Recent content by longbranch321

I disagree with the advice to “free feed”. Not only does that create opportunity to invite a rodent problem, but it is a huge waste of money. Not efficient at all. It is actually much easier to free feed, but if you are feeding high quality organic or non-gmo feed like me, it becomes too...

Thanks. I would not buy chicks from TSC anyway. 1, because it's TSC, and 2, because I need these Chicks now. ASAP lol

Here are some photos of her and a recap of her info. She's in her second year of laying (born in spring 2014) my brother bought her at Tractor Supply Co., labeled as a "Production Red", but her appearance seems to meet the description of an ISA brown, according to the descriptions I have read...

Well, I have 29 hens and a rooster already and I get a variety of blues, greens and Browns, including dark "chocolate" brown(black copper marans). One of my hens, we adopted from my brother, as he quit keeping chickens. Her name is "Alice" and she's in her second year of laying. He bought her as...

Production Red and ISA Brown. Of these two hybrids, which is going to give me more eggs with less feed, and do well in a pastured production model. In other words, which can forage well and give me more eggs on less feed? I'm in northeast FL and producing eggs to sell on rotated pasture, and...

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. They were all helpful. The coop is almost finished and then we will start on the run. I am posting pictures in order of progression to date and I'll post more as when it's finished. My father-in-law is a master carpenter and he found a coop on BYC that we...

Oh yeah, we already planned for that. We let our current 1yr old girls clean up our garden at the old house and this new house and the new girls will be no exception :) We will not only have a fenced in garden with raised beds, but I also plan to plant a separate large corn patch also fenced in...

Thanks for your suggestions and advice!

Thank you, but I think you're underestimating what chickens can do to grass. My chickens eat just as much grass as bugs if not more. They love it. I have also seen half acre pens completely turned to a mud pit by less than a dozen chickens. I have 6 hens already which I've had for a year now and...

I just bought a house on 2acres back in October and now I have been planning for spring. I have had 6 laying hens for about a year now, got them as chicks last spring. But I've ordered a lot more chicks and I'm going to need a much bigger coop to house them all. In all I will have a total of 33...