Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[okallthis4eggs]

Rumples first real egg.

I can make those blue eggs. It takes 2 cups of scratch
1 cup of mealworms
1/2 loaf of bread
1 can of peas
1 pound of venison

Brown the venison in a skillet. Drain. Tear the bread into small pieces and mix it with the venison. In a large bowl mix the scratch, mealworms and peas together. After the venison has cooled and the bread has soaked up the grease pour it into the bowl with the other ingredients. Serve over top of a half of a watermelon. Bring it here. Separate me from everyone else and get out of the way. Serves 1 Time required: Up to 24 days unless I have laid in the last 48 days

 

[BullChick]

Quote: I believe that!

 

[BullChick]

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With the temps so low (the negative ten crap without the Windchill factor) Should I make the chickens stay inside? I keep the door open because they do come out first thing, but I need to know they can eat snow for water. I give up on getting them to stop dumping water. I give them maybe half a gallon a few times a day, but even that gets spilled most of the time.

 

[Scrambles55]

@okallthis4eggsNow that is funny!

 

[BullChick]

Oh, JC. I know I want one BBW for this year. As for the Heritage I am getting (next year and breeding for the future) there is talk of the Sweetgrass, but that is probably next year. That alone is confusing. All I know is that I said I was flexible, and just hope to get a few Heritage turkeys before March. Getting birds with someone else is a bit confusing to me.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

Quote:
With the temps so low (the negative ten crap without the Windchill factor) Should I make the chickens stay inside? I keep the door open because they do come out first thing, but I need to know they can eat snow for water. I give up on getting them to stop dumping water. I give them maybe half a gallon a few times a day, but even that gets spilled most of the time.
My concern is frostbite on the combs. Already have some on the rooster. And they really don't care to go out when it is that cold. Mine party in the coop on cold days now. "Set the house up with double shots of scratch"...OK. Find a water bucket big enough and heavy enough that they can't turn over. If they can't reach it put something in there for them to stand on so they can. Put a rock in the bottom of it so it is too heavy to tip over. Tie it to the wall somehow. They depend on you and need extra care when it is this cold. Feed them extra too while it is cold. They are easy to make happy with almost any food. Nobody else has to die here. Take care of those girls and they will take care of you. Keep us posted. We miss you when you are gone

 

[okallthis4eggs]

@okallthis4eggs Now that is funny!

No....that's Roger

 

[chickenlindz]

1/2 watermelon, cup of mealworms and 1/2 bag of coleslaw mix.... All gone without a trace except for the watermelon rind. Top that off w 4 trips to swap out waterers and my girls are tucked in for the night...and the next few days.

Hubby can't work in this weather so he'll be on chicken duty tomorrow while I'm gone. I'll probably panic and drive home at lunch for my pm meetings.

When is spring???

 

[cheeka]

JC, I don't eat salt except for the sodium that's already in food... but since I don't eat preprocessed food (except for tater tots once in a while) I tend to run on the low side of the blood pressure spectrum. even when I was a kid, I wouldn't eat food if my mom salted it during cooking. she would get so mad, but my pediatrician told her to stop because table salt wasn't the kind of salt anyone needs... in fact, I'm the only one in my family who is not taking any medication for high blood pressure or high cholesterol...

it's -15 right now. I am feeling so sorry for those roosters with tall combs.

 

[chickenlindz]

@okallthis4eggsNow that is funny!

Go back and read some of the older posts! Rodger is quite the character!