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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
While we are rebuilding our barn we have our flock separated into two groups: the older layers and the juveniles. The older layers are currently bunking with the goats while the juveniles are in a large chain-link dog run (the 7ft tall version) literally a foot off our back porch. When we...- wlhtx
- Post #18,854
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
If you do then I will totally be one to subscribe. I haven't chimed in on this yet, but I adore your photos, Mumsy. As a lifelong bookworm who has read The Secret Garden literally about 100 times, I aspire to a yard that looks like yours. However my yard is currently a blank slate - truly...- wlhtx
- Post #18,805
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Oh yeah - the boy LOVED it. He also loved giving me a hard time. I'm not super girly, but I'm also not super fond of picking up bugs. I was out there with the thickest leather lawn gloves that my DH owns. I will neither confirm nor deny that I may have screamed like a girl a time or two...- wlhtx
- Post #18,691
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
I definitely do not recommend our way of catching June bugs. Back in May when they were so bad here, we would turn on the outside lights once it got dark in the evenings. Then DH and I (and our 6 yr old boy) would go out and just wait for them to fly into the side of the house, then we'd just...- wlhtx
- Post #18,687
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Interesting article! I've never had or even seen kefir. Does it taste like sour Greek yogurt? (I wouldn't know what else to compare it to...) Thanks for posting this, Leahs Mom. THIS is the type of stuff I come to this thread hoping to find.- wlhtx
- Post #18,674
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Chooks4life, I ran across another thread where someone read a magazine article regarding the health benefits of feeding garlic to the chickens. They were looking for additional info and I pointed them in your direction since you have set forth the best info on the subject that I have read. I do...- wlhtx
- Post #18,670
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
This made me laugh! This is my 3 yr old's favorite song. I have video of her singing the chorus over and over and over. Cute stuff, but she gets the words all jumbled up. :)- wlhtx
- Post #18,656
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
So rants about vegans, vegetarians, and "hardcore Christians" are fine, but rants about gluten free diets sets you people off? What is going on with this thread today?- wlhtx
- Post #18,577
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Someone else had mentioned how great grandma didn't swap birds with folks across log distances. I was just setting out an argument to the contrary. I agree we aren't living in the 1840s. It's just a discussion. I'm only a recent reader of this thread and I don't have all of your locations...- wlhtx
- Post #18,548
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Yes, but you have to admit that - while your ancestors didn't make it all the way with their birds, some birds did make it the whole trek. And for those like your ancestors living on the large acre farms, they had to start over - presumably with birds from someone who made it the whole way. And...- wlhtx
- Post #18,541
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Leah's Mom, I don't know how much acreage you have, but take that advice about the deer with a grain of salt. Living in the piney woods of East TX, our property is crawling with white tail deer and, while they definitely do roam, I can tell you from observation that they tend to stay pretty...- wlhtx
- Post #18,533
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
x2 BTW, if I come across argumentative, my apologies. I'm a lawyer by day (rather than the full time farmer I would like to be). Sounding argumentative is just an occupational hazard...- wlhtx
- Post #18,514
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
My set up is undisputedly different than most. We live out in the middle of a large piece of property owned by my husband's family. Our closest neighbors are my in-laws and their house is right at a mile away from ours. Our dogs just do not roam. 1 is very old and just doesn't have the spunk...- wlhtx
- Post #18,512
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
I get it if you have a large outbreak of a contagious disease in your area. That makes sense to me. But just for your normal, every day owner (like me), I'm not going to switch clothes, bleach my shoes, etc. if I go pick up some new chicks from a neighbor down the road (like I did last weekend)...- wlhtx
- Post #18,503
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
X2 I still read and enjoy this thread, but I've realized that there is a bit of a difference in the meaning of "natural" as it is being used on this thread (where it references more of an "organic" means of raising) and "natural" as it is used on the OT thread (where it references more of a...- wlhtx
- Post #18,489
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
80 degrees here is truly a vacation. Almost makes you want to put on long sleeves. :) So I have a question about broody girls. I have a 2 yr old Jersey Giant that keeps wanting to go broody, but she is very easy to shoo off the nest. I just wave my hand at her, she squawks and gets up...- wlhtx
- Post #18,369
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
I have to admit, you all are cracking me up a bit with the hot weather talk. Now, remember, I live in East TX where the summers are always crazy hot and humid (100 degrees + is par for the course here). I don't know ANYONE that doesn't have A/C in their house... I'm thinking you all must be...- wlhtx
- Post #18,362
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
Ooooh - good luck! Please report back with your results!- wlhtx
- Post #18,189
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
You're lucky! I made the mistake of thinking mine would ignore the oyster shell and put out a large feeder full. My dairy goats tore into that too and it was completely gone before I realized what was happening. The goats seem to ignore the broken egg shells though, so we're just going with...- wlhtx
- Post #18,001
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The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!
My comment was really more of a general sympathetic statement at seeing that someone else's goats also feel the need to be all up in the way when the FF (or any other food for that matter) gets broken out. :) I'm not "punishing" the chickens for the goats enthusiasm... This is the first week...- wlhtx
- Post #17,999
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