Posts by ericsplls

I consider myself to have a pretty good palate. I can't tell them apart from any of my other eggs.

Quote: Originally Posted by Illia  Honestly if you're gonna put Sex-Link on the list it should go somewhere in the top 3, but then again, EE is number 3 and I highly disagree with that so Back in Utah and here in...

I can't say that the american game is that popular nation wide. I can say that from Georgia to Louisiana there are alot of them. I would say at 1 in 10 people I know around here have american game. About half of them that do raise them...

Looks like a five week old roo to me. It's alot easier to tell when you have several of the same breed. Some lines differ. Some you can sex from day one with the head spot but not the line I am raising. I am hatching...

I have a sebright bantam rooster that has no problem keeping the ladies in line. The downside to a silkie rooster is they can't fly, they aren't big enough to offer any kind of physical protection, and the good ones are vision impared...

I usually go unmedicated but have sat a pallet up on bricks and put the medicated chick starter under there. I put the feeder for the layers on top of the pallet. By the time the chicks get big enough to get up on the pallet I switch...

I would say in the southeast I see few backyard flocks with austrolorps. Here it would go RIR, Barred Rock, Orpington, Easter Egger, American Game.   

The first thing you need is a spacious predator proof coop. Then I would put three wires on your dog run. One close to the ground that is on the extensions that put the electric fence about six inches from the fence. Then another in...

I have an A frame coop I call a halfway house. Half of it is closed off and the other half is open  I put chicks out at 3 weeks with a heat lamp in the closed off section. One thing to think about is even if they can stay warm...

There's no fence tall enough to keep guineas in. I have seen them in the tops of tall pine trees. Just wandering how do you plan to contain the goat.