BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[JRNash]

Sigh........ are maybe some fresh hot peach cobbler with some homemade vanilla icecream. I can't look anymore!!!

 

[bnjrob]

Sigh........ are maybe some fresh hot peach cobbler with some homemade vanilla icecream. I can't look anymore!!!

Ah yes, home canned peach pie filling to make cobbler with is good too! All I have to do is open a jar of my spiced peaches, add a little cornstarch to the syrup, and it's ready to go.

 

[DesertChic]

Sigh........ are maybe some fresh hot peach cobbler with some homemade vanilla icecream. I can't look anymore!!!

I've got a killer recipe for a peach upside down cake. Excessive heat aside, I think I'm going to buy some fresh peaches and treat myself and my family to cake and homemade whipped cream.

 

[DesertChic]

I now have FOUR broody hens now.

The Silkie and the Cochin/NN mixes don't surprise me....but a White Rock pullet that just started laying a month ago????? I always heard that White Rocks weren't broody birds, but someone forgot to tell my girl, Lily, that little fact.

I have to admit though....it's kinda funny to watch the rest of my flocks, include my "big manly cockerels", run in utter fear for their lives from a moody, broody pullet. My little 32 oz Silkie struts around making this strange, grumpy sound while she waits for someone to lay an egg for her to sit on and sends everyone running away, including my 8.5 pound mean NN cockerel. And on of my Bielefelder boys thought he would try mating with her today. LOL!!!! She chased him across 1/2 an acre, squawking at him the whole time.

Who needs TV when you have chickens?

 

[hellbender]

I know there will be naysayers but there are plenty of things can be 'put up' to feed chickens during the winter, should hard times fall upon us. We keep a lot of top quality alfalfa hay (a legume) that is great for chickens and we have decided to dry (string-hang) a bunch of these apples since we (they) have made so much apple sauce and butter that to make anymore would overload the area designed for it.

Lot's of other things....curious what others might consider???

 

[cyborg]

I grow black oil sunflower seeds, and buckwheat. The chickens love both!
Throw grapes in a dehydrator to make raisins, those are kind of popular too.

 

[DesertChic]

I know there will be naysayers but there are plenty of things can be 'put up' to feed chickens during the winter, should hard times fall upon us. We keep a lot of top quality alfalfa hay (a legume) that is great for chickens and we have decided to dry (string-hang) a bunch of these apples since we (they) have made so much apple sauce and butter that to make anymore would overload the area designed for it.

Lot's of other things....curious what others might consider???

I sprout seeds for mine in the winter, and since AZ is so warm in the wintertime I can always grow kale, Swiss Chard and other things for them to eat. And they get kitchen scraps and sometimes their own eggs, hard-boiled and crushed.

 

[JRNash]

Ive got a ton of fish.

 

[dfr1973]

I sprout seeds for mine in the winter, and since AZ is so warm in the wintertime I can always grow kale, Swiss Chard and other things for them to eat. And they get kitchen scraps and sometimes their own eggs, hard-boiled and crushed.

We grow the swiss chard for ourselves ... the chickens love the turnip greens the mostest. They'll eat the mustard greens and romaine lettuce, but far and away they love the turnip greens. They also like a certain weed that keeps encroaching on my garden beds.

 

[DesertChic]

We grow the swiss chard for ourselves ... the chickens love the turnip greens the mostest. They'll eat the mustard greens and romaine lettuce, but far and away they love the turnip greens. They also like a certain weed that keeps encroaching on my garden beds.

LOL! Mine won't touch turnip or beet greens. All of them love the kale and half of them love the Swiss Chard while the others just stare at it as if wishing it was something else.

The ALL love my tomatoes, though. I discovered that when I mistakenly left the gate to my fenced-off garden open.