Posts by pigeonguy

Got my HRIR 10 of them 4 and 5 months old. Drove to Orion IL. last night got 10 for 100 dollars. They are cull birds out of show stock crooked toes mostly I just wanted heritage and not hatchery and not for breeding just laying and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Leahs Mom  PG - sounds like you do use wooden feeders? I have some from when I had the pigeons 3 and four feet long years old and built from skid (pallet) wood Dad says it is...

Quote: Originally Posted by Leahs Mom  Except - I may want to have my husband make me a wooden trough to feed from.   Stony - if you were going to make a wooden feed-trough, what wood would you...

Quote: Originally Posted by Leahs Mom    PG - on the Heritage RIR - Will these be started pullets or chicks?  If started, how will you integrate them in with the existing flock? They will be...

Quote: Originally Posted by delisha  My I ask why they are not allowed by your main flock? One BCMs Roo has greenish legs. One BCMs Roo is way way to mossy. The other 2 are EEs and I don't let anything but BCMs Roos...

All about 8 months old. Layers 16 Black Copper Marans  2 easter eggers   Cockerels  3 Black Copper Marans   Future culls (not included above) These are not allowed around my main flock. 2 BCMs...

We go around and get straw bails from what people put around their house in the winter about 40 to 50 bails a year. FREE. To prep I run the mower over the straw from the previous year to chop it so it will rototil in better. Garden is...

Quote: Originally Posted by cywiar merch  Its really good to read  all of this and see other perspectives.  I too was someone that read that DE was a sort of de wormer and anti mite and lice.  I...

Quote: Originally Posted by lalaland  about metal waterers - I've used galvinzed metal waterers in the warm months for more than a decade and a half and never had any problems .   RIght now, given it is still...

I want to help lalaland I am at a loss though. You don't use and metal feeders or waters right. Are there any metal containers in there free range area they could be drinking from. Do you have any mouse/rat poison out anywhere. Have...