Recent content by IdyllwildAcres

Sand stinks, I would suggest deep litter

Don't allow the cat access to the chicks

Well we are all entitled to our own opinions but not to our own set of facts. Facts are facts, they are provable. Unfortunately people get the two things confused or refuse to consider things that differ from their opinions that they have convinced themselves are facts.

Not in California that I can find.

I would move out of Texas! They claim to be free, ya right. That said maybe you could just flaunt the law, go underground build a tall fence.

I have resolved to cull in the fall, its winter now and I still have not finished the job only 2 of the 6 condemned so far . I want to get 6 chicks in the spring, 4 more have to go before then. Maybe tonight I will finish the job.... Or this week for sure... That said some have retirement...

I think the likelihood is 0%

why do you want 3 cockerels?

Planned and built the first one, converted a A-frame intended as a tiny house for the next one.

Vegetarian/pescatarian here. I eat eggs and cheese and fish. Fish does not gross me out for some reason, seems more natural to me. I have not eaten chicken or beef in 9-10 years and I do not miss it.

I am tired of the thanking god crowd to be honest. The amount of people in this forum who wear their religion on their sleeves and signature lines is disturbing to me.

I take a regular victor mousetrap and a bamboo skewer, i cut off about an inch of the bamboo and stick in in the hole of the part you set the trap at, hard to explain but then it works like a lever. I bait the top of the bamboo with a ball of cheese or pnut butter and it sticks up like a...

It is a shame I do not know anyone willing to do that. The plan is to do the deed tonight. I caught an egg eater in the act yesterday so I know who is going first. EDIT. The egg eater is done, just 5 or 6 more to go I think I will start again Thursday morning (dump closed tue/weds) and take...

Sadly the meat will go to waste. My kids won't eat the ladies, nobody want's to eat them that I know of. I hate it, but they will end up in a feedbag in the landfill. This contributes to my procrastination of doing the deed.

My oldest ladies all have names and a retirement plan. My plan for subtraction this year is keeping the old ladies and the spring chicks everyone in the middle gets the ax, or loppers in my case. Problem is I do not eat meat