Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

[Joe33]

Great picture! Thanks for sharing it.

 

[smyers32]

I don't ever feed eggs to the chicks. Their formulated feed is nutrition enough and the FF makes it doubly so. I've fed raw eggs to the older flock before but not too many...just a stray egg now and again that was too poopy for my taste. It's always a race to see who gets it, the dog or the chickens.

Ok, that's kinda what I was leaning towards. I fed the hens a couple raw eggs a few weeks back. One of them had such a strong shell, it didn't break the first time i threw it down! I had to pick it up and throw it down harder. The funky little blue hen slurped almost the whole thing up like a bowl of soup in one gulp!

 

[thedragonlady]

That is truly one of my favorite parts about winter time..that wood heat. It just creeps into your bones and warms them from the marrow on out...it's almost hypnotic, like a good massage.

Bee,

I heated with wood for 21 years in Ga. Do you use Wild Cherry wood? I loved it for the lack of smoke and creosote. Makes a hot fire too. I got the tip from an old bootlegger who used it to burn hot, with almost no smoke.A couple of green WC logs thrown into the Grandpa Bear stove would hold heat until morning, when I put some dry in for quick heat.

 

[Beekissed]

Wild cherry is hard to find around here...lumber companies have timbered around here pretty heavy and reseeded to loblolly pine. All the good hard wood trees are gone except a few here and there. We burn whatever we can get our hands on most days, just a mix of whatever. We have a barrel stove and it ain't picky, burns hot on everything.

 

[smyers32]

Good to know for all us ACV lovers..
http://www.lifeatmennageriefarm.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-make-your-own-apple-cider-vinegar.html

 

[JeffOeuf]

I like cherry, but dry it burns up fast, and I save most of what I can get my hands on to use in my meat smoker. In the stove, nothing quite beats scrub white oak.

I'm so far behind in getting my wood ready for this year it isn't even funny. Luckily, the weather's nice this weekend, and my wife has a friend from work with a tree that blew down in her field this past summer. She needs help and we need wood!

 

[Fred's Hens]

OK, here's just today's haul. I'm pooped.

 

[Beekissed]

Now, just load that up and bring it on over.....

Our wood shed has been full since the end of Sept. but we are always adding to the outside stacks..just in case. Just in case causes a lot of extra work around these parts.

 

[Miss Lydia]

OK, here's just today's haul. I'm pooped.

Pretty , makes you feel good to look at it though doesn't it.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Now, just load that up and bring it on over.....

Our wood shed has been full since the end of Sept. but we are always adding to the outside stacks..just in case. Just in case causes a lot of extra work around these parts.

Did you want I should split it first?