i butchered two bourbon red turkeys for thanksgiving. my first turkeys i have ever raised from poult to pot, and they were awsome! juicy, and full of flavor! so i can now say they were worth the time and aggravation.
i have one tom and 5 hens that are slates, they are getting bigger and are...
What kind of temperment/personality does the la flèche have from the ideal hatchery birds? I have an order from ideal coming and am curious about what to expect from them. Anybody know? Tks, mark
At my local feedstore: they recieved an order of rhodies, but two chicks were odd and I decided to buy them to figure out what they are
they have the little black stripe across eye, the chipmunk pattern, yellow legs, black and brown barring on wings. They were same size at this point to the...
I was supposed to be hatching buff brahmas but the cuckoo marans rooster snuck in there. Question is will it have the cuckoo pattern or be black? They do have feathered legs. Can anyone suppose what they are gonna look like?
ive been a "chicken man" for a long time, but i went by feed store yesterday and i heard peeping and for my fellow addictees you know what that means. but to my dismay i saw a box of ducks with many dead/or close to it. they had no light on them,,arrg. so i picked up 6 of them and was charged...
i travel alot due to the fact im an indendent contractor/semi driver cross country. my dd takes care of them the best she can while im gone. but when i come home there is something wrong with one of my domestics it seems everytime, adult or chick. colds, eye probs, sickness of some sort. but...
i have a couple of marans crosses and after returning from traveling(my dd takes care of them when im gone) I noticed they were thin and smelled bad. they are active and eating, is it cocci or something else? antibotics or ? for treatment? thanks, mark oh yeah, they are about 3 mo old
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U.S. City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens
In the backyard of a suburban home in Denver, Colorado, 22 chickens are hiding out from the law.
They arrived when a member of BackyardChickens, an online forum, ordered the birds in the mail this...
For dinner: Genetically altered 'super chicken'
Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 18, 4:07 pm ETWASHINGTON Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. The government said it will start considering proposals to sell...
County Declares Chickens Are Not Pets. (Seriously, They Did)
September 12, 2008
Can a chicken be a pet, or is a chicken just a farm animal? In Escambia County, chickens have now been official declared farm animals and stripped of any hope of being legal pets.
The legal status of chickens was...
Have a smooth roo and two frizzled hens. They r perfectly ok I have to make room for all my babie egg layer types. I live in N.W. Florida so souther alabamians or north floridians wud have ez access. Thanks!
i bought several from hatchery last year. 2 are white crested blacks pullets and a buff roo. but the red one (hen) lays a light brown egg whereas the blacks lay white. I havent seen another one at all n e where or on hatchery web sites..can n e one help?