Posts by TheSpeckledRoo

Nothing tastes better than farm fresh meat! When I raise meat birds like that i will feed them turkey feed for the first two weeks. They explode in side. You just have to make sure you place their food and water on top of a ramp so...

Egg laying has everything to do with the breed. A leghorn seems to lay every single day (sometimes twice), while a cornish lays fewer eggs 

Do you have any nice neighbors or family close by? When i go away I will have my neighbor look after my girls. 

I have a Buff Orpington that will always run up to me when i reach their pen. She will sit on my feet when i am standing. If i sit down inside the pen she will jump up on my shoulder and perch there. I looovveee Buff Orps!

Quote: Originally Posted by Sally8  I am so sorry. I didn't think they would explode so soon. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me will read and help. I don't have Welsummers but I do have pure BCM I could give...

So i just wanted to update everyone on my eggs. If you can all remember, i had eggs shipped in. It took 5 days to arrive at my house and the mailman left my eggs on the concrete floor of my garage which was very cold (winter here)....

I do the same thing with the bowl. I have a LG with the automatic turner. If i do a staggered hatch i just take out a few of the rails. That way the eggs that are not in lockdown are still turning and what not. Seems to work pretty...

Did you let them hatch inside the carton? I have never heard of that before. I thought you had to lay them on their side.

Quote: Originally Posted by Peggy-Sue  TI feel the same way... But for some reason I have spent the past 4 hours on BYC reading posts and following this form!!!!!!!!!! This forum is very addicting. It has SOOOOO...

If i was a chicken... thats what i would want to eat