Posts by gjensen

 Fred is right.    It is a personal decision. If you believe the effort is worth your while, then it is. You are, after all, keeping the birds for your own enjoyment. No opinion factors into what I do on my own yard....

Everything likes chicken. They do not know or care what kind it is.

Those are big, healthy looking chicks.

 They are easy to come by. Easy to manage. Nice birds to own. I have hatched a lot of them.

Quote: Originally Posted by Yellow House Farm    I think the idea with four or more is an attempt to be self-sufficient.  The difficulty with rare breeds is not having anywhere to go if the stock...

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUman  If you really wanted to do that, you could set up several 4x4 pens for each of the hens, if you keep like 4 hens for each cock bird and then rotate the cock bird through a pen a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Yellow House Farm    I tend to want the twenty, too, building off the notion of "one in ten" is, or maybe should be, worth saving.  I figure 20 gives me 10-ish cockerles and...

Quote: Originally Posted by cbnovick  Interesting on the german NH's... my GSBR's are calm and even BUT they forage very well too...they just do it in slow, intentional way...lol...plus they are not real noisy...

Quote: Originally Posted by catdaddyfro  Yes on a hot southern spring day, trap nesting could surely go awry real quickly esp. if someone is not there to remove hens from nest every so many hours. Not telling...

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickenCanoe  I think the best way to know what is what is to trapnest each pen and only hatch those eggs that you can pedigree both parents. My purposes are different than some,...