Alright, here's what happend. We got a new dog, who was acting weird around the chickens. While I was at work tonight, the dog jumped over the five foot fence, broke through the top net mesh material and proceeded to slaughter, every one of my hens. Both of my roosters survived, somehow...
So my new Dog Aries, a 100 lb Husky Mix, ran past me today and got into my backyard, where my cat is. They started fighting, and I ran over and grabbed up the cat, so they would stop. That was probably my first mistake, next time i'll go for the dog. Anyway, the dog started circling me and...
Anyone here ordered from Mt. Heathly Hatcheries?
Im thinking of going through them for my next batch of Chickens and this years turkey order.
If anyone has gone through them before, please give me some input, good, bad, ugly, whatever.
Thanks.
Im anxious to try my new meat birds, a lady I did butchering for before wanted some of my RIR and BO pullets, so I worked out a trade, 3 of my birds for 3 Cornish X chicks. This works well for me because I'm still trying to sell my family on the whole meat chicken idea. So hopefully this is a...
Does anyone know if a Whiz Bang Chicken plucker works well with other types of fowl, such as turkey's, ducks, geese, etc?
If you have any knowledge of this please let me know.
How much space is a good area for each chicken. I'm not doing free ranging and I want to keep them confined, but how much space is comfortable, per bird?