New "chikkin tender" in the dooryard

[Ed Becka]

We are in the South Texas Coastal Brush Country. I have raised "egg chickens" before on a very small scale, but since moving into a more rural area we decided to go at it. Our first batch is a couple years old and were heavily attritted by a racoon until I ambushed it one night. This past spring we invested in twenty-odd pullets (two have turned out to be cockerels so far) and they are now teenagers and laying fairy and pullet eggs. The planters that I raised chilis in last year have been taken over by wild purslane, and besides putting a bit of it in my smoothies, I've been feeding it out as a treat. The girls all love it, so I was wondering about the "actual factual" of oxalate affecting my birds' eggshells, and I joined BYC.

 

[muddy75]

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

Welcome!

 

[BoundlessLove]

Hi and Welcome!
Glad to have you here at Backyard Chickens!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[GreenJay]

Howdy from south Texas!
South Texas coastal brush country, sounds like we're neighbors

 

[GodLovesU]

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