Our Brooder
We start with day old chicks from Hatcherys,then raise them in our brooders.
The first 2 days I start them on newspaper until they know what their food looks like.
Our Chick Handlers
Most often my chick handlers pick favorites
Here is a mixed batch of BR,BA,RR,WR,BO
Once...
Meatbirds
Although we raise chickens for eggs for our familys use,meatbirds are our specialty.
We perfer the Cornish-X because of the rapid growth,large breasts and their quality meat.
A Cornish-X can be raised from hatch in as little as 6 weeks depending on the size that fits your needs...
Welcome to our Backyard Chickens page
The Heveland Gang
We are The Hevelands
My youngest daughter makes the press
12/10/09
Newspaper clipping reads:
Full of Christmas spirit, Hannah Heveland wanted to give a gift from...
Our Hen House
Inside
Our Layers
The owners of Hevelands Henhouse
The perks of a Backyard flock
Have you ever wondered "What came first the chicken or the egg?"
Look it up in the good book --- Genesis 1:10-20
According to the bible, the chicken came first: "And the evening...
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I always wanted to find an old trapoline and one of those big old dishes like people used before Direct Tv, Dish network and Primestar went with the smaller ones. Will
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They sure will. If you put it in front of them they will eat it. Anytime you switch something in their diet could cause and interuption. But after awhile they will get use to it.
I feed crumbles when I first start them as chicks. Then after that I put them on mash. For me, where I am mash is about half the price. They waste some with the mash but the cost savings are still so great you can't compare. 50# of mash $7+/ 50# of crumbles or pellets $12-15. Will
I would cover all but the front in heavy plastic, face it toward south east and fill the bottom with raked up dry leaves. Keep a few bags over winter to add as needed or if it gets wet. Throw a few handfuls of scratch on the leaves each day and they will scratch up the leaves(good exercise)...
Yeah, stick around just because your taking a break doesn't mean you can't learn more or help others with what your experience has been. Just stay with the social part of it for a while. We sure would love to keep you. Will
Either way wintertime always seems like your feeding costs are more than what your getting back.
I think that in my area the fall is the best time to get chicks. This way your 16week+/- waiting period is done over a time that your egg production will be slower anyways. I use to get mine in the...
I've always used a processor. In my area they get between $1.65-$2. per bird depending on what you want. I've always said for that, I couldn't keep the water hot. These people have all the equipment and can do 25-50 birds in a couple hours. It would take us a good part of a day. Then I couldn't...
You really can't stop roosters from fighting. It's really in their make-up. They are here to be dominant and breed all the hens they can. That's how mother nature made them. I know people think man made them or taught them to fight but that's so wrong. They were like that long before we...
If chickens are outlawed, only outlaws would have them. I'd be looking for a new place to live if you really want to keep them. I wonder what our founding fathers would have thought if they were told they couldn't have chickens? Will
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I second the # 2. Another method I read from Cornell down my way is to put the chicks in a 5gal bucket of water then push another 5gal pal down in the pal to drowned them. It will work but I think #2 is more humane. Will