I'm not positive, but have to wonder, is your NH bottom of the pecking order because she came as a "1", or the only chick that age?
The reason that I'm asking is early this Spring I got a batch of chicks; 3 NHRs, 3 Saphire Splash, 3 Easter Eggers, 3 Golden Comets, and 3 Blue Laced Red...
Hi, I've been so busy between work and the work I do after work, that I haven't been web surfing much lately, and haven't been on BYC for a while, but a little thunderstorm brought me in and low and behold, you're all having a contest that involves some of the work that I've been doing after...
I have been watching a lot of Youtube videos about fodder already. I've been thinking of giving it a try too, but haven't gotten my 'round tuit' yet. For some reason, I was under the impression that most of them soaked 24 hours, a day, then seven more in trays, I'm glad that you studied this...
I'm very curious about this topic too, not so much for that specific cross, but just for Welsummer roosters in general. I have replaced my RIR rooster with a Welsummer rooster who hatched last summer. That RIR was an A hole. I'm wondering now if the offspring from the Welsummer and a variety...
I knew this old guy once who always had a great big garden in town. His whole backyard was a garden. Every Spring he'd get all of his plants pretty well established, then he'd go to the farm store and get three chicks. He'd raise them in the garden. It was a no chicken town, but he had a 6'...
It might not even be a bad idea to give newcomers a welcome basket, with some eggs, homemade jams, garden produce, a big smile and an offer to help, like if they need a hand occasionally, etc. Don't let them know that you're bribing them, just be nice enough that they may feel guilty for...
Very true, as soon as one belly-acher chimes in, it's all over. Well not completely, you're just back to 9 birds and a pig. At least you got away with it for a while - if you made it 29 years first, I'd call that a win. Hopefully, you've had success getting the rules changed by then. If...
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Sorry, I didn't see this for a while. I'm North of Ft. Laramie in Goshen County, but grew up on a ranch West of Wheatland in the Laramie Peak area. That's where this photo is from, on the North Laramie River in Medicine Bow NF area. I am lucky in my job though, especially when I get...
Those hog nosed snakes will play possum, rolling over on their back and puffing up to look dead and bloated if they get cornered or too agitated. They stay like that quite a while too.