The Great Chicken Count: 105 ish not counting the leghorn chicks I'll be getting
1.1 Cuckoo Marans
13 Cuckoo Marans Pullets
1.2.1 Mille Fleur d'Uccle's
8 Sex-Link packing peanuts
5 Black Australorp Hens
4 Black Australorp chicks
4 Black Jersey Giant chicks
4 White Silkies
2 Barred Rock Hens
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Mine LOVE brussel sprouts in the winter- the whole plant. I plant lots and then when I'm done getting what I want I just leave the plants until winter hits and everyday toss a plant or two into the pen for them. Well, that's what I did last year (and the year before)- this year they don't get...
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MEN did an article on this too a few years back. DH and I have always loved the idea and were thinking of trying something like this. Could you please show pics of your system in use?
Can you actually get nene geese outside of Hawaii? I grew up there and remember seeing them at Honolulu zoo and a few nature reserves, but thought they were endangered (of course this was a really long time ago) and incredibly rare. If they are available, I would LOVE to get some.
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He's only an hour from me!!!! AND he has a phone number (I can't find the local Amish people that will do it- they live WAAAYYYYYYYYYY out in the boondocks and I'm getting tired of getting lost).
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hey, sorry it took so long to get back to you- stupid yahoo started putting some of the posts I subscribed to into my spam folder.
Look like healthy chicken legs- maybe you have a strain of buff orps that the hen has the red stripe. very cool
I don't even think my geese ate that much feed per day when they freeranged. They had access to the feed, but didn't eat much at all of it. My geese mainly grazed. Now that they are in lockdown (for trying to WALK south for the winter), that is a different story ENTIRELY.
The geese and...
OK, this is getting really annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure my geese are trying to go south for the winter. A bit early but multiple times a day they are walking due south off the property. They are trying to fly in the yard but can't get over 1-2 feet in the air. They are penned up...
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I'm so sorry!
Somehow one of my completely wild-broody raised-freerange-month old ee chicks managed to drown in the water dish last night. I have no clue how as it should have EASILY been able to jump back out. It really sucks when they die.