How did this turn out? Thinking of doing the same thing. I also wonder what other vegetables to grow to store for winter. We used to plant extra winter squash and keep them for our flock, plus anything that went a bit off that was in the root cellar.
I am not surprised that many of you like the Black Australorps, they seem very popular now days. We had a very mixed flock, it had Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island white and red, and several others. I think we may have had some Jersey Giants and Orpingtons as well. We used to by a batch of mixed...
Hello All,
I have lurked around BYC for a long time now. A little about myself, I was raised in central Nebraska on a farm. We had both a free range flock of egg layers and raised about 600 broilers a year. We also had ducks, a few turkeys at times, and guinea fowl. It was my brother and I...