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Thats amazing and very funny...birds are a trip!!!

No heat, just plenty of food and water. And cover. My "chicken house" is a convterted kennel, I have tarps up on the west side, but didn't always, they seem to do fine, it is covered, but open on 2 sides, one being a not air tight tarp covering. They are eating more than they did before. I...

I use ceramic eggs, I drew faces on them so we could tell them apart from the real eggs. They stay in the nests pretty well. I used to have alot of snake issues when I lived in Missouri, but not since I have moved here to TN, (knock on wood, LOL) Most of my hens seem to be past the molt, one...

Quote: I guess what I mean was it is truely a tough project and it has to be approached with a definite goal and a well thought out plan. here is a link that is quite long but we discuss this and 3 or 4 of us me included had the same ongoing project and compared results as time went by and...

Happy New Year everyone, hope its a good one for all!! We will see if the zombie apocalypse actually happens in December and if so I am sure our chicken friends will help us through it!!! LOL!!!

I, too, am interested in this subject. I have raised a trio of lav amers and am wondering what comes next as far as continuing with them. They are almost 6 months old. I have no splits.

Quote: nice roo!!!

Really? DE not effective if wet? Some of the recommendations say to add it to water/liquid and drink, I would think this does not change the basic composition of DE, the sharp edges that are supposed to be the effective part...? An animal/human would get no effect then at all?

thanks doodle, will look them up!!

oops, I didn't add the pic with the 3 of them, sorry....

And MERRY CHRISTMAS to all on BYC from our house!! I had to work this weekend, so our family is not celebrating until Thursday.... Hope everyone had a great day!!

Blue Slate Turkey trio can you tell the tom from the hens? He is the one with the spots!!

Blue Slate Turkeys

Quote: Congratulations!! My usually lay around 5 1/2 mos but that is in the spring fall or summer. So winter is good for 6 mos. OMG I love your avatar!!! Just gorgeous! thank you guys, thats my gelding I bred raised and trained, he thinks hes pretty special!!

Got my very first egg from my BCM hen that hatched June 18th!!! Nice dark brown color and pretty good sized too!!

Got my first egg from my BCM hen that hatched June 18th!!!!! Beautiful dark brown, and pretty good sized too!!!

Quote: Beautiful!! Can't wait for mine to start laying!!

Don't know if its OK for me to ask this here or not, but here goes, about the canning classes, I know how to can, but need to know where I can get the gaskets and pressure gauge checked on my pressure canner, is there somewhere that I can do this? Have had the thing for years and never used it...

Quote: ya, I stay pretty busy, to say the least, but not yet ready for spring, gotta get through Christmas first, then will start looking thru the garden catalogs and start some plants...I kinda like the slower (somewhat) pace of winter too, tho I don't care to have to break too much ice.

Baby goats are adorable!! I' :jumpylike to get back into them again, to milk I mean....