The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Bulldogma]

To add: As for BYC's policies. They do have rights on your image if posted on BYC, this lets them spread information/pics, etc to the community in a positive way. Hence why it's good to watermark images & show only lower resolution.

The image is watermarked, but frankly I feel that it is a compliment they used my image. It would have been nice if they had let me know, but I saw it anyway.

Moving on...

yeah, I'm not sure why the sfh chicks are so frail.

One thing to remember is that the breed fist came to the US 3 years ago. The soil, plants and insects are different there and therefore we have to assume that it will take a few generations for the breed to adjust to a different nutritional balance. This is common with newly imported breeds. Delisha has imported Orpingtons and has noted similar issues.

 

[Bulldogma]

Oh - new thing in that place... the one mentioned subtly in my signature...

 

[stonykill]

Stony, are these all Sumatras? Just love the little fuzzy butts!!

yes Blues and Blacks

 

[Mumsy]

Friends and family often ask me what could possibly grow so far North where it seems to rain all the time? Pretty much any thing is what I tell them. My potager garden is bursting at the seams with Cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, beets, leeks, cukes, squash, pumpkins, raspberry row, strawberry beds, and corn. That's just what's growing in this half and it's only the first week in June! I'm putting the HRIR flock out here this Fall. That hoop hot house will keep them dry and cozy once I cover it with a heavy duty tarp.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Wow - beautiful, Mumsy

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Wow - beautiful, Mumsy

Yeah, x2!

 

[Bulldogma]

Wow - beautiful, Mumsy

X's 3!

 

[BlueMouse]

Holy cow Mumsy! Your potager garden puts my struggling beds of seedlings to shame! We just past our last frost date, next year I'm taking a leaf out of your book and putting some kind of floating row cover over my beds to get things started earlier!

 

[midnightroo]

Yes Mumsy, your garden is beautiful! I am so envious! Strawberries and lettuce is mostly what I am getting right now.

 

[bluebirdnanny]

Oh - new thing in that place... the one mentioned subtly in my signature...

subtly?

If it wasn't for IT I wouldn't have been HERE.

X's 3!

x's 4!