If there anyone in the Harrisburg area that would like to give this a try, I'd be happy to supply you with some. My colony is getting too big for the chickens to keep up with.
Hello fellow Pennsylvanians! For reasons I won't go into, I need to leave my husband and lovely home. Does anyone know of a small house for rent that isn't too far from Harrisburg/Mechanicsburg, that will also allow me to bring my chicken coop? This is so hard for me, because I realize that I...
Great video. I saw it when a listing was posted on the Lancaster PA Craigslist. Please also post in on the Harrisburg CL. I know chicken people who would be interested.
I probably feed out the roaches two or three times a week. I have 9 chickens, so I am probably feeding around 50 roaches a week. I don't know how big my colony is, but there always seems to be a lot! If you are buying roaches to feed, it doesn't matter what sex they are. But when raising them...
I started my colony about a year ago, after I saw how much the girls love these roaches. It is so much easier than raising mealworms. I made a video of them enjoying their roachy snack:
I usually make sure each chicken gets several roaches. They can eat them pretty quickly. I always make sure to leave at least a couple of winged males behind. I also feed the not fully grown males, which have a tapered bottom (the females bottom is more rounded). I seem to always have enough...
Two of my favorite hens had gotten broody, and I happened to mention to my vet that it was a shame they would never hatch anything, because I have no rooster. She gave me 4 fertile eggs, and I put 2 under each, and pretty much forgot about it. Yesterday, one of the eggs hatched! I checked the...
Here is the answer, from Livestrong.com:
Fertile vs. Unfertilized Eggs
Whether your egg has been fertilized by a rooster or not, its nutritional profile remains the same. According to the American Egg Board, "there is no nutritional difference between fertile eggs and generic eggs."
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I was in a doctor's waiting room, telling someone about my hens. I said I did not have a rooster because I didn't want neighbors to complain about the crowing. She said that I need to have a rooster because fertilized eggs have less cholesterol. I have never heard this before. Does anyone know...
I was in a doctor's waiting room, telling someone about my hens. I said I did not have a rooster because I didn't want neighbors to complain about the crowing. She said that I need to have a rooster because fertilized eggs have less cholesterol. I have never heard this before. Does anyone know...