I saw a documentary about commercial egg production. The girls were treated horribly After I cried I vowed to never eat another store bought egg It was so sad 7 girls to a pen. Not enough room for them to spread their wings no less turn around I'm only getting 1 or 2 eggs from my girls right...
My wife not knowing there was 2ft of snow in the dog pen let our 5lb yorkie out with the wiem. While the wiem was alright stuey got trapped when he fell through. She called and called then she saw him struggling mostly buried in the snow. she being disabled was unable to do anything but watch...
I read so much about free range, organic etc. but what about stress free eggs? I found very little online about the subject. I have to believe the benefit of eating eggs from stress free chickens are better. Am I right ?
weee I ate farm eggs, from my girls for the first time in my life this morn.WOW! I can't believe the diffrence. There's no way I'd sell them for 2 bucks a doz. They taste twice as good as store bought so I'm not selling them less than twice what the store's asking !
I read that soybean products can interfere with digestion in chickens. Is that correct?
I started my girls on purina start and grow but when I looked on the bag for nutritional infomation they gave a web address for detailed information http://www.poultrynutrition.com/. I searched that site and...
These are our first chicks 4 australorps, 4 slws and 1 blue slikie. We never thought having chicks would be such an amazing feeling! We already want more. My wife is awfully allergic to the silkie chick. She got hives from handling her! Has anyone experienced this. Did it pass as the silkie grew?
I'm am so excited I got my peeps! They are so gorgous. I got 4 australorps,4 slws, and one blue sliky. My wife seen silkies online and wanted one. Our camera is broke when it's fixed I'll post pics.I'm almost done with my coop. I never thought I would get so excited but I almost cried while...
I'm new to this community and to raising chickens. In the spring we'll be converting our shed to a coop and getting 8 Australorps. Boy we can't wait. We moved to our half acre 2 years ago.I was supposed to get the coop going last year but kidney failure and cancer kinda got in the way...