This is our second year for poultry. We have an organic farm, certified for what we grow - hay, soybeans (being harvested as we speak!) and popcorn. 21 acres Central Indiana, it's also a bee farm, we are CNG certified for bees & honey. Our birds are:
10 layers from 2013, mix RIR, barred rock...
good morning.
I'm on Indy's west side, a 22 acre organic operation of hay, soybeans, popcorn and sometimes other things like spelt, sunflowers, sweet corn, etc. We're also a certified bee farm and honey producer.
We have about three dozen layers (about 5 of them are roos), ending our second...
yeah Buck, I had read that. But even with a mouse my drakes show no inclination to scoop them up.
btw, my ducks have names too:
Males:
1. Sir Francis (Drake)
2. Detective Paul (Drake)
the first named after the famous circumnavigating explorer, the second from a Perry Mason character...
I do hope you're successful. We were gifted with 4 musovies in the spring of 2013. Two drakes and two females. We had one hatching this summer of 6 but it was pared down to two (we're not sure why, but the barn is big is lots of hay and hiding places... lost? eaten by rats? we're not sure...