I am sure there are many safer ways to keep my chickens, but as a whole, the majority of my flock are free range on our 5 acres and we are surrounded by 40 acres or more of pastureland that a neighbor runs cows on. I could keep the girls all penned up, but I like them for bug control, so free...
Thank you for all the good information. I am probably going to purchase some silkie eggs like the rooster I was given. Then I can (hopefully) give my rooster some friends and my little gimpy girl a friend to grow up with in the same shot.
Finally bit the bullet and signed up for an account.
I have had chickens for years and years.
I have been selling eggs via word of mouth, and then when I started incubating chicks, every batch is sold before they hatch. So I started myself a little business off of it. Little is the...
I have lurked reading threads now & then, but did not feel the need to create an account. I tend to be a "keep to myself" kind of person. But... I needed some expertise, because reading, researching, and google were failing me.
I have a 2 month old coppermaran mutt, hatched out from some...