have done well consuming pasture grass. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148\" title=\"img00217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00217-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Label Rouge at 3 1\/2 weeks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00217-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00217-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00217.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Label Rouge at 3 1\/2 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Down side is the breast&#8230;I doubt we will have too much luck marketing these birds. \u00a0First off, our price per pound is higher due to the longer grow out time and second, they will be less breasty than the Cornish Cross. \u00a0On the upside, this is a great bird to raise. \u00a0They have been hard workers on the pasture, we have had no picking or aggressive behavior and they have been very hardy during the tough spring months. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In general this feels like the right bird to raise; however, the market will have to be the judge. \u00a0Razor breasted birds have a tough time making it to the dinner table. \u00a0We will see&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154\" title=\"img00226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00226-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Label Rouge at 7 weeks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00226-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00226-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img00226.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Label Rouge at 7 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do to the extreme temperature swings here in Central Oregon we decided to book end our production with Label Rouge birds. \u00a0These birds are designed to thrive on a pasture model. \u00a0So far they have done well. \u00a0We sampled weight at 7 weeks and averaged about 4 lbs. \u00a0Not too bad. \u00a0They still have 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}