Recent content by FlockO'Sheppards

  1. FlockO'Sheppards

    The benefits of Chickens for Organic Gardening - for my class <HELP?>

    One other thing---roosters make great alarm clocks (no snooze button!) I wake up when the chickens do and they demand that I come outside first thing to let them out. Since I am already outside---I spend a few minutes in the garden before the rest of the family gets up. I guess you could say...
  2. FlockO'Sheppards

    The benefits of Chickens for Organic Gardening - for my class <HELP?>

    Don't forget pre-compost veggies, weeds etc... I call mine the clean-up crew, because they keep so much vegetable matter from entering the compost piles. Less work for me, more food for them=happier omelette making mornings!!! This one might be a stretch, but they are helping unearth the...
  3. FlockO'Sheppards

    A Visiting Chicken in my yard. Please help me!

    I have an Americana Rooster that looks almost identical. Compared to my other three roosters, he is the nicest to the ladies, crows on time (not at 3am!) and makes the sweetest chuckle noises when he's dancing for a hen. He also is the best protector of the flock and consistently gives the...
  4. FlockO'Sheppards

    Ok BYC Friends, I REALLY need your advice now!!!!!

    I just recently mixed about the same ages of chickens. I put the babies out in the main run and let them come face-to-face through the fencing of the coop/run that the older girls were in. I let the older ones out and immediately the top hens started attacking the younger ones so I got the...
  5. FlockO'Sheppards

    If you love your chickens, fence them in

    What happens when, not if, the dog comes visiting and no one is there to shoot the paint ball gun? That's the point I am trying to make. Paint ball gun works great, real gun works great, but you can't stand sentry duty 24-7-365. Too True!! When I know we're going to be gone for a substantial...
  6. FlockO'Sheppards

    If you love your chickens, fence them in

    We have a system that works well for our family. We have two small chicken coops with attached, fully enclosed runs. The coops are set apart from each other by about 50 feet and the space between them is fenced in with 5 foot high chicken wire. Our garden fence forms the backside of the main...
  7. FlockO'Sheppards

    Anyone use spent brewery grain?

    I was just discussing with my husband the possibility of supplementing our chickens feed with the barley/oats from our local brewery. We don't have an organic layer feed at any of our local feed stores---just the "organic poultry pellets". I also have been having a difficult time finding...
See more
Back
Top Bottom