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and here is my first pullet egg!!

Howdy all!!! Hope all is well I only have one more night of bailing hay left and I am so excited to be done and get back to talkin chicken! I got my first pullet eggs this past week!!! Woohooo! The girls are doing well despite the heat, I had a jumbo egg this past week from one of my older...

Howdy everybody! Haven't been on in a while been busy down here in fentress it's hay bailing season so it's been long days for me! Luckily nothing to do tonight after work so I get to just go home to the family and relax, well there's things to do but I'm not gonna do anything but feed and...

Just wondering if your chickens ever started laying again?

You sure have some gorgeous dogs!

Howdy everyone, I haven't had time to check in in a while hope everybody is doing good! We have finally been getting some rain at my house! Thankyou god! The hayfield is starting to come up good and the sheep are loving it! All my ewes finally had lambs and the little chickens are still growing...

They are quite the lookers!

I had a gentleman tell me to start putting red pepper flakes in with the chicken feed and it will help make them start laying, a friend of mine who has some older hens started giving it to his and they started laying again. It helped get some of my pullets to start laying also.

If anybody is looking for bantams ideal has a emergency sale on straight runs for $1.25

Ohhhh what a day!!! Thanks for all the nice comments about the boxes! Well I had to kick the guineas out of the pen today they red sexlinks are picking on them! Made one of them bleed. I already expanded their pen but they won't leave them alone!!!!!! Poor guineas don't know what to do they...

well I'm happy to say Dad got the nest boxes built and we got them up Saturday. Hope everyone had a great weekend! :)

Very nice!!

Well I have a very sensitive nose so I want all the ventilation I can get and as we all know chicken poop can get very smelly on certain days so I like as much of a draft as I can get to help out. I've been in a few coops that could gag a maggot, but those weren't kept clean, I find it just...

Well I am sad to post we lost our old heeler at the beginning of the the week. Diabla lived a long 14 yrs and was loved and will be missed tremendously! so love on your dogs everyday because you never know when it's your last time together.