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Ok, I am NOT going to be able to read this thread much longer, have actual paid work to do, hahaha. Maybe a bit tomorrow. I gather that I am not the only one that had trouble with Barred Rocks in the heat - Buff Orpingtons and Australorps (I have black now) do better. And that Production...

If I am at home I can get them from the run to shade - just bring the dogs in and cut the chickens loose. But I live in open prairie, very few trees survive to get large enough to give shade. Their coop and run has a small area under run roof plus under coop (takes that much to get cool shade at...

I wonder whether large fowl tolerate the heat we get in Texas. Or it may have just been "feed store chicks" - one of my barred rocks dropped dead on a 108 day. Granted I quit seeing blood in eggs after she died, I think she had an internal problem. But I've been a bit leery of getting...

LoanWizaard, That's a really big slippery looking chicken in your picture!

I'll rest my case.

File went up to $3.49, I've got one. Used it last Friday...(and I don't even have a woods, but I do have a woodstove.)

How OLD are your free range chickens? The ones I culled were 18 months to 2 years. I'm allergic to cows milk, so I finally got a darned goat. And my dogs protect me from human coyotes, that gets them chicken jerky. I live at the edge of a large metropolitan area. My small dog weighs 55 lbs.

Al and Bee and Galanie - I do love this thread. I have virtually dropped off BYC but this thread keeps pulling me back in. I processed 3 of my birds last fall, but I just skinned them, not a lot of time to figure out how to get the feathers off. Ordered more birds this spring (black...

600 new replies since I was on here. I'm pretty sure I'll just use the search function to look things up! Good information and a wonderful thread, but I don't have time for the whole thread tonight. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.

I just wish the coyotes would handle the weasels as well as they handle outdoor cats. I keep big dogs in my backyard, the coop is not up against the fence so dogs have full access BUT I keep the dogs in the house at night most nights. They were out for a couple of weeks at the height of the...

Trapping a hawk is illegal. Trapping a weasel is nigh on impossible, been trying for a couple of months. My answer to the situation: fix the chicken pen. In the case of the hawk a net stretched over your "free range area" or use of a tractor, will probably save you some birds. If the hawk...

I collected about a dozen eggs my customer's hen had hidden in a front yard nest - customer was going to throw them in the trash. I took them home, ate them. They were addicting, I bought chicks in March the next year, when the feed store got them. My birds have access to my fenced yard to free...

MY question is : when should I let the ee's out? With this crazy tropical storm hanging around, I need to be able to keep the door to coop open, so when the pouring rains comes, they all run back in. With a storm coming, I wouldn't let new pullets out until they know where home is. For the...

Learn something new every day. I thought LGD was just Large guard dog.

Obviously the recent posters don't have coyotes running up their street at night. My birds free range is limited to a privacy fenced back yard. They and the LGD take turns in the yard, the fence is too high for the coyotes, and skunks and coons don't think much of my dogs and are never sure...

Identifying healthy vs unhealthy chickens, predator and flock management.

There is a roof - tin part, and chicken wire part - on my run. It doesn't always keep the sparrows out, and a rodent can get through, but while I was building the run red tailed hawks were circling above my yard, and I'd already lost a pullet to a dog, and another to a feral cat, and I said...

If your dog has half the bee appetite that 2 of mine have, you could have your own personal CCD. My bees were hitting the holly bushes last march, and my G.Shepherd / Border collie and rott mix, both tall, were side by side, eating the bees off the bush. I fenced them out of that area, then...

Well, I'm looking for an in-between path between natural and the reality of the coop / run. My present coop and run aren't movable. My dogs do a good job of deterring predators when they are out, and the smell of them deters predators when they are in the house. I had a dog with an eye and taste...

Aw, Ridge, I'd miss you! Gypsi