so after a few days of free ranging my yr old hens and 4 month old hens together for a a few hrs at a time i figured i could move them all into the same pen since they got along fine. the one lt brahma get pecked really bad to the point where you could see the tail bone and is missing skin over...
I have a friend who cans her own Tuna... Hubby is a Sea Captain (sport fishing). She puts it in Glass jars.... OH MY GAWD good..... Do you can chicken in glass as well? Do you de-bone? I am very interested in canning Guinea meat when I start processing.
you can can just about anything...
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you have to check your local laws but no harm in selling them to people you know. i sell my spares to my co-workers, they cant get enough. some even want their own birds now because of the quality of the eggs compared to store bought.
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I've read a lot of studies on coyotes. Never seen any that mentioned interbreeding with wolves. They do sometimes cross with dogs, causing larger size and different colors, pack formation.
I saw a large,black one living on our property in NE OK once. I always thought it was a dog cross...
http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/coyote_info.htm
heres a brief description on eastern coyotes. they really do look like german shepard mixes out here.
i love great pyramese, beautiful, calm and powerful. should be a good flock guardian
the coyotes here in jersey actually have wolf blood in them so they tend to be larger and hunt in packs more often. good luck on finding the right breed of dog.
right on bobbi, dont people realize there are mutts for next to free at the pound all the time, instead they support puppy mills by paying more for a mutt than what i spent on my first car
coyotes? i'd suggest a shot gun or rifle. they will jump an electric fence for food. unfortunatly coyotes will sometimes hunt in packs, one dog is no match for that. they will sound the alarm, you might have to do the dirty work. they do sell traps large enough for the coyotes too. good luck...
well i'm a new chicken keeper with old values, i wouldnt lie about the breeds. i wouldnt even call them a designer breed chicken, a mutt is a mutt. cant stand the new designer dog "breeds".
i also think its funny how everyone thinks about being green nowadays. i see it as saving money and not...
wow this thread is stinkin awesome. do you oldtimers have any advice on whether or not to breed mutts. last year i gave my sister some amberlink hens(the amberlink i kept is a great layer and great personality) and an Easter egger rooster. our ee hen is a great layer and very alert, a bit...
goodness this is a long forum already, only on page 13, glad to know that i'm right about alot of things my wife says i'm wrong about. she's still keeping 2, 13 week chicks in our 3 season room thinking they will be too cold because the older birds picked their but feathers when i had them out...