I was recently made aware of this forum and figured today was a great day to move our story here.
This is Angela. The resident Queen Bee of our flock was the first to lay, and has been an absolute unit. 66 eggs in 66 days on the same day that our flock reached egg 333. Angela, we salute you.
austra white chicks
black sex link chicks
chicken math is real
golden sex link chicks
pellet bedding
pullet shut
ratproofchickenfeeder
rhode island red chicks
school chickens
snap lock coop
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
While we've joked about having our own supply of fresh eggs, we never planned to raise chickens. As of last Friday we're now backyard chicken farmers(well garage, for now)!
Here's our timeline:
Thu: Our older child's class hatched 6...
austra white chicks
beginner
black sex link chicks
golden sex link chicks
pullet shut
ratproofchickenfeeder
rhode island red chicks
school chickens
snap lock coop
tractor supply chicks
This is by fart he best feeder I've had. I have owned this for over 4+ years, it just works. I live in Arizona so it hot and the heat destroys most everything. Not this feeder though. :). I have 9+ birds, It took them a day or so to figure it out, but once they did my feed cost went down, the...
I'm not sure how many times I told customers that I would never make a large version of our rat proof chicken feeder, that it wasn't feasible for several reasons but it turns out there was a way to get it done and escape some of the hold backs.
One of the issues was making a longer door meant...