The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[aoxa]

I am so jealous of this guy's singing talents. He rounds up his chickens by singing.. in seconds. It is amazing!

 

[Bulldogma]

I am so jealous of this guy's singing talents. He rounds up his chickens by singing.. in seconds. It is amazing!

That is too funny!

 

[aoxa]

That is too funny!

and I thought my chick chick chick round up was amazing. I've been kidding myself

 

[delisha]

When my DD was young, we would go to the pig farmers in the area and ask for any piglets they were culling. Runts are usually culled and not fed out. We had goats and milked. We fed out the runts on goats milk to 100 lbs and butchered them out. Talk about the best pork you ever ate. It took a few months to feed out some of them to 60lbs for full roasting size. I loved to dig a big hole(not me personally) and line it with stones, coals and fruit woods. Cover that with grill racks. Wrap the pig in wet burlap and bailing wire. Lower it on the racks. Cover with dirt. Roast all night long..

We usually got one piglet at a time.
A few times we did keep a female and had it bred when DD tried showing pigs.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

I am so jealous of this guy's singing talents. He rounds up his chickens by singing.. in seconds. It is amazing!

I doubt if my neighbors would appreciate my singing in that particular way!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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It ended up raining today off and on. So I only got the legs of the carport cut down to 3' long instead of 6' long. This will help with keeping pen dry and not have to use so much fencing to make secure. Tomorrow is supposed to be dryer, I hope.

 

[moomoodiddy]

I suggest you buddy up with a friend, neighbor, fellow poultry enthusiast. You may find someone close to you that can share incubator space, broody hen space, or something. Good luck.

thanx mumsy i think im just gonna let her set on whatever eggs she wants to even if its just one lol its a silkie if that explains anything .... gotta love em though

 

[moomoodiddy]

1. why would you want to reproduce a chicken that lays one egg every other week? That one egg cost a fortune.
2. If money is an issue(and it should be for everyone)do you think it is fiscally better to get a hen who can feed you breakfast every day or every other day? It cost the same to feed them.
Of  course you can..I blame her often,

lol ikr but shes a silkie if that says anything and she is very sentimental to me and i may have ben exaggerateing when i said everyother week

 

[delisha]

I am watching a special about Green Fire (I wonder if GFF in Florida got the name from this) and the conservation of nature. Aldo Leopold 1887 lived in Baraboo Wisconsin as well as Iowa as a child. Very interesting stuff.

http://www.aldoleopold.org/greenfire/about.shtml

 

[Bulldogma]

I am watching a special about Green Fire (I wonder if GFF in Florida got the name from this) and the conservation of nature. Aldo Leopold 1887 lived in Baraboo Wisconsin as well as Iowa as a child. Very interesting stuff.

http://www.aldoleopold.org/greenfire/about.shtml

I recall that Paul of GF used the following quote on the GF website - so yes, I would say that's the meaning behind the name:

“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949