does anyone know what the coding is for the banner and the links that let you upload pics lol... if i could wipe all the add blocking for this one site i could start over a bit smarter lol... i must have gotten click happy .. or is anyone knows how i can do that (wipe the ad block from just this...
im planning on building a chicken "compound" i want it to be as self regulating as possible, so that means solar lights, rain barrels, maybe a hand pump well from the local run off, and planted runs with fast growing food (rotated because i know how destructive they can be, but i dont know how...
i want to build a sturdy predator proof fence with cattle panels and chicken wire, and i want it to look pretty with roses and raspberries growing along it so that they eventually obscure the panel... anyone done this? pictures?
ive got a mixed flock of birds that are past ready to go to freezer camp (I keep telling them the bus broke down, maybe next week ) anyway ive got them penned up tight and i havent increased their feed as I would want meat weight not fat weight, but they are of a good size now as it is. They are...
I give my layers soaked alfalfa pellets, i pour water in the day before, and usually make enough to feed out for just a couple days, i chuck it if it gets moldy which it only had once.. but it gets VERY hot... idk if its fermenting or what, it never smells bad...
but anyway i left about...
we were in the mid garden and we hear something got a chicken then they all alarm called, we ranas fast as we could down there and i got the dogs, i told Rilee to "get that fox!" and he went trotting down the drive, looked like something grabbed his nose and drug him into the bushes, he found...
im very good at cooking pork if i do say so ;) but chicken is still very foreign to me
so i have a 13ish month old partridge rock roo, killed about a month ago, froze right away after cleaning and bagging, so yesterday i took it out defrosted it and put it in a large stock pot with a...
so yeah this was an odd sight for me today when i was sitting in the baby pen, i look over to the other pen as i hear squawking... and a young PULLET of idk, maybe 3 months or so mounting a mature bantam hen, and attempting to do the deed... thoughts? a young bantam rooster was right in there...
poor guy was teathered out and he wrapped himself around a tree, no one found him until it was too late, he was only unsupervised for like an hr... gunna miss him, he was a good boy, very friendly through the fence and tethered... just had to be super careful free handling him...
Thats my...
We were in the garden as i was weeding getting ready to till and plant stuff for the chickens and we hear a scream, we bolt for the birds and Chris is running down the driveway yelling *its a looooong driveway like a logging road* i didnt see it till i had gone a lil ways my dog by my side, i...
i got the idea of it from a book i read a looong time ago, and in one pen i have 2 cochin roosters so i thought to put the 8 week olds in there, watch and see how it went.... well it went great, they started clucking to em like a hen and scratching around, only pecked a little if they were...
we recently had an animal swap last weekend or so and although i was the only one with chickens lol it wasnt too bad, in a couple hrs i sold 5 birds i didnt expect to sell any lol...
We are having another event at the Tractor Supply on July 13th this one is all about the birds, I'll be...
Now I"m fairly certain based off my charts that I know potentially who the parents are, but dang this is odd... actually ive gotten several odd ones from my EE's but I've just learned to accept that I know nothing about how diverse their color genetics are
but these came from the coop where...
just a curiosity who else keeps charts on their flocks?
For my 4 flocks I have different charts keeping track of different things
For the duel purpose flock, I chart pretty much what breeds they are comprised of, their assigned number, what generation they are, and lastly for the ones that...
I figured I stumble upon this site almost every day in my searches I might as well quit being a creep ;)
Anyway, my name is Katherine and I breed chickens on a small scale and currently have 4 projects going:
one coop we are breeding for meat and eggs * mostly meat but right now just mostly...