The past 5 springs,until this one, I tilled up the outline of a square, but leave a couple feet untilled(doorway) on 1 side. Then I sow sunflower seeds in thick so that when they grow up my children had a little sunflower fort! They loved it and so did the birds! I have a picture of the kids...
It's looking like 16 out of 20 BLRW chicks that I got this spring are cockerals! Uugggh!It's really too bad because this breed seems like the roosters usually have pretty good temperaments . Obviously I cannot keep them all, so I am going to offer them for sale, to try to recoup some of the...
Is there anyone that is going to the Fall Creek swap on the 20th that has a Salmon Faverolle rooster between 3-7weeks old? Ours passed away today from sour crop. This was our 1st one and I was really enjoying this breed, he was such a sweet boy
We were told that the hen is a Narra/BR x and the tom is our RP. We had a hen but she disappeared without a trace last fall. Spring came around and he needed a friend so I found her in the newspaper and she has been a great mama, a bit nervous around us but otherwise great!
I am definitely not wanting to compete with grocery store meat, which we rarely eat ourselves. Homegrown or wild! That why we grow our own! We free range ours(40 acres but they don't wander too far from the coop and yard area) and they have game bird feed available, small amount of corn, fruit...
Anyone on here have experience selling heritage breed turkeys as a young poult or grown out to butcher weight? I have 9- 2 1/2 week olds and 4- 7 week olds. Some I will keep for our freezer and have had a couple people interested in buying one once grown out. From research I've done in big...
New to this thread! Im in northern WI. I have a mixed flock of layers( my old gals)-Welsummers, RIR, Gold laced Wyandotte, Blue Andalusians, (new this year) speckled Sussex, Russian Orloffs, and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. We also raise heritage turkeys(hatched our 1st 13 poults this year) and 1...