Well ny buddy and i butcherd our first chickens today, we have the dispatching part down i call it dispatching sounds better then killing. Can i say we suck at the cleaning the guts out part lol first one we ended up cuting in half the second one my buddy finaly figured it out. than my propane...
Predators so far this year we have had coons,black snakes,great horn owl,rats,lots of fox,coyote, and now we have a small hawk that wont leave us alone i cant even let my pigeons out anymore cause he seems to alwways get one. I sure have used alot of amo this year lol. Anyboy else have a year...
lets we have been able to run off all the other predators but a big old barn owl he got another chicken last night. i have some chickens i let around the farm he keeps picking them off short of shooitng it what can i do?
I am just starting out with 1 pair Ringneck Pheasants we built a run for themn 20 by 20 with some tree branches aand a box for them to get into part of the run is coverd. can you put more then one pair in the came run?
i bougth some cotrunix quail eggs to hatch to bring some new blood into my flock. i had 50 i bought off someone and 50 of my own i hatched. when they hatched out some did not have feathering on there backs and they still have never featherd out right yet there 4 weeks old nad they seem small. i...
If you were to build an incubator like this what would you use a wafer thermostat or electronic one like whats in the spoartsmen or both like useing the wafer for backupl?
this would be my first time with meat birds was wondering how many to get i have room for many but i will be doing the butchering my self so i dont want to get in over my head. i would like to get them befor is gets too cold.
one fo the local chicken growers has said he would sell me 60 comercial broiler chicks form $75. is tha a good deal and are these the same as cornish cross.
we have and old window van were going to make into a free range coop to put in our horse pasture. we are removing the side door replaceing it with wood and a pop door then hang nestboxs on the out side on the drivers side. cage in the drivers seat so it dont get coverd in poop , cause the van...
seems i do good with my eggs my chcikens lay but shipped eggs i dont do so well with. when i get the eggs i let them sit 12 hours befor i put them in the ready incubator. whats everybody elses experence with shiped eggs?
someone is giveing me there flock of roller pigeons i think he also has some other mixed in. he is giveing me the shed he keep them in to it is 8x10 with nestboxes he has door cut out in the evee with a landing board. we are going to move the shed with pigeons in it he olny lives down the road...