Whoot Whooot......I have little CHICKIES!!!!! My shizzle project was successful.....I have one black shizzle, 6 showgirls (two actually look like they may frizzle) and several sizzles. Now I just have to catch the little buggars so I can take pics!!!
I say book value because Animals don't always go by the books :) When I was a herdsman raising hogs, I saw a lot of things that challenged what I learned in College. Nothing beats life experience.
Oh yeah, I wish that was all my silkie roo was doing to me. Today he attacked me twice. Funny thing is, he used to be sweetest Roo I had. I'm getting ready to give him a cervical dislocation. Today he got a steel toed boot to the beak. Not hard of course, but enough for him to back off.
I found out that my husband was giving the dogs an egg when he was going out to collect them. I should have first mentioned that he has no experience with livestock or poultry. So I got home and I saw him up at the coop, so I went up there only to find that he was throwing the eggs down for the...
Scratch is generally thought to be good for winter/cold weather but I feed a layer crumble/scratch combination year long with some additional supplements and I have never had a problem. I recently lost two pullets in a span of two days. I found them in the same exact spot of their coop, in the...
Hi all. I am not new to chickens, but new to my new environment. I married in October and my Husband lives in the foothills, so when I moved my chickens from the valley to the hills, they provided a free meal to a local Bobcat. Since then, I have modified my two coops, they are like Fort Knox...