Two years ago we bought a batch of White Leghorns and Brown Leghorns. The white ones are pretty skiddish, most of them run away when we go in the chicken run. The brown ones are absolute freaks! They run, fly, dart, jet, as soon as we open the door and start walking across the yard. The only way...
We have raised turkeys for about six years now. The first four years we bought them with new laying hens or meat chickens and raised them together. However, someone strongly advised us to not raise them together because they can pass viruses to one another. So last year we separated them. The...
As I mentioned in my intro, we have 18 older hens (3-4 years) that have started eating their eggs. I tried putting ceramic eggs in the boxes, golf balls, and even built a roll-a-way bed for them (picture attached), but it didn't stop, they just stopped laying them in the boxes and then would eat...
Hi I am Pastor Robert. My wife wants me to get a sign on our coop that says "Pastor's Chicks". We try to live a simple life in Idaho. I retired from the Navy in 2008 and have since been learning as much as we can about organic gardening, raising meat chickens, turkeys, hunting big game, and...