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[OneMountainAcres]

I thought everyone would like to see the new tank that we picked up yesterday for hubby's piranhas. The best thing is, the lady didn't want it anymore, and gladly gave it up for some chicks in the spring. Perfect kind of trade

We're also doing an experiment this year. We've been researching a lot into hydroponics and decided to dig up one of our pepper plants and one of our tomatoes to try to keep going over the winter with the hydroponic system. For the first week or so, they looked really sad and wilted but they've perked back up and have some awesome new growth on them I'm really excited that we may have fresh tomatoes and peppers in December lol

 

[emorems0]

I don't do meat birds, but have you looked at Freedom Rangers from the hatchery of the same name in Lancaster Co, or Moyers in Quakertown?
Moyers sells a variety of meat birds, and quite a lot I believe.

As for silkie roos over RIR, i think the chicks will be sexlinked, with the females having dark skin and male yellow skinned. The silkie feathering is a simple autosomal (non-sexlinked) recessive, so none of the babies will be silkied, but they will all carry that gene, so a future cross for the daughters back to their father will produce roughly 50% silkied babies.

Thanks Dennis... I have a plan in the works to hopefully breed my own mix for meat birds (my Delaware roo over my dark Cornish hens). In the mean time, we were hoping to run one more group of quick growers so we can get them processed before winter really kicks in.

 

[BullChick]

A friend got 3 chicks from me last spring, a Welbar, an Olive Egger, and a Blue Egg Black Sexlink (in order).
Apparently, they want "the help" to speed it up a little . . .

I thought everyone would like to see the new tank that we picked up yesterday for hubby's piranhas. The best thing is, the lady didn't want it anymore, and gladly gave it up for some chicks in the spring. Perfect kind of trade

We're also doing an experiment this year. We've been researching a lot into hydroponics and decided to dig up one of our pepper plants and one of our tomatoes to try to keep going over the winter with the hydroponic system. For the first week or so, they looked really sad and wilted but they've perked back up and have some awesome new growth on them

I'm really excited that we may have fresh tomatoes and peppers in December lol

Awesome!

 

[BullChick]

@LittleMissPurdy get your tush back here!

 

[emorems0]

(I'm imagining you learning that lesson)

You are not the only one imagining that! LOL

I thought everyone would like to see the new tank that we picked up yesterday for hubby's piranhas. The best thing is, the lady didn't want it anymore, and gladly gave it up for some chicks in the spring. Perfect kind of trade

We're also doing an experiment this year. We've been researching a lot into hydroponics and decided to dig up one of our pepper plants and one of our tomatoes to try to keep going over the winter with the hydroponic system. For the first week or so, they looked really sad and wilted but they've perked back up and have some awesome new growth on them

I'm really excited that we may have fresh tomatoes and peppers in December lol

Awesome trade! Let us know how your plants produce during the winter... I've been wanting to get my feet (er... roots) wet with hydroponics or aquaponics but I always seem to have too many other projects going on. Have you considered running the fish tank water through your plants a la aquaponics? I think that is our eventual end goal.

Myers has lots of meaties. They even do capon for you.

Thanks! I think that is who I've decided to go with

 

[stake]

Chester county

Howdy from Malvern....what you got and what are you looking for??? end of season approaches.....

 

[OneMountainAcres]

You are not the only one imagining that! LOL

Awesome trade! Let us know how your plants produce during the winter... I've been wanting to get my feet (er... roots) wet with hydroponics or aquaponics but I always seem to have too many other projects going on. Have you considered running the fish tank water through your plants a la aquaponics? I think that is our eventual end goal.

Thanks! I think that is who I've decided to go with

We would like to do an aquaponics setup also eventually. Right now, finding space to do it is an issue though we did try to come up with a few designs using big trash cans and a large buckt. We actualy saw a really neat filter system at petco the other day, designed for aquaponics. You just throw it in your fish tank and plant the plant in the back of it. We're thinking of getting one for each of the kids first for their tanks to see how well they work.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

You are not the only one imagining that! LOL

Awesome trade! Let us know how your plants produce during the winter... I've been wanting to get my feet (er... roots) wet with hydroponics or aquaponics but I always seem to have too many other projects going on. Have you considered running the fish tank water through your plants a la aquaponics? I think that is our eventual end goal.

Thanks! I think that is who I've decided to go with

We would like to do an aquaponics setup also eventually. Right now, finding space to do it is an issue though we did try to come up with a few designs using big trash cans and a large buckt. We actualy saw a really neat filter system at petco the other day, designed for aquaponics. You just throw it in your fish tank and plant the plant in the back of it. We're thinking of getting one for each of the kids first for their tanks to see how well they work.

The closest thing I've done to hydroponics is my aero garden that I found a the thrift store. I also found another one in someone's trash! Now I will have lots of room for them.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

I'm reposting this question because I think it got overlooked.

So Rusty Shackleford seems to be such a sweety so far. I've never had a Roo for long before. Do they show more attitude after they sexually mature? Or if he's calm now, will he stay that way? He seems to follow me around a bit and is pretty quiet. Today, when I picked him up to go to bed, thankfully my husband was watching. I told him Rusty was a very nice boy. When I picked him up, he didn't run, fight, or make a peep. Hubby was impressed. One step closer to keeping him! (The rooster that is, my husband is definitely staying. lol.png ).

 

[Chaos18]

I'm reposting this question because I think it got overlooked.

So Rusty Shackleford seems to be such a sweety so far. I've never had a Roo for long before. Do they show more attitude after they sexually mature? Or if he's calm now, will he stay that way? He seems to follow me around a bit and is pretty quiet. Today, when I picked him up to go to bed, thankfully my husband was watching. I told him Rusty was a very nice boy. When I picked him up, he didn't run, fight, or make a peep. Hubby was impressed. One step closer to keeping him! (The rooster that is, my husband is definitely staying. lol.png ).

Can be very breed and bird dependent. I've had some boys that started out nice and then went off the deep end. My current group of boys started out nice and have stayed nice. Hopefully they all stay nice in the spring as well when the hormones are raging.