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Quote: Wish someone would tell my hatchery girls that they are not supposed to be broody. Ah well, some girls just love babies too much. I think the idea is that hatchery stock,being breed more for egg production(if any selective breeding occurs at all)likely has the "broodiness" bred out...

NEXT TOPIC for the Wise Ones Scattered about in various threads on BYC and other sites and publications are claims of alfalfa hay increasing winter egg-laying. Firstly, what experience(pro or con) have you had using alfalfa hay to supplement feed to help winter production? Second question...

Quote: I had to laugh when I read this.. I am still only on page 9 and loving every minute of it!! Tonight as my husband was playing on his HF rig and I was reading posts on this site, we heard over the scanner something to the tune of, "Respond with Animal control... Neighbor called in...

Quote: To be quite honest, I never had heard of "scratch" before I visited this forum. I still don't think I've ever seen a bag of it for sale in the feed store I frequent. I mix some whole grains and just a dab of cracked corn in my layer mash each winter to cut expenses when the birds are...

Quote: Hold on Al.....even though I've only had chickens a couple of years this time I spent 23 years growing up on the farm and everything on the place...including coops and roosts....came from Sanford & Sons Salvage and worked just fine

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Quote: OldGuy our hens have discovered the "grow-out coop" and have taken it over as a daytime hangout. It's about like your....built on a pallet and only about 3' tall. I put in roosts for the chicks to get used to and they are about 6" off the floor. The full-grown hens use them all the...

Quote: Bee I sure wish I could say I did know someone still doing those things but....like so many goods thing..."this too shall pass". I do a few of of the "tinkers chores" when I can, and a fellow I work with takes in knives,scissors,garden tools and the like for sharpening. I'd really like...

Quote: Bee you really ought to include at least a chapter on the traveling handyman,knife sharpener fellows that went house to house, trading eggs or dressed chickens for sugar and other staples at the community store....just trivia that most "under 50" folks may never heard of or experienced...

Quote: I sure know that feeling! I was raised on the farm and we always had chickens.....went to the hatchery every spring and got 100 broiler chicks plus the "red and brown laying hens". Until I got out of school and moved away I helped kill broilers,dunk and pluck feathers and the like. The...

Quote: I did the same thing years ago and now almost all of my pen's have them. So simple and easy most folks don't even think about it. You mean like these LOL. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/10364_img_0091.jpg...

The fine print...... I am an old-timer,not with chickens but with most other things country-wise so I hope you folks don't mind me steppin in a moment. Speaking of feeders, I've made ours with salvaged materials and they work great. I take a plastic bucket(pickle bucket,pool conditioner pail...

Quote: You forgot bra's. (I just became aware of such a thing this past week ) Gee Kassaundra...thanks for that mental image I'll lay awake with tonight.....chicken bras....who knew? And more importantly.....who in the world came up with that off-the-wall idea? Geeesh!