We have been very busy with a new house, right when the Meaties needed to be processed.
As a result, this guy had to wait an extra month...Hope he's ½ as tender as his brother was.
10.2lbs
I'll let you know this weekend how he was...
I am so proud of her...She picked the chicken to be processed. She carried it to me.
She held it while I tied it up. She said a prayer of Thanksgiving. She helped with the
plucking. She did all of the clean up. I'm a proud Papa...
I asked her several times if she wanted to be there when I...
I keep Saltwater Reef tanks. I belong to several "Reefer" forums...(Don't Google it. You'll get the wrong idea.)
Each one of those forums has a DIY section, where people can share ideas and plans for things
that they make to help them in the hobby. There are a million ways to do things, everyone...
Okay, not that kind of Chick help...I'm married after all...Sheesh.
We purchased 1 Cuckoo Maran and 1 Australorp. When we look up one of them on Google images, it shows pictures of both.
Can someone please tell me which is which...?
Or did I get something totally different?
We recently got 5 Cornish Cross Chicks. I have been told to withhold food for 12 hours a day.(during the night) (They are a week old)
We have this feeder...
They can empty half of it on the floor of the brooder in about 20mins.
This is very wasteful, not to mention that they can now pick...
Here is what my Daughter and I put together tonight. It took about 1.5hrs to complete.
Tomorrow we will be adding a dimmer switch to help control the temperature a little easier
Please let me know what you think. Good or Bad, I would like to know what you think.
This will be used for 5 Cornish...
Just as the title states. Let's see where/how you feed your flock(s) for free. Maybe we can learn from each other...
I'll start. I had my Wife and daughter ask at the Big box grocery store if they could get some of the fruit/vegetable trimmings. They said no. We had given up on the idea.
On a...
I am "New Again" to Chickens. I had about 200 of them when I was 14 or 15.
I am now a LOT older, and starting again with my daughter, Wife and Grandmother.
Right now we only have 7 full grown hens. I had some questions, and posted them in other
sections.
We live in Porterville, California.
I...
I am new to this, so bare with me please.
A little over 2 months ago we purchased 4 Barred Rocks and 1 RIR that were already laying. (1 a day, like clockwork)
Two weeks later, we bought 2 more RIRs. Again, everything was great, 7 Eggs a day. Last week we noticed the #'s
started to fluctuate...