Suet is good to feed in freezing weather for a bed time snack. It helps them keep warm.
Personally, if I lived in deep freeze, I would get rose comb or pea comb breeds. If that wasn't what I'd want, I would dub all my chicks so as not to have to worry about combs and wattles.
The huge single...
I was thinking more on the lines of silver gray, fayoumis, dark brahmas coloring.
"Blue" chickens seem to stick out just like white ones do.. unless you have some similar colored foliage.🤔
Whitish chickens, not so much.
We've got that green and white varigated arrowleaf vine here as...
Way to go!!
I, looking at your pics, noticed more grays than browns in the landscape.. (I grew up in Fl 😎)
Just wanted to ask if you've considered hen (and chick)colors in your scheme. Would having mostly gray feathers be an advantage to survival(prosperity) in your neck o' the woods, all other...
In the past, I learned(from books) how to shear sheep, scour, tease, rove and spin wool.
I had varicolored sheep so I didn't dye the yarn.
I then learned(from a different book) how to knit, so I knitted a couple of baby blankets and a little boy vest.
Thieves stole one sheep and harrassed the...
Wife's hairball. She was cleaning her hairbrush and rolled up a hair ball to throw away and the dingbat chicken snatched it off the patio floor and gobbled it down.
We were so surprised we just looked at each other for like 5sec then started laughing. I did check up on the cockeral a few times...