The road less traveled...back to good health! They have lice, mites, scale mites, worms, anemia, gl

aoxa said:

I'll take you up on this in the AM. We're talking about barred rocks on the Natural Chicken Keeping Thread.

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colburg said:

For going on vacation, I just scoop out FF into appropriate portions for someone to just dump out for the chickens.  Friends, customers, neighbors, and family are all more than willing to help. 

Example for leaving for 4 days.  Since I feed about 1.5 gallons of feed once a day anyway, it's pretty simple.  I fill 8 1gal buckets 3/4 full.  Tell whoever's coming to feed them to just grab 2 buckets/day and dump into the feeder.  The feed in those buckets will just keep fermenting while it's waiting.  I've gone up to 5 days without stirring a bucket of FF and it's been fine.

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aoxa said:

How's the weather there? Couldn't do it here today. So cold! I couldn't even close my barn door yesterday it was frozen open. I broke out the chisel and had to remove a ton of debris in the sliding part of the door. Was not easy. I was ready to take a nap after lol.


I'm going through my photos now looking for a certain image (haven't found it yet) I did come across this one though, and love it. Not sure what breed this girl is, but she was slim, agile and one of the best free rangers I've had. Gave her to a friend because she was having a terrible time waiting on her first eggs. This girl was laying. Thought she'd like her

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aoxa said:

I sure hope you keep that blog up Leigh, it's definitely one I cherish. Even if you can't quote Bee. I think she has taught you so much as you can teach it in your own words

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Rachel'sFlock said:

I pray that difference of religion doesn't divide another group of like-minded individuals.
Everyone who has persevered thru 600+ pages of this thread deserves to have what they came here for. An education in how to raise chickens, naturally.
It was my understanding that is why we are here.

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delisha said:

The Rhode Island Red was developed in the US state of Rhode Island in the 1890s. Crossing a large variety of other breeds including the Buff Cochin, Langshon, Black Red Malay, Hamburgh and Rose combed Leghorns together created the Rhode Island Red. The Rhode Island is another bird created for both meat and eggs, to satisfy the demands of the American population. The breed arrived in the UK in 1903 and became extremely popular very quickly. The Rhode Island Red is possibly the best-known breed in the world today. The Rhode crossed with a Sussex forms the basis of most of our present day hybrids

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Bulldogma said:

Aoxa -
I'm gong to do my very best to keep the blog going!


RF - I think the root of the issue (and let me stress think) is that BYC does not allow posts of a religious nature on its forum. That can be a hard thing to abide to when religion is such an important part of your life.


Delisha - may I please quote you and get your help on a blog post about the RIR? Your knowledge of the breed will be so very helpful to others (including myself).

And everyone - I need some good photos of RIRs for the blog!

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