Quote: The Hen is a blue double laced Barnevelder. I have standards ( " black double laced") , blue double laced and my new project chicks are silver double laced. I started a silver project a few years ago, but gave them to my neighbor. She now has given three chicks back to me so I can work on the project again.
I feed bar ale. I like their chick starter for little chicks. It's a smaller crumble and the chicks seem to prefer it to brands like purina. I feed their layer pellet with cracked corn and oyster shell to my layers. Bar ale also has a meat bird mini pellet that works really well for growing out young stock. It is reasonable in cost and quality. I like that it is really fresh being made locally.
Trisha
They are beautiful!
Thank you for the feedback on the Bar Ale. TSC was out of Game Bird feed and I refuse to go back down to Chico tomorrow since it is supposed to be 108. I will see if the my feed store has the Game Bird version in stock tomorrow....
You must have been going crazy without going online for that long. I would have at least been on my phone...My wife and I just got back from going to see her brother in the Atlanta area. Didn't go on line once while there. We were gone a week and it will take me a whole day to catch up on all the threads I subscribe to. It will be fun reading, but I don't like to fall that far behind. This is definitely an obsession.
My chickens are loose in my backyard right now under the fruit trees and grapes that are being watered with micro sprinklers. While we were in Atlanta my daughter collected the eggs and feed the chickens. She said she will miss doing that.
I have two misting fans set up to mist and blow air into the pens when the chickens are not free ranging in my backyard.
Kern
I think I am going to have to break down and get some misters.