Texas

[Cockle-Dood]

I agree with Texas Lisa, she looks like an Elvira. Hehehe now I want to watch that movie. The pic is adorable. I love it when my babies do that. I hope my younger chicks pick up the habit. It is fun to clean the coops with a chicken sleeping on your shoulder.
I am about to head out for my morning romp with the chickens and ducks

Then I get to start baking some bread for some friends this weekend. I have some orders to fill LOL. If I had the means I have toyed with the idea for a bakery. A friend of mine is a genius with pastries and he can make some killer cakes and cheesecakes. yummy

My DW has a degree in Pastries....but only uses it as a hobby. said she didnt wanna get burned out on doing something like that all day every day, so now we just get some AWESOME deserts and stuff for family get-togethers/bdays and what not!

 

[jnntefend]

wake up everyone! whats everyone's plans for today?!

Watching cornish crosses grow larger before my eyes? These things are weeds!

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Watching cornish crosses grow larger before my eyes? These things are weeds!

I thought about getting some cornish chickens for meat. How old/big are they?

 

[jnntefend]

Is it possible to free range in the daylight in Texas? Or, well, what percentage of your flock should you expect to lose if you do?

 

[StelleKitten]

Get 1 dress cut out and pinned together to sew it tomorrow. Get another pattern to make the other dress. Get the pair of pants taken apart to use as a pattern. Make the pants pattern larger for the other person who needs it. Feed the week old chicks and turkey poults, feed the 2 week old chicks, feed the month old chicks and then feed my grown birds. Feed that cats. Water everybody. Locate my laundry (the wind snatched it off the line and it is scattered all over the place). Start seedlings for watermelon, cantaloupe, and cucumber. Call about the missing dirt (two truckloads were supposed to be here a week ago, where the heck did my dirt go!?). Clean the house (how does it keep getting dirty) Change out the bedding in both the coop and the brooders. Tend to the eggs in my homemade incubator. Hope I'm doing it right. Locate a new hygrometer because I think mine died. It's reading 40% humidity but I have condensation on the lid of the incubator.

Oh, and get dressed and have a cup of coffee... Still sitting in bed because I just haven't been ready to start my day. The cats are griping (sitting on my window unit and peeking at me through the window). But I know the chicks are okay because I checked their food and water levels this morning when I sent my dh to work. Just feeling particularly lazy this morning.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Get 1 dress cut out and pinned together to sew it tomorrow. Get another pattern to make the other dress. Get the pair of pants taken apart to use as a pattern. Make the pants pattern larger for the other person who needs it. Feed the week old chicks and turkey poults, feed the 2 week old chicks, feed the month old chicks and then feed my grown birds. Feed that cats. Water everybody. Locate my laundry (the wind snatched it off the line and it is scattered all over the place). Start seedlings for watermelon, cantaloupe, and cucumber. Call about the missing dirt (two truckloads were supposed to be here a week ago, where the heck did my dirt go!?). Clean the house (how does it keep getting dirty) Change out the bedding in both the coop and the brooders. Tend to the eggs in my homemade incubator. Hope I'm doing it right. Locate a new hygrometer because I think mine died. It's reading 40% humidity but I have condensation on the lid of the incubator.

Oh, and get dressed and have a cup of coffee... Still sitting in bed because I just haven't been ready to start my day. The cats are griping (sitting on my window unit and peeking at me through the window). But I know the chicks are okay because I checked their food and water levels this morning when I sent my dh to work. Just feeling particularly lazy this morning.

i swear, you must have more hours in your day than i have in mine....

 

[StelleKitten]

i swear, you must have more hours in your day than i have in mine....

I don't but I think I can squeeze most of that into my day. Besides, Some of those items take less than a minute to complete. I was just sharing my to do list for today. I make one like that everyday or I can't seem to get anything done. It is soooo satisfying to have my page full of things to do, and at bedtime look over it and see that I finished my list. Each little mark out makes me feel good. I blame it on my mother for raising us with lists. We would each get a list every morning and by the end of the day we had to have that list done. Even the kids who couldn't read got one. They got pictures, a drawing of their bed made (nothing fancy just something quick), the dogs bowls drawn with food in them. stuff like that.

ETA Just discovered that while I was visiting my sister she snuck some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies into my purse! Diet saboteur! Ah, well they shall taste good with my coffee!

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Is it possible to free range in the daylight in Texas? Or, well, what percentage of your flock should you expect to lose if you do?

I think it really depends on the population of predators in the area. My chickens are in a yard with no top, and so far in the past few months, I haven't had any attacks that I know of, then again I have dokeys and a dog surrounding half of my chicken pen.

 

[StelleKitten]

I think it really depends on the population of predators in the area. My chickens are in a yard with no top, and so far in the past few months, I haven't had any attacks that I know of, then again I have dokeys and a dog surrounding half of my chicken pen.

I couldn't find the original post this one went to. So here goes. I have my flock free range in my yard. My landlord has chicken alcatraz. I haven't lost one bird (yet, knock on wood) yet they still lose birds about once a month. It really depends on your surrounding area. They live down the hill from me and have woods right up to their back door and a small stream runs through that woods. I have woods all around my fence (mostly cedar up where I live, various stuff where my landlord lives). I have four cats, one of them is a giant tom that sleeps with my chickens. They have 2 yorkshire terriers. My cats protect the chickens better than their dogs, I think. That is all we can come up with at any rate.

 

[yinepu]

Is it possible to free range in the daylight in Texas? Or, well, what percentage of your flock should you expect to lose if you do?

99% if you have brazen foxes and coyotes


seriously


a few years ago that's exactly what we had... now we have coops and secure pens.. and several livestock guardian dogs