My daughter participated in our local county fair poultry show today with her pen of three Buckeye pullets in the production pullet class. Our fair requires these birds be hatched in the 2011 calender year and we hatched these birds in late January. The good news is that she won her pullet class...
I am in west-central Ohio with at that time, a mixed flock of 23 with a Barred Rock rooster, 8 Barred hens, 3 R.I.R., and 11 buff cross. This flock has free roamed around our yard and 3 acre woods all year and only lost 1 bird until the 26th when we lost 7 in one afternoon. One of the birds came...