100% home grown pickles - everything in the jar came from my garden except the salt: Cucumbers, fresh dill, dill seed, celery seed, coriander seed, cayenne chili pepper, onion scapes, bay leaf, grape leaves.
How worried should I be? Went in yesterday to find 4 of my babies had figured out how to escape their enclosure, and at least one (but likely all) of them had found and pecked out a serious chunk of furniture foam. No bits of it to be found, so I have to assume they ate it.
Is there anything I...
Yeah I was really hoping to get a few years of taking care of laying hens under my belt before attempting to raise my own meat birds and take the next step toward self sufficiency. At some point I'd like to be able to take more responsibility for the meat I eat, I was just not thinking it would...
My brother kept a meat bird with his free range layers and it was healthy until a predator got it. I have the same issue with my first little 6 bird flock - was sold a Cornish X but told it was a Buff Orpington. He told me to just not free feed her with the test of the birds, and let her forage...