Fun addition to the flock. I have 3 Khaki Campbells. They are frequently chatting and murmuring among each other but its not loud or bothersome at all and quite fun and pleasant to listen to.
They lay large creamy eggs that taste really good and they lay a good amount of them too. We cook ours...
You remember those crisp fall mornings where you could just sit on your porch with a cup of coffee and enjoy the quiet sounds of nature?
Well if you get guinea fowl those days are gone. These things never shut up and have the most annoying squawk I've ever heard. They just squawk and squawk all...
I currently raise red wrigglers for composting but I've been thinking about starting on mealworms for a while for my chickens. If I'd known it was this easy I would have started a long time ago!
Well of course! Its just good manners to flap back lol.
I used to have 4 roosters once upon a time. This was back when i bought my first chicks and before i knew what "straight run" meant haha.
Well long story short I found out one evening that we had a fox problem. Two foxes came and in a one...
It sure will. I've gotten accustomed to fresh eggs every morning and it just seems weird to not have chickens anymore. Not to mention my 5yo daughter has named most of them and would throw a fit if I didn't find a way to take them with us lol. So getting replacement chickens was pretty much out...
All of them but the 8 older ones from my first year raising chickens. I don't think they would handle the long trip very well. My parents asked me if they could keep them, my dad says he likes the older ones because they talk to him more lol. So I guess that'll be the equivalent of chicken...