Heather- so sorry to hear it. I know we never met, but I considered you a friend none-the-less.
hugs, girl. I know your life must be exhausting and I am sending all my spare energy your way.
no chickeny stuff today but I did go to the Montpelier fiber festival.
I almost bought a bunny. left to my druthers I would have but the husband would have had a cow. they had 4 week old blue angora bunnies. I was in love.
I DID buy 3 small Finn fleeces that I am very excited about. They are...
I have too many roosters. I wish I didn't like the roosters so much...they have such personalities. They strut, they show the girls where the food is (mostly to woo them, I think)
I have this rooster that makes nests for the hens and kind of clucks at them to show it to them. yeah, sometimes...
are these the turkeys? I wouldn't brood them with chickens, but maybe you don't have the Balckhead problem there that we do here. evidently here, Blackhead is everywhere. but I don't know a whole lot about it because I don't have turkeys.
So I was counting on my fingers and toes my roosters and realized I have actually named almost all of them and they have spaced themselves out in the 3 coops nicely. We have 13 roosters and 27 hens, (not counting the 6 hopefully female chicks I just picked up and are in the basement.) so our...
LOL no, I wouldn't want to charge them anything.
I am so lucky. My husband and I have really decent jobs (fingers crossed that it stays that way) and this I would just be for fun. and having the incubator here at work would be so great...like a community thing! And they have a generator...
So many people here at work have asked if I would help them get started in chickens after seeing my "idyllic farmette" and I have had to regretfully say "no" about hatching them out chicks or selling them birds or eggs. But this leads into a conversation about biosecurity, which is something I...
I have thought about creating a bachelor area but so far no one is getting injured so it hasn't warranted the effort. And because I am not breeding either for eggs or chicks, I don't need to separate out the breeds, so they can all intermingle. scratch feeding time is a hoot!!!
Next year if...