Most of my beans are up and the corn is about the same. We get rain maybe once a week and barely enough to wet the ground. Tomatoes and zucchini are doing great along with the carrots and radishes, I think the chipmunks are chewing up my radishes though. I know the garden needs the rain which...
I have 5 B.Rocks, 3 look really alike, 1 has a smaller comb and boss hen has a all black spot on her breast. 4 of mine lay the color eggs you showed the other 1 lays a tan egg. Great layers.
I had a coon taking the covers off my tender plants in the garden, I would put them on before dark and off in the morning. From there it went to the coop which is next to the garden and tried its hardest to find away in, on the rollout nest box, on the roof and run. I decided to set the box trap...
I usually give our extra eggs away to family and friends but have had this happen when selling firewood bundles at a roadside stand. I would sell 3 large size bundles for $10 or $3.50 a piece, I would put 12 bundles out at a time and it went well for the 1st couple years. Then it started...
1 of my Barred Rocks started laying eggs that are somewhat flat, it is like if you dropped a dough ball its still roundish but flattened. I noticed those eggs being very thin shelled. I was feeding All-flock but since the thin shells on those eggs I feed 50/50 layer and all-flock and always have...
I have been feeding crows for many years and still waiting for them to bring me something. When growing up we had a couple pet crows, one day the phone rang and it was the high school calling for us to come and get George because he was disrupting the football game. Another time George kept...
The only advise I have is free ranging = loss. As you saw yourself being out with them and it happened. I knew in the beginning free ranging would never work where I live due to the number of predators here. I only have 7 chickens for eggs and to lose any cuts the egg count. To me they are kind...
Distemper is what I thought to, distemper is what happens when the population gets out of control. With the fur prices low the hunters and trappers aren't after them and that = Disease.