Hey everybody!!
Thanks for all the input, i'm still trying to sort it all out.
In my job I have access to alot of corn, but it's hit & miss and when it's offered I have to take it at that time or loose out. So there are times when I have to take 2-3000#'s of corn at one time then I take it...
Hey Everybody, I'm in need of some BYC help.
We've wasted SOOO much feed due to mice, its driving me crazy. (can you say LAZY barn cats, ugh)
We've been looking for a "small" bin of some sort to store our feed in for sometime now and have been unsuccessful. I'm looking for something that...
We're in NE IN, out in the middle of nowhere :-)
We wer looking at raising our prices to $2, but so far, we haven't had too, but we'll see.
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That's very cheap. What state are you in? Here they would sell those eggs for close to 4$ & up a dozen.
Our chicken adventure started like alot of peoples did, the kids got into 4H. Now we look at it as a source of food and entertainment. As well as for the kids to learn a little responsibilities.
That being said we buy 50# bags of layer mash for ~$7-8 a bag, and use 2-3 bags a week. We get...
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Oh that's funny - 'mom eats hers' . I can't say that I've ever aten rabbit. Is there a lot of work involved in raising meat rabbits and then 'doing the needful thing' to eat them? ... just curious
We raise NZ whites for some of the same reasons mentioned in other posts
4H / shows...
UGGGGG, why did I look at this thread. I'VE BEEN BIT:drool
But it's 2 degrees here today, with a wind chill of 15 below.
I've got fertile RIR eggs, but I'm afraid it'd be too cold, 3wks to hatch then what 6-7wks in the brooder.?. that gets me to mid April. I might be able to do this:woot Now...
I was told that if you extend the wing, the girls have a relatively smooth/even curve to the wing. Boys will have little upside down V's all along the edge.
We're having the same issue. We are in NE IN and have 22 RIR's, all winter long we got 18-20 eggs a day, then about a week ago it started dropping and last night we got 13, day before 12, 11, 12 10. We just did the time change "Spring Forward" and I was wondering if that had something to do with it
Hi ALL,
Been visiting the site for months, just joined today. We have 24 RIR's that are 2 months old. Our oldest daughter (8yr) has been asking (read begging) for almost 2 yrs to get chickens, so we got them for her birthday and it's been her and my project this spring
We also have 3 New...