Love too but it's totally not practical. They, and the chickens, enjoy a great big run with live trees as fence posts. This property used to be a Christmas tree farm so there's lots of trees around and the flock enjoy the shade.
I've been getting all kinds of great advice from this website for a year now, so I finally took the plunge and joined in. We are new to raising backyard chickens but we are enjoying them so much that they have become part of the family. That might be a problem if they have to go to freezer camp...
I seem to have 3 roosters in my flock of birds. One is ( was) supposed to be a white Chantecler, but he has mutton chops and greeny, grey legs. Can't say what he is. The other is a Silver Speckled Hamburg and the last is a Mottled Houdan. The Hamburg and Houdan have lived together with the...
Every night we have the turkey rodeo, trying to get our 4 wild eastern/bronze turkeys into their house. As entertaining as this can be, is this really necessary. We live in a wooded area with racoons around and such but the birds are getting a little big ( born in June, this is mid August). Is...