Arkansas folks speak up.........

[autumnprairie]

I have been on here for a couple of months, I live in Biscoe, east of Little Rock. I am noticing black spots on the combs of my chickens not sex specific is it blood from pecking each other?

 

[draye]

A. Friend :

Bentonville, Arkansas, new to BYC. I have never raised chickens as an adult, but my husband and I just moved from town to the small farm where I grew up and plan to get some chicks in the spring. We're in the process of tearing apart a fallen down barn, will burn the roof wood in our stove as it's too rotten to do anything else with, and will use some of the rafter boards as framing for the small, movable coop that I'm building. It will look like a gypsy wagon and will have a separate tractor that can move wherever the coop moves. I hope to have enough layers to sell a few eggs for "feed money".

Although my parents raised a few cows, pigs, and chickens, hauled hay, milked a cow, made a huge garden and preserved food, after nearly 30 years in town, I remember very little of the "how-to's" of farming. If you've ever seen the BBC comedy "The Good Life" that pretty much is my husband and me, but we're trying to learn. So far we've had some good laughs at ourselves, nursed some wounds, and found ways to productively work out stress. My husband loves to work out and has a room full of equipment but he was complaining that he didn't have time to exercise since we moved. He commented on his sore arms one day and realized he had hauled several wheel barrow loads of wood out of the hollow. So he still gets to work out, it just looks different!

My husband was raised in the city and apparently still is a city boy- he would like to move back to town- but I am really looking forward to being a farm woman and have learned so much from the forums at BYC.

from,
Mabelvale, AR (Saline County)​

 

[John farmer]

Merry Christmas Hall family and welcome A. Friend I live not far down the road in Tontitown we raise good SQ poultry and Have chicks and grown birds most of the time , let us know when you get ready to fill your coop .

 

[jenjscott]

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Watch these closely, this time of year is when I see outbreaks of fowl pox.

 

[Gerry2011]

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from,
Mabelvale, AR (Saline County)

and good luck from Jasper, AR!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Watch these closely, this time of year is when I see outbreaks of fowl pox.

Jen is right (She is usually right!)

Please post some photos here and under the section Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures Then more folks can weigh in with their opinion.

 

[jenjscott]

Sound off, Arkansas!

25 low, 27 degrees now at 6 am with a heavy heavy frost. Southeast corner of Arkansas.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Is that 27 inside or outside the levy?

A bit warmer 30 miles west. Its 28 in Monticello!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Up in the Northwesrt Corner, I've got 22 degrees with no frost and no wind.

 

[Gerry2011]

At 2150' in Newton county it was 25 deg., sunny, no frost and no wind and the #&*@%! snow is melting!!