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  1. SamanthaDianne

    My ratio went wrong.

    Hello everyone! I feel like I haven’t been on here in forever. But now I have duck questions 😂😂 so around Easter my son wanted to get some ducks to add to our little homestead we have going. We went to tractor supply on almost a whim and they had 7 unmarked (Rouen) ducklings left. We purchased...
  2. SamanthaDianne

    Need opinions please

    Yall I need opinions. Please take a look at these and let me know what you think. I just got done putting it together and I need a fresh set of eyes. www.majorsfarmtx.com and https://www.facebook.com/majorsfarm/ The good the bad and the ugly. Typos, what did I miss that should be a no-brainer...
  3. SamanthaDianne

    Most common/highest in demand backyard chickens

    Hey guys! We have recently been toying with the idea of starting a side started pullet business. I'm not trying to get rich or anything, we just don't have anywhere in our immediate area. When we started keeping chickens, I didn't want to start with chicks and we had to drive a very VERY good...
  4. SamanthaDianne

    For those of you who DO use sand

    We are working on a new chicken barn. The plan is to poor a concrete slab and we have chosen to use sand as bedding. I should also mention that at capacity it can house up to 100 birds. We free range and they are supposed to end up with end up with about a 5000 square foot yard before it’s over...
  5. SamanthaDianne

    I’m getting a chicken barn!!

    So as our second batch of pullets are starting to lay, our egg baskets are getting more and more colorful! That has led us to the idea that we are going to expand our chicken keeping once again. We were actually in the process of putting up a barn for some of our dairy cows. The thing is the...
  6. SamanthaDianne

    Rooster ratios

    We may have gotten off to an ambitious start with this chicken keeping business lol Ok here’s some back story. We had a tiny established flock of three hens then we added so at that point we had one rooster 11 hens total. Then we ordered fall chicks and I ordered 14 pullets and one more roo...
  7. SamanthaDianne

    Ready to move outside?

    Thinking about moving pullets and roo outside. They turned 5 weeks on 11/13. We have had them in the garage with a heating plate up until now. They seem to rarely go under the plate anymore, and look fully feathered. This is our weather forecast this week. Thoughts?
  8. SamanthaDianne

    I need y’all to tell me if this is crazy.

    So this is my first actual post here I have read and learned so much put I have a specific question or maybe questions I would like advice on. We recently started keeping chickens in May. We started with five and lost two. One didn’t make it very long at all. We just found the poor girl in the...
  9. SamanthaDianne

    Hi from Texas!

    Hi my name is Samantha. I love on the Texas Gulf Coast. We just started our little back yard flock about a month ago with 5 chickens. We have a mixed flock with a Plymouth Rock, rhode island red, brahma, whiting true blue, and a sapphire gem. This is my first time keeping chickens as we just...
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