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My wife has started dehydrating our garden produce, and says you can scramble the eggs, dehydrate, and rehydrate them to eat much much later. Also, some people dehydrate them raw and use the powder to cook with (insert health warnings here). --Chris

Good Morning! 3/3 today. Easter Egger (Edie, blue egg), Rhode Island Red (Ruthie, dark brown egg) and Black Austrolop (Bessie, light brown egg). Ruthie and Bessie are pretty regular, Edie is usually 2 out of 3 days, but just recently started laying eggs. I live in Central Florida BTW...

Wife: Maybe we should get ducks Me: Let's wait till we get the chickens and they are settled in first. Then think about it Wife: What would you name the ducks if we got some? Me: Hmm.....Ritz & Triscuit (evil grin) Wife: What? Why? . . . . Me: Because they are Quackers... Wife...

Thanks! I may ask the nest/coop question in a separate thread. Finished the hutch! My wife and I built it from scratch. Much of it scrap wood from other projects. Still need to level it properly and set the height and put in the bedding and "furniture" :D Ran out of time. Next...

Greetings! I live in the Greater Tampa Bay, FL area. No problems with zoning or HOA where I live out in the country. Plan is to start with 1 or 2 bunnies, 3 or 4 hens, and 6 or so finches. Will do in stages, currently have 1 bunny that we rescued from a local shelter (3 year old 4lb...

HeWhoWantsToRaiseChickens was too long. So I shortened it :D

Great ideas! Thanks

Funny thread :) There is a difference though between every day ignorance (you can't know everything), willful ignorance (deliberately not wanting to know something) and stupidity (inability to know.) I don't mind the first and the last in that list, I get extremely annoyed by the people who...

Did some reading after you suggested them, they sound awesome. My wife wants a Silkie, 'cause they are cute :D Will probably get one Australop, one Silkie and not sure about the third. Maybe a RIR or a Buff Orpington?

Good layers that are fairly docile and would be able to handle Florida summer heat. The number of options are mind boggling.

Greetings! My wife and I are buying our first house southeast of Tampa, Florida, 12/01/2014 (if all goes well.) It is a countryish property with 2/3rds of an acre and we are very excited to start keeping some egg laying chickens. Starting with 3 and working are way up to about 8 or 10 over...