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Thx for info. Good luck with the jelly

Couple of questions: Bielfelders how long should they take to lay? These two were hatched in October and nothing so far. One was injured (attacked) when young but full recovery seems to have been made. Squash: Started from seed on time moved out into hay bale garden (that had layer of old...

Thanx Beekissed. We have seen this in the past and two main reasons for us to stay away. Heat beating on the bag just makes our granola brains think of stuff leeching from the bag to our plants. And the barrier of the bottom of the bag stopping us from getting deeper roots. Hoping to use the...

Changing topics a bit. We were going to put in raised beds this year after having little success in ground last year. Then on CL we found "free hay" which I figured was mis-listed and was actually going to be free straw. And we decided to do some straw bale gardening but we would put the...

Where at woodsdweller? My wife and I would love to see some demos and learn. Small flock right now but we anticipate culling some early next year.

Thanx for that @chicken girl 15.

Thanx @rancher hicks. We do compare ours to cheap eggs as although much better quality. If I didn't have the birds I would be buying the cheap eggs due to budget constraints. I did find something posted from another user that did try and quantify their manure which was nice. I haven't paid...

[quote name="duluthralphie" I totally agree on the dogs. Even my own sometimes. No fenced back yard. No rooster allowed either...haha. Our run is made of fence panels with chicken wire stretched over the top. So far our interesting neighbor has not found fault yet with that but I'm sure...

"@OrganicFarmWife" we have seen this and plan on using something similar for chicks out into the run area off of the coop with the tunnel leading back into their crate within the coop.

@Beekissed great article on FF I think I will start a batch tonight. For our feed we are mixing laying formula with whole corn kernels. @Tiktok mentions fermenting what you are feeding. Do you know if the process would work with full kernels? We are looking at our garden beds and are going...

@duluthralphie all hens are older and I expect less production but was hoping for something. Sex links are over 1yr old, Silkie is just under a year, Orpington is unknown, and the Easter egger is roughly 3yrs (but at least she gave up one, yay! victor and mother tucker

Unfortunately we are in the city and cannot free range. We are toying with deep litter. Wife is kinda having a hard time with the thought. Hurts me some as I have been using grass clippings and leaves as free mulch in landscaped areas to decrease mowing. We have thick straw down this year...

Had not been giving more light as we truly thought that the natural cycle would be better. Can you go into more depth?

@klopklop. Not too worried about making money just tracking eggs to cost in store pure $ so we are comparing cheap eggs to our higher quality yes but it is an exercise of income replacement. We have been switching out hens with friends who aren't laying. Bad thing is some I just gave away...

Just one roo and he pulls his weight sort of, he is a favorrells so not the meanest guy around. We had 5sexlinks that were given to us. After 3 weeks one started laying. We bartered some work for a Silkie who laid 3 eggs after about 2 weeks then stopped. We bartered for an Easter egger and...

The structure is not insured and was on the property upon arrival. All finishing touches were donated. Other inputs we are calculating are, power, water, gas used to chicken related activities, feed.

We just started with chickens and we are aggressively tracking the cost of all inputs (that we feel we can track). Right now we are upside down but feel we should be able to come out ahead once everyone starts contributing. Currently we have 6 freeloaders and one layer. Eventually the...