Posts by sbarab

I went. Got nothing. Probably a good thing. Not as many vendors as there were last fall.  Last fall it was raining.  Mostly chicks.  Alot of pheasants, pet-type birds and pea fowl.  Everywhere you turned there were...

Conroe, TX Animal Trading Days 5/16 @ Montgomery County Fairgrounds.  Gates open at 8 am.All kinds of animals.  Usually mostly chickens. Anyone going?

Red wattles & combs.

I think you've got 4 roos.

We cut off the wing tips & pulled out the long feathers before skinning.  Surprisingly, the meaties do not have feathers like a laying breed.

My kids told me that they fed them yesterday. Here's the story of how I got them.  I have a friend, Kevin, who knew I have chickens.  One of his friends' kids have an FFA or 4H fair project going on and was going to have 100...

Thanks for the advice on what to feed my Free Cornish x Meaties that were county fair culls.  We butchered them last night.  I didn't feed them anything yesterday and their crops were still full of scratch.  I'm not sure...

The Arizona stuff is pretty sweet.  You could probably get away w/ adding 1 cup of sugar per gallon of tea.  But experiment with it of course.... It could be his big taste testing project for the weekend. 

Here is how I make iced tea... I'm a southerner (transplant really).boil 2-3 cups of water in your teapot.  Add teabags (I like Tetley) & Steep about 5 minutes.  5 small teabags or 2 large teabags for 2 quarts of tea. ...

Thanks everone!  Its hard not to look at them and start thinking about mouthwatering chicken dinner.  I gave them some layer pellets this morning (it was what I had on hand) and bought a bag of scratch for them this...