Recent content by CrazyRays

There is no moving the coop closer, It is a long way from the 75 unit townhouse community for a reason! It is located down a valley near the highway,which is why I still have the four roos, no one can hear them over the highway. Families, hunters, recreational riders go down and see the...

Ha, funny! My run is full of Turkey carcass, hog bones and chicken bones from all the leftovers. They tore up my leftovers, roast pork and sour kraut, chicken noodle soup, I am making myself hungry!

To everyone who replied, I broke my ankle last year, just after I started. It is a steep walk down the hill and I have repeatedly fallen. After my wife broke hers, I wasn't going through all that crap and walked it off. I just saw my doc again and he said this one is not broken. "stretched...

Nothing like Mother Nature whipping your *** and putting you in your place. I slipped, like in an old three stooges movie, both feet straight up in the air and flat on my back. I am laying in 2 degree weather laughing at myself. HA! I get up and check on my girls and the home depot water...

Morning everyone, I checked down at the coop at -10 below. All good, two out of four chicken nipples froze, but I just tapped them in and they dribbled water. I added water to a separate heated water bowl, it was not frozen. It felt nice and toasty inside compared to the outside. Everyone was...

Hello everyone, CrazyRays from Pittsburgh here. I haven't posted in a long while. I just wanted to say hello and let you know I am still raising chickens for fresh eggs. I am still getting some days as high as 15 eggs out of 19 layers. Yesterday was just 10. I've had one loss to predation...