Recent content by obsidian73

I am curious if anyone has experimented with pure free range chickens, esp meat birds such as the cornish cross (yes I know about the freedom rangers as well), but also just with regular laying hens? I am wanting to try to start moving my chickens to less factory food dependency and more into...

Okay so I have been raising my first batch of cornish and they are around 7 weeks old. After a nasty spout of Coccidiosis Due to the heat I have been letting them out of their area and roaming around, well originally this was the cows stall and they cows decided they wanted back in during the...

I am curios how this worked out for those who have tried it. I ran into the same thing here and have been feeding it to my chickens because the cost was so much cheaper than layer or all flock pellets. Well I will say that so far, I have about 40 plus chickens, they have about 4 acres to roam...

LOL not really much more than any other chicken than I can tell.

Thanks I found at least one link from there that looks promising.:thumbsup

All this past year I got some Jersey Giants from Maria's. They are great and I was thinking of adding some from a different breeder to my stock for diversity in breeding. Do you have any recommendations for some really high quality, show/Best of Breed. Giants? Here are a few photos of some of...

Is she a full GP?

Thanks I might have to give that a try.

Wow where do you get a Pencilled Blue Fall Fire turkey from. That is one beautiful bird.

Austria, Thanks for the info. I will have to take your word for it, since that stuff is above my head, LOL. I was assuming she was a lavender based off of Porters description stating that they are a bit paler than slates, and the photo he shows of the blue has quite darker lines. "Self Blue...

My male Great Pyrenees catching some shade with the chickens. My male and female both live with them full time.

Just thought I would update this thread with some more recent photos. It looks like that 2 of them inherited papa's genes and one of them is a blue sweetgrass. Since they are now over 4 months old they all still seem to chirp, I have not seen any indication of a beard and none of them that ever...

R2elk Thanks the first picture shows him and her both, These are the only 2 Turkeys I have so I know the poults are whatever they are. My tom looks to be more on the light side. Bantambird Wow she is pretty. Is it possible to sex by the color? I have 2 that are distinctly darker as you can...

R2elk Hey thanks for the great information. The person I purchased these from had bought them from porters Turkeys. I was told the tom was a Sweetgrass and I believe my hen is a lavender palm based on her coloring. Would you agree with that or is it possible she is something different? That...

Anyone out there crossed a Lavender Palm Hen with a Sweetgrass Tom? My hen has hatched out 3 so far and at 7 weeks old they all have different color mixes. Any thoughts as to what they might look like will they stay the color they are now or will the change as they get older? I think the light...