Your setup sounds wonderful! We are quite interested in becoming more self-sufficient. Our goal is to live with minimal external nuisances, and to have the ability to live completely free of any outside influence if necessary.
I like the idea of salvaging/saving/adopting culled chickens, not...
Thank you everyone for the warm welcomes!
Our ameraucana hens are settling in nicely. One of them is laying already. The chicks are growing sooooooo fast, I can see changes everyday. The small herd of marans and ameraucana juveniles seem to be adjusting well. We are going to do some patch...
So, I just found this site, and I am already hooked! There are so many interesting and helpful topics to peruse through! I would still consider myself an amateur chicken person, even though it's been almost a year since my husband, roommate and I bought our first batch of chickens! Today we went...