Hello and welcome....
Here on our family run farm we raise registered Haflingers.
Recently we added heritage breed chickens to the farm. The intention is to produce stock worthy of a heriage breed and market the eggs from these birds. While looking for a breed of chicken to raise we decide on...
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No not even a face like they were sorry, the answer to the police was, well they were only chickens. The dog came back three times and each time the owners were given a fine. Guess that was the only way to reach them, through there pocketbook.
They are a nice breed and I am happy I...
Boy it's been a few days since I have visited this post. Wow did I miss alot! I'm taking down notes for new birds and eggs come spring.
Our neighbor's dog got into the run this week and killed every last bird I had, Delaware and Black Java, 18 total and 4 Guinea. Restitution was a total of...
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HA, ha I have done that with the same look on the dog's face, way to funny.....
I feed my girls raw meat and cooked meat all the time, not huge amounts of it, I see nothing wrong with it. They do eat any "meat things" they can if they find them, worms, bugs, mice, snakes...
I feed mine 10% sweet feed as a treat. 1-2x a week, just a handfull.
I think for the cost of it and nutrition wise, chicken feed is better than trying to mix your own.
I also feed them the sweepings off the barn floor, a mix of sweet feed, dry cat food, hay and what ever may be in there. Not...
I understand they are indeed having troubles this year. I ordered hatching eggs from them, out of 24 eggs, 4 hatched and 2 of those were the wrong breed.
I also ordered chicks--that were never sent.
Customer service is bad, bad, bad just lately. I finally did receive a refund but not for the...
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I hope never! These are all so cute! My granddaughter and I just spent over an hour looking at and making up stories about all these photos....
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"Lizzy, the artist's rendering of the standard is actually a much stockier bird than most hatchery Dels. Note the extremely deep chest, especially. The first time I saw that picture, it was what surprised me, that they are supposed to be such a big, broad bird, since all I had seen were narrow...
Wow,
All this is very interesting. Guess I had better do some more reading up on these if there is any info to be found on line. I did find the standard image mentioned earlier.....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2606843
Guess to the untrained eye (mine!)...