I am going to be setting up a bird powered composting system soon and I've always heard that turkeys scratch and feed very similarly to chickens. Do you think Turkeys could take the place of chickens in a bird powered compost system? For those of you who aren't familiar with such a system, its...
Hello, I am running a medium scale small farm pastured egg operation. My goal is to make my chicken breeding hobby sustainable through egg sales. These are the breeds I want to work with: Welsummer, Isbar, Ameraucana, and Bielefelder. I've read all I can find on them on the internet, however I...
I live in western Oregon, a sub tropical climate. It gets cold here but not freezing, and it gets hot but not scalding. Our annual low is around 30 degrees Fahrenheit, and our annual high is around 80 - 90 degrees Fahrenheit. I want to save money on building a coop, and a four sided coop even...