Recent content by hamsweetfarm

Yeah, that's the weird part. OUr birds are strong as oxes, but this thing seems to have just ripped them apart. We are doing pretty much everything we can, but we'll see how it goes. Oddly enough, it's the weak ones that seemed to have done better with it all. We do feed a very high quality...

As I read through the following article (https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/chicken-diseases-information-on-ms-mg-ilt-ib-abc-and-123) I have to come to a stark realization that in any free range or pastured poultry set up (small scale of 30 - 50 birds ) there is virtually no way to avoid CRD...

Yeah, I think we'll see how it goes for another week or so and then make a decision on the incubating. Thanks for the info!

Hey Everyone, First off, thanks for anyone's time that I get. I wish I had more to offer the community other than questions right now, but I'm still learning all this stuff. I've plowed through as many of the threads as i can, however, I'm still a little unclear as to what/if I should do...

I've read nothing but great things about them as layers

ok, that's what I was thinking when I got back and did some research. Great thing about it is, they went for Jersey Giant prices :) so that was good.

We were at an auction yesterday and picked up some new ladies for our flock. When the lot came up they said "jersey giants" however I haven't ever seen giants that looked like this. That being said, there was also a blue egg in another lot of the same breed , but they don't really look like...