The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[NagemTX]

The hawks would have a feast if they could pick up cats here. There are dozens of feral cats in my holler. The neighbor feeds them. They are a colony and all intact so they reproduce like rabbits.

I have a kind of a colony. Ten of my own and what ever gets dropped off. The three drop offs right now are two simy feral and one house cat that keeps begging me to come in. All are neutered and spayed except the two simy feral cats.

 

[The Moonshiner]

OK since I've already strained my brain today and should add to it.
Met a friend of my SILs today. He bought a variety of chicks at the local store back on their first chick days. Maybe 6 weeks ago.
Being new and studying the breeds he got of course he's d@mn near a chicken expert now and of course is gonna use these birds to create a breed. Everyone eye roll with me.
Of course I played chicken stupid so to not even get into the conversation. But....... maybe I should make a breed. I've messed with ideas way back but never took them too serious.
Everyone eye roll at me now....
But no don't take me too serious but who knows lol.
What do you all think new chicken owners would want on their must have list if they wanted to get started today with egg layers?

 

[KF0002]

Had to move some chicks out of the building to one of the big outside brooders. Some of the Game chicks had started feather picking so that is why some have blue tails. They aren’t 6 weeks yet so we will watch them like hawks for signs of coccidiosis. I went ahead and moved some Red x Browns out with them. And a few Naked Neckers. lol

 

[KF0002]

The Buff chicks are growing well. Pay no mind to the cobb webs. We haven’t cleaned the brooder building in a long while. I put them in a wire bottomed brooder today. There is also some Games and Red x Browns, as well as a couple turkey poults in with them.

 

[KF0002]

I have a kind of a colony. Ten of my own and what ever gets dropped off. The three drop offs right now are two simy feral and one house cat that keeps begging me to come in. All are neutered and spayed except the two simy feral cats.

That is so sad someone dumped a house cat. People are slime balls. We have two farm cats of our own, and both are spayed. Two out of three of our neighbors' Pyrenees have had litters of pups this year because they refuse to spay their intact females and refuse to keep their dogs at home. So those pups will be terrorizing the neighborhood very soon. Hungry and eating anything they can get a hold of. I worry about our birds when they get old enough to start killing chickens. I would hope our LGDs would keep hungry pups from killing our chickens. But in the back of my mind, I still worry.

 

[Chookwagn]

What do you all think new chicken owners would want on their must have list if they wanted to get started today with egg layers?

Leghorns

 

[The Moonshiner]

The hawks would have a feast if they could pick up cats here. There are dozens of feral cats in my holler. The neighbor feeds them. They are a colony and all intact so they reproduce like rabbits.

I had a neighbor like that. I'm sure he had 50 or more. He'd buy like a huge bag of cat food every so often and just open it and dump it on his shop floor but that must not have been enough because they'd come here to try to eat chickens that free ranged.
My dog at the time took up hunting them for sport so that kept them at bay for a while. Then they found my quail in the barn. I had homemade pens like GQFs where they reach through the front and back to eat and drink. Cats put me out of the quail business in 2 days.
I'm not a cat fan.