Delawares from kathyinmo

[LeslieDJoyce]

One more point ... the week of Thanksgiving, turkey is FREE at the grocery store if you buy $100 of groceries.

 

[finnfur]

I think you nailed it right there. Need better clientele that understand your not the chain supermarket or Tysons.
My wife drives 30 miles to pick up milk and grass fed beef.
Free range chickens taste a lot better than tysons and don't look like they have been injected with water .
The wife got a almost free "store" chicken the other day and after eating ours 2 years I told her " it didn't even have a good taste"

 

[Beekissed]

You know how to get them to forage? Start them out at 2 wks and only feed them twice a day what they can clean up in 15-30 min. Then, when they are 4 wks, only feed once a day...in the evening. That leaves the whole day filled with hunger motivated foraging. They are opportunistic eaters and the full feeder is the nearest opportunity...just take it away and make them work for their food. Then give them grains.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Yep, I agree. I heard a statistic once that our society used to spend 18% on food and 9% on healthcare... now it's reversed (and probably going up!)!! There are certain things I value and other things I don't... food is one that I value But I do understand people's hesitations about spending a premium on food.

haha... love your Egg Nazi reference, I'm a huge Seinfeld fan We do get some weird questions from time to time but it's just part of the game. My father-in-law is the one who goes there and he's really good with people. He was an extension agent for our county for a number of years and then retired to be a farmer. He's seen and heard just about everything I think!

If you're just trying to supplement your feed bill then I completely understand, those girls can eat you out of house and home!

I sell all my eggs from my 30 hens. Never have enough for everybody every week. I don't MAKE money doing it, but it helps with feed cost. Anything I think is better than nothing. I make some money when I start to breed. Eggs are just a buy product of the breeding hens most of the year. Plus I can't eat that many eggs.

People think there going to get in the chicken business and make all this money. NOT!! Chickens really are an expensive hobby. Unless you have 100's or 1,000's of them.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Oh, I completely agree, what you can raise at the farm is completely different than what one can get at the grocery store, it is a completely different product. Ah, good to know about the feed. I'd love to hear more on how you raise your birds? How do you house them? With restricting the feed do you still find they grow out nice? What kind of feeds are you fermenting, I'm not familiar with doing that. For our sheep we supplement their grass with oats which we sprout and that turns it more into a grass based feed instead of a grain, and I know we have some of our layer chickens who love that!

You can ferment any feed really. Pellets, Crumble or mash. I do the hot water method. Very easy to do. And everybody really loves it!!

 

[kathyinmo]

Posting for Gloria Jean (crazyhen)......

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Posting for Gloria Jean (crazyhen)......

 

[crazyhen]

Posting for Gloria Jean (crazyhen)......

This is my roo from Kathy, Thank you Kathy. I love him so far. He does have a little bleed through but at first I thought it was the clay here

. He is so broad and is larger than the white orp that I got from someone else on here that sells line bred stock.

 

[rancher hicks]

I'm considering an order of Dels from Whitmore. Would anyone care to give me some input? PM if you must. I lost my original rooster this year but do have George from Speckledhen and a youngster to work with.

The plan is to set up two flocks and cull based on weights.

Gotta run the queen is home

 

[har]

Does anybody have a nice looking rooster they could ship me?

Thanks

Scott