I'm SOOO glad I found this thread, I have some serious questions! I just finished up trying to hatch out 2 batches of chicken eggs using the dry hatch method posted on this website. Last year I followed the directions to the T and got a very sucessfull hatch, 20 out of 26 eggs. I was thrilled...
No way can grass alone supply all of a chickens metabolic needs. They need protein from somewhere ( bugs, worms, or combined grains in feed), starch (corn, grain), in addition to grass. You'd have some very unhealthy and unbalanced birds. Especially if you are trying to raise meat chickens. They...
I would like to buy a bunch of eggs from you if they are available.
I am in Michigan. I don't know if I can get varing amounts of different eggs but I'd like these quantities if they are available:
4 or 5 buff orpingtons
5 speckled sussex
10 to 12 welsummer
4 dominique
I can do paypal.
What...
Did you know there are 2 yahoo groups for chicken keepers in Michigan? Both of these groups should allow you to find folks with what you are looking for. One is MI_Poultry_Lovers and the other is mipoultryfanciers
Both are full of the nicest people. If you don't know how to find the groups on...
I am in Oxford and I've recently lost a number of young pullets and had one full grown chicken killed on the front lawn, probably by a neighbor dog. The pullets were in a protected area, but not protected enough obviously. I'm bummed because I hatched them all out myself and was so excited to...
I am looking for designs for new nesting boxes to build for my new layer flock and so I did a google search under IMAGES for "chicken nesting box" and I came across so many cool ideas, plans, pics from tons of web sites and blogs. I could look at this stuff for hours. It's so fun to see the...