KDOGG331’s Hatch Thread!!!

[Ted_Harrell]

Mine have at least another two to three weeks but they are growing really fast...

 

[FortCluck]

Mine have at least another two to three weeks but they are growing really fast...

Do you give them light when you put them outside? We basically have the same weather. Mine are so dusty inside it's driving me mental! I have them in the spare room with the door shut so the cat doesn't get them.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

I have some solar lights on the leghorns outside but what worries my with the SFH babies is the weather. It was upper 20s at until last night when the rain came in and it warmed up to the middle 40s. During the day it hasn't been that bad but of course I am not a baby chicken so...

 

[Ted_Harrell]

No cats here but they are on the other end of the house and the baby chirps drive my baby girl crazy some times....

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think it's hilarious when people eat chicken from the grocery store, but think it's cruel to raise your own... The chickens that you buy at the grocery stores are treated so poorly! I'm just glad that my chickens can spend 20 weeks very happy then be stuck in a meat farm stepping/sitting in poop obese and having a bad quality of life.

My mom is so grossed out that I am doing my own chickens. I showed her the plucker that I wanted to buy and she got grossed out just by seeing that

They'd make a good meal for my 5 lb puppy

I don't know if I am going to sell some of mine, I might sell some of the pullets. I'm not sure yet. I really don't want to deal with selling to people because if they get sick or what not I don't want to have to deal with people complaining. So far none have my chickens have been sick

When I breed my ducks, I probably won't sell any of their offspring because some will be mules Pekin/Muscovy cross. The rest will be straight Pekin.

Right!? That’s her thing. She thinks it’s gross and she’s also like “how can you kill something you raised and loved!?”

She probably thinks I’m some psycho killer or something LOL

And true! Maybe mine would be good food for DBs dogs lol they’re raw fed

And hmm yeah. I am worried about that too but maybe if they’re free people won’t complain since they didn’t pay lol

And that makes sense!!

Seems they’ll make good meat birds though haha

My babies are doing well, probably take some more pics this weekend. Had to move them to the bigger brooder through yesterday...

Nice!! Mine will probably be in the garage a while aha

We have something like 29 acres. Every time we see the description it changes.Some times they say 27.5 other times, it's 29 sometimes it's 28.5. Geesh, gimme a break. I think they say 29 because legally our property line is to the center of the road which adds to the over all acreage. About 7-8 acres are buildings, house, barn, chicken coop. The rest is timber. We would love more timber but reality is that getting older we don't need any more to manage and what we have provides us with firewood to heat with and forest to wander around in.

DH has spent a lot of time cutting trails and grooming them and as we live on a ridge there are a lot of hills to climb so we get a lot of exercise.

That sounds amazing.

That is ideal to me LOL

I would love to be able to have my own trails through the woods to hike and walk and stuff.

Especially since I want to get several dogs eventually so good exercise for them lol

 

[FortCluck]

No cats here but they are on the other end of the house and the baby chirps drive my baby girl crazy some times....

I'm not sure why mine are creating so much dust! I'm using pine shavings. I have to vacuum a lot in that room.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I would love to be able to get this one.

It seems amazing for the price and close to my mom’s family too haha

And trails already so I wouldn’t have to make them

https://m.landwatch.com/pennsylvania/warren-county/farms-and-ranches-for-sale/?id=333202158

 

[FortCluck]

We are looking into purchasing 11+ acres by next December. I cannot wait

 

[ShrekDawg]

We are looking into purchasing 11+ acres by next December. I cannot wait

That’s awesome!! Bet that will be amazing.

I want to have at least 10 but preferably like 20. Feel like 10 is pretty common now and you can still have close neighbors haha

20-30 would be ideal I feel like. Or even 40 or 50. Probably not more than 50 though.

Under 50 but over 5 or 10 is great cause you can have enough room to have a lot of animals or a big garden or whatever and a trail system/hiking or field or whatever but not so crazy big it’s hard to take care of haha

 

[ShrekDawg]

We are looking into purchasing 11+ acres by next December. I cannot wait

11 is a nice size.