Recent content by leighwb

Thanks HH, I'm going to look up that recipe! Cassie, it was really helpful to read your comment about the chickens in your mom's day being sold with guts intact. I pulled 3 of my chickens from the deep freeze and hung them 2 days ago. Unfortunately, the temps have been in the teens and the...

Found this site while continuing my research today..http://honest-food.net/2012/10/20/on-hanging-pheasants-2/ Anyone tried hanging their older birds?

Thank you all for your input! HH, I am somewhat near the Wolf Center in Rist Canyon...up nearer to Pingree Park, so wonder if we are neighbors? I have culled and processed 3 roos before the attack, so I am fairly comfortable with knowing whether something is "off" in the guts. 40+ yrs or so of...

I have been searching the forums for days seeking an answer to this question..."Are they safe to eat?" My birds died from a bobcat attack...25 in all...it crawled through a most amazingly small opening under the roof. Most look like their necks were broken or just have a small wound to the neck...

A bobcat snuck in through the smallest space I can imagine between the fencing and the roof to take half my flock night before last. The bobcat left 12 dead :( We left the opening for ventilation and thought it too narrow for any of our mountain predators to fit through...boy were we wrong...

This little girl just won my heart! What fortitude...laying in a snow storm of all things! I debated on what to do, but couldn't bear to see the wind whipping snow in her face, so I brought her in and put her in the nesting box with some fake eggs I found in my floral box and shut the coop door...

This is very helpful, MrsK! Yes, I got 5! It was my Barred Rock girls. I have 3 of them. I tried to stick with breeds that were listed as winter hardy. I ordered straight runs of Cuckoo Marans, Barred Rocks, Golden Laced Wyandotts, New Hampshires, Buff Orpingtons, and my personal...

I'm free ranging in the snow...mountains of Colorado at 8700'. I'm new to BYC and to raising chickens, so I have more questions than answers at the moment. I have a mixed flock of 29 that are 17 weeks. They have the option of coming and going from the coop during the day, where I have deep...