Minnesota!

[Coffee 1st]

Let them free range the Yard today... wont happen again for atleast couple more wks.. I chased 3 chickens around my neighbors UNfenced yard.. they are still small enough to get through the chainlink fence... i was trying to herd them with a long board. if i could have got close enough i would have clunked them in their heads with it... but eventually the went back through the fence on my side and my dog chased them in their chicken run... Pomerania's make good chicken herders...LOL

Anyways my ButterScotch is always the bravest, she was the 1st one out of the run...

 

[duluthralphie]

A long poled fishing net is mandatory equipment for all chicken owners.

 

[Coffee 1st]

A long poled fishing net is mandatory equipment for all chicken owners.

now you tell me... hint to all newbies....

 

[Coffee 1st]

found my 1st feather today...

 

[Cluckies]

Coffee the chicken wrangler!

I would keep them in until they are to big to get out as well. Also, you can train then to come, they are very food motivated. Ring a bell (someone on here has a cow bell) or shake a treat bag, before you give them treats, then whe you need to pen them up to go somewhere, just shake that bag or ring that Bell, they come a running.

 

[KlopKlop]

I love the roosts!!

I need to make more natural ones, now that I have seen yours.

Like these?

Stopped off for dinner and to run the dogs and thought I could catch up. Lol yeah tight

 

[duluthralphie]

I think I am going to lose the hen that laid that funny egg.

Her butt looks "prolapsed" if that is possible for them to look that way. It is all collapsed in on itself. She is dripping blood. I thought about putting her out of her misery. BUT I am not sure and I admit I am a whimp at killing my birds.

 

[bantiesrule]

Now I have a question we opened this egg yesterday and it had a "grape" in it.. any idea what it is, I have never seen one, my Mom had never seen it either and she had chickens for 60 years or more.

It looks like a immature yolk. Ever butcher a hen? You will see a lot of yolks in different stages of growth. This just looks like one of those.

 

[Minniechickmama]

You would almost have to make them buy the coop and the rent the hens. It would be a struggle to charge enough to cover the expense of building (also consider wear and tear) and still attract consumers.

These are all just pipe dreams though

my crazy brain is always coming up with ideas so I just write them down

Are we twins from separate mothers? LMBO

 

[Minniechickmama]

We mixed sorghum into ours for a few years too, There was a time it was pushed as more "green yield" per acre. But if you recall it had some problems, if you did not get it up before it froze, suckers grew out the bottom of the stalks that were deadly to animals and the milk was rejected because of some reason or another. I know we only did it a few years. Dad did use if for green chop on feeder wagons for several years and just plowed the remaining under after it froze as a green manure. The advantage over corn for green chop was its ability to come back after being cut. It was more cost effective than pasture and corn.

Do not forget what ducking a manure laden sloppy wet stinging tail does for coordination.

And when you weren't fast enough what it did for you hair and complexion!