Thanks. Read you answer and blew coffee through my nose all over my keyboard. T'was almost as much fun as when I gave my 12 year old grandson a rotary dial phone.
Yesterday afternoon it was so nice I built a fire in the yard just because I could. Most of the snow was gone and I could even sit in one of the chairs. About 11 pm I went to shut off the generator aaand it was snowing. This morning there was about a foot of wet, heavy (s word) all...
We generally buy whatever is left at the end of chick days at Tractor Supply. We are off grid and only have power from the generator so we try to get chicks starting to feather out if we can.
I was thinking of trying Cornish crosses for our "great experiment".
My wife and I are considering adding meat birds to our flock. We currently have 19 layers and a rooster. After reading an article on here I guess a chicken tractor will be home to them.
We live in the Huron mountains in the Lake Superior snow belt on 50 acres of mixed forest and a lot of Rock...