Posts by Nestled Chickens

I have a few broody hens sitting on nests right now.  I have only 9 nest boxes for 30-40 hens, so things get crowded quickly when hens are broody.  We've found that just leaving them alone, but taking the chick as soon as it...

They are about 9 weeks old.  We were looking for the characteristic green of the bile sack, but couldn't find it...it was really weird.  My husband thought he had burst it on accident.  We had a few where the inside of...

We processed 10 of our 20 cornish cross this morning.  Some had spotty looking livers.  Some looked like they didn't have a bile sack.  Is this just what cornish cross are like? 

LOL!  Never!  I live on 15 acres and my four guinea are SO LOUD and the sound travels forever.  Anytime there is a disturbance (car coming down the driveway, strange bird in a tree, people looking through the fence),...

We processed two guinea yesterday.  They are very hard to catch, so we trapped them in our chicken house and two of us worked together.  Their feathers were very hard to pluck (compared to the roosters we did at the same...

We butcher ours.  I'm always surprised how skinny they are when all those feathers are gone:)  We probably burn more calories chasing them down and plucking the feathers than we get from eating them, but oh well!  

Thank you!  I don't mind having an odd bird here and there...I have a whole pile of "barnies" that I hatched last year, some are americauna mixes.  The more the merrier!

  It came home with a batch of Gold Sex-Links.  What is it?  It is about three weeks old, maybe four...  

I call these "bush eggs" since I find them in the bushes.  I just make sure I eat them first.  DH thinks they should all go, but I just bake them into something and he never knows.

I'm giving in and adding light.  I can't live without my farm fresh eggs.  What kind of light bulb do we use?  What wattage?  And do we set it to turn on in the morning, turn on in the evening, or both?  I'm...