LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[ChocolateMouse]

Well, the good news for the day is I may have a rabbit coming in September for a pretty reasonable price that I'm excited for. A tricolored doe. I've been working toward tris for a while now so that's really great.

 

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[Kusanar]

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[AllenK RGV]

Thanks @DuckLady for opening the thread back up. I was so sad this morning when I came in and saw it was shut. I guess I have a lot of catching up to do.

Does anyone here know if there’s a thread within BYC for Black Soldier Fly larvae? I keep finding small threads but feel there HAS to be some large thread? Maybe not.

I found 10,000+ larvae yesterday in one of my shavings and poop buckets from the geese pouring it into my compost. WHAT? My chickens must have eaten over there for 6 hours and I had to pick up a few to bring them Home to the coop at night.

I’m thinking I should be setting up one of those auto feeders of these for the chickens.

I will pm you a link or schematics. We get em at the bottom of our compost all the time. Least I can do for a fellow Texan. I have lost 2 computers since then but all you need is a 55 gallon barrel inclined to its open end, compost, and a T-shape rain gutter that is closed to harvest them. I may need to redraw it.

 

[jolenesdad]

LOL to the direction of this thread. Taking a big break from BYC for a bit.

I will pm you a link or schematics. We get em at the bottom of our compost all the time. Least I can do for a fellow Texan. I have lost 2 computers since then but all you need is a 55 gallon barrel inclined to its open end, compost, and a T-shape rain gutter that is closed to harvest them. I may need to redraw it.

thank you!!!

 

[KikiDeAnime]

How's everyone's day going?

Mine's been fine aside from the fact that our 6 yr old intact female cat escaped into the backyard.
She used to be an outside cat but after having 5 kittens(1 litter 2016, then 1 single kitten 2017), I decided against my parents that she should be an indoor kitty. I keep going out to look for her but I think she's wandering the neighborhood. I'm going to wait until night to see if she's back.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Oof. Today has been sub par. Been having a nice bout of insomnia and anxiety this week.

But I got the last of my cockerels processed! And that's tasty.

Still gotta check on my baby rabbits for the day, despite being very tired, then tomorrow I need to breed more does and start cleaning my space up a bunch. I'm having a masks-on, socially-distanced, outdoor holiday party with a very small number of people on the 1st. I honestly oughta start cleaning tonight but I'm not sure that'll happen.

 

[KikiDeAnime]

Oof. Today has been sub par. Been having a nice bout of insomnia and anxiety this week.

But I got the last of my cockerels processed! And that's tasty.

Still gotta check on my baby rabbits for the day, despite being very tired, then tomorrow I need to breed more does and start cleaning my space up a bunch. I'm having a masks-on, socially-distanced, outdoor holiday party with a very small number of people on the 1st. I honestly oughta start cleaning tonight but I'm not sure that'll happen.

Hey, do you mind if I ask how you go about choosing a good doe for breeding? What do you look for?

 

[AllenK RGV]

Lol I was spinning around depending on my faulty memory cells and files saved to my desktop.... google seemed to remember better than I do regarding elegant solutions to BSF harvesting: https://gardenpool.org/beneficial-insects/black-soldier-fly-composter-automatic-chicken-feeder