Search results for query: *

Oh I think it's going fine, we just miss you!

x2!

30!!!! Yeah, 15 was enough for me. They are so cool though!

I've had raccoons take broody hens, but never one from up in the rafters in my big open barn. When they decide not to return to the coop, they roost on the big wood beam in the back of the photo. That's a good 25 feet up. That isn't to say they couldn't though. I have one singleton July hatch...

Here they are!

Just some of my barn yard mixed colors with a Naragansett and a Black tom over 1 RP, 1 slate and 2 bronze hens. They were mostly bronze or black males and slate and black female. There were 6 toms ranging from 14.2 - 17.5 and 4 hens ranging from 7.8 -8.9. My butcher teased me about needing...

So we have reached the culmination of my Cinco de Mayo hatch! We put a 14.2 lb in the electric smoker, a 14.8 in the oven and a 17.2 lb in the roaster. They were the center piece of our first joint family Thanksgiving yesterday. We served 25 people a 90% homegrown meal. I can't say 100 because...

They are actually pretty friendly - obnoxiously so in fact. They did find my 3 year old niece wandering far from the "pack" once though, and were making kind of threatening gestures. I bawled my brother out for letting her get away from him. That would have been awful if it had gotten out of...

I'm way behind in this conversation since I haven't been able to post. I wasn't able to quote anyway I'll be glad when November gets here. I've 8 young toms that have been constantly brawling with each other the past couple weeks. In the top picture there are 3 females - can you pick them out?

I do like it early so the babies will hopefully be big enough to eat by Thanksgiving. Last year I hatched in June and they were pretty small still. I butchered 4 and they were tasty, just not as developed as I thought they could be. The 2 older toms were quite big since they had hatched the...

They are little stinkers! Just lovely though. I might have to try some next year.

Yep, I've used a lot of Coflex in my day. Used to buy it by the case, then my horses grew up and stopped hurting themselves. (where's the knock-on-wood smiley?)

I found out the hard way not to use red bands on chickens - it seems to attract a lot of attention. No one was injured, but I couldn't tell them apart after they were pulled off

So cute Deb!

That's hilarious! I can just see it

I've put down a couple with twisted necks - they usually are ones that had trouble hatching so I blamed it on position in the egg. Not sure about that though. I had a poult zipping under a broody last night and found it this morning completely dry in it's shell. It had been in so long it had...

That's too bad So far that hasn't happened to me, but I know my girl kitty is a good hunter. I keep having sporadic hatches from the broodies in the coop and occasionally I'll find a chick wandering around in the midst of the flock. Yesterday it was a poult that one of my barn cats was keeping...

Quote: Sorry, but I had to laugh, as much at visualizing the mess as the perplexed looks on the horses' faces as they wonder what the heck you are doing rolling around on the ground.

For those of you losing poults, are you feeding medicated feed? I know they are very sensitive to digestive trouble and medicated starter is recommended by some. Also my hatchery friend says she can't brood her poults and chicks together without the poults dieing for no apparent reason. I have...

Gratuitous turkey picture: