I “plan” to hatch a batch at the end of every March to pick my keepers from. That way I have layers when my year old hens start to molt. I know you and Moony are different from me in that every chick is a keeper. Even if that plan works out to laying at 6 months it’s great. Imagine my surprise...
I have a couple pipe feeders that I abandoned because the chickens were wasting the food. I had them eating right from the end of the pipe with a 45 turned up. They just raked it out all over the ground and then wouldn’t eat it. They eat EVERYTHING else off the ground except feed 🙄
It was my chicken guy. I was going to put them in the market bulletin. I said something about it to him the last time he was here. He told me that he would pay my normal asking price for the year old hens unless I just wanted to sell them in the paper. So, today he came and got all of my extra...
I have a pair of Muck boots. No fleece, just standard neoprene swamp boots. It don’t get cold enough in Mississippi for Muck boots apparently. My feet sweat in them and it can be bitter cold to the rest of my body. I know bitter cold is a relative term and MO certainly gets lots colder than MS.
I just found this! It’s great to see more new beekeepers. I will definitely be following along. I skimmed through, hit the high points, etc. I tend to not get into a lot of detail especially when it comes to taking pics of what’s going on inside the hive. The more I mess around the angrier my...