Posts by TechEdFireman

My coop was from freecycle, 6'x12' and now that I am expanding our flock, so I went on Craigslist and found someone getting rid of 2 12'x16' sheds.  I disassembled them and now I have put a 12'x12' addition on the original coop so...

I have a mixed bag as you can see from my signature.  They laid a dozen a day all winter long, I had a 2' fluorescent light on 24/7 so that helped b/c before that I was only getting 5-6 eggs again.  They have slowed down with...

I have 15 hens and in the month of January they ate 150lbs of feed. They are now down to about 100lbs a month.  I sell my eggs for 2/dz and figuring feed costs and carton costs, I make roughly 25-30 dollars a month profit.

I have 2 from Ideal and they are definitely darker than my BOs and RIRs. Similar to Cuckoo4Marans avitar, sorry don't have any of them in a picture.

I started with putting a sign up in the faculty room at school about 2 months now.  I have a waiting list for my eggs, I am getting 28 more chickens at the beginning of May from Ideal.  I also starting raising quail a few weeks...

Purple Chicken,I looked around on the web and here's what I found on CalorieKing about quail eggs and chicken eggsQuail egg .3ozNutrition Facts  Calories 14 (59 kJ)   Total Fat  1g  2%  Sat. Fat ...

We made chicken poop tea in a large 55 gallon drum and would let it sit maybe a week before using it never burned our zucchini and it was strong smelling.  They were pretty large compared to others we didn't use it on.  I...

I was just looking in one of my students' Want Ad Digest. There was an ad for free baby goats.  This is from a cheese making farm so they are milking goats.  I think it was Nettle Meadow Farm, they have a web page.

I have a electric fence around my garden and the lowest strand is 6" off the ground and the next one up is 1' and they never seemed too bothered by it.

tileman@prodigBird Raiser  has some for sale.  I am picking up some quail from him tomorrow. This is his postinghttp://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=145770