- Dec 1, 2012
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Hi there
I am a natural-living Mommy of 4 kids who moved to 460 acres to give the kids natural healthy living and do some homesteading. We have 14 hens, and 2 roosters, and 4 goats. We will be adding cattle and a milk cow soon.
I have Americaunas, one grey mixed chicken, a peachy-coloured one, some Barred rock crosses, and we have added 4 red hens. Actually I have a question about them and I will be posting it soon.
We get mostly blue and brown eggs, but have got sage green and olive green as well. It appears my Americaunas are taking a little break from laying, it is currently -25 and the days are short here. The sun comes up at 9am and goes down at 5:30pm. I do keep lights on for them and we do get about 5 eggs a day.
My chickens live in a coop that has 15 boxes, is about 12 x 15 and has a wallow with ashes/sand and a gravel and a couple extra roosts and a walk-out. They stay in there at night and during the day when the goats get turned out they have the run of the whole barn. Their feathers gleam and they are very sociable, they eat a lot of good stuff, mainly the laying mash, alfalfa (as much as they would like), black oil sunflower seed, oats, some cracked corn/grain mix (it is so cold I think they need extra fat and oil), whatever leftover scraps I have--grapes, carrot gratings, apple peels, bread, etc. They peck and scratch and talk etc.
My lead rooster is a Blue Wheaten Bantam Americauna, and the other rooster is a Barred Rock crossed with somethin g that gives me yellow and geren tinges to his wings.
I have lurked quite a bit.
Jackie
I am a natural-living Mommy of 4 kids who moved to 460 acres to give the kids natural healthy living and do some homesteading. We have 14 hens, and 2 roosters, and 4 goats. We will be adding cattle and a milk cow soon.
I have Americaunas, one grey mixed chicken, a peachy-coloured one, some Barred rock crosses, and we have added 4 red hens. Actually I have a question about them and I will be posting it soon.
We get mostly blue and brown eggs, but have got sage green and olive green as well. It appears my Americaunas are taking a little break from laying, it is currently -25 and the days are short here. The sun comes up at 9am and goes down at 5:30pm. I do keep lights on for them and we do get about 5 eggs a day.
My chickens live in a coop that has 15 boxes, is about 12 x 15 and has a wallow with ashes/sand and a gravel and a couple extra roosts and a walk-out. They stay in there at night and during the day when the goats get turned out they have the run of the whole barn. Their feathers gleam and they are very sociable, they eat a lot of good stuff, mainly the laying mash, alfalfa (as much as they would like), black oil sunflower seed, oats, some cracked corn/grain mix (it is so cold I think they need extra fat and oil), whatever leftover scraps I have--grapes, carrot gratings, apple peels, bread, etc. They peck and scratch and talk etc.
My lead rooster is a Blue Wheaten Bantam Americauna, and the other rooster is a Barred Rock crossed with somethin g that gives me yellow and geren tinges to his wings.
I have lurked quite a bit.
Jackie
