Posts by lizage

Quote: Originally Posted by Crafty chick  Cluckacres~ when I lived around there we used a family owned mill...Oldfather Grain. It was nice b/c we could get the organic non-"messed with" grains. They would mix whatever you...

Quote: Originally Posted by bradselig  I have always been very pleased with Orschelns! I buy most of my feed there as well. They have great a great selection of chicks in the spring as well. They have a great...

I believe I posted before on the old thread, but another Northern Indiana resident here.    I do more "trolling" than posting.    I have approx. 25 chickens.  All different breeds (I like to...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!  My daughter (who is 9) has already been asking for some chicken dinners so she obviously has no problem with it.    I just didn't want to cook it up and then think about too much,...

I just used Hyatt's in Rochester, IN.  That's pretty much the farthest south one I know of.  The other's, like Martin's, are up around Goshen/Napannee.  

So we just had 8 of our "extra" cockerels butchered (mainly EE's) for the first time and they actually looked pretty decent (they were around 20wks old).  I have them whole and have cooked whole chickens in the past, but am...

I have 8 EE cockerels I was planning on bringing to a processor to use as meat birds.  They will be around 18 weeks old.  They look pretty small to me still so I was wondering if it was worth it?  Would their meat be...

Have you looked into egg yolk peritonitis?  There's a lot of info on this site about it.  One of my chickens had it recently and her poop looked just like the picture you posted.  Unfortunately, there's nothing you can...

Speckledhen, I had actually read through all of your posts before.    Of course, when it's your first time going through it, it's so hard to figure out what's right and wrong (or if anything is wrong in the first...

Here's my recent experience with my hen...   http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657704/swollen-bottom-but-not-egg-bound-update-we-had-to-put-her-down-eyp