The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[jlynnet]

Del, you crack me up! You're like the Wikipedia of natural grains! Love it.,

 

[jlynnet]

Mumsy those chicks are so cute!

 

[Sally8]

Rosie is growing fast

Whew! My head is spinning! I was so behind reading and there was so much information to sort through. aoxa - Where did I miss us getting a new puppy? Very cute! So sorry to read about your loss and Congrats on the wedding. (Is it proper to say all that in one sentence?) As always everyone, thanks for sharing pictures. I always enjoy them whether I comment or not. 40 degrees here tonight. I built another woodstove fire before bedtime. Arthritis doesn't like waking up in a cold damp house. I miss my turkeys but love not having to step over their large poop on the deck. The chickens are contented with not having to run from the large birds. It looks like I'll have a couple new chicks soon. Not sure what they'll be as "mom" is a Silkie mix and "dad" must have been a traveling salesman as I'm not quite sure what's been going on when I'm working. I thought the eggs were duds but 3 had chicks in them. Have a great week end.

 

[rowerjen]

Grow Alabama

Alabama's organically-grown vegetables, herbs and fruit

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Jerry will point you in the right direction..

Okay, how about a source in New Hampshire (or Vermont - I'm right on the border)?

 

[dutchbunny83]

http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/organic-and-non-gmo-feed-and-hay-sources-for-the-carolinas/

Olde Carthage Farm
2270 US-Highway 15-501 Carthage, NC 28327
[email protected]
919-770-5190
Facebook: OldeCarthageFarm

The Herb Shop

3330 Boone Trl, Fayetteville, NC 28306

They sell fresh herbs


THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[aoxa]

Whew! My head is spinning! I was so behind reading and there was so much information to sort through.

aoxa - Where did I miss us getting a new puppy? Very cute! So sorry to read about your loss and Congrats on the wedding. (Is it proper to say all that in one sentence?)

As always everyone, thanks for sharing pictures. I always enjoy them whether I comment or not. 40 degrees here tonight. I built another woodstove fire before bedtime. Arthritis doesn't like waking up in a cold damp house.

I miss my turkeys but love not having to step over their large poop on the deck. The chickens are contented with not having to run from the large birds. It looks like I'll have a couple new chicks soon. Not sure what they'll be as "mom" is a Silkie mix and "dad" must have been a traveling salesman as I'm not quite sure what's been going on when I'm working. I thought the eggs were duds but 3 had chicks in them.

Have a great week end.

I didn't get a puppy. Chloe my miniature poodle has a litter of seven. I am keeping one of them Rosie.

Susan actually told me the day before Koda passed, at our Wedding Shower. She knows how much I love small dogs - because you can snuggle them easily without being smothered or covered in drool (Henry).

 

[delisha]

Quote: F.W. Cobs Company Inc.
P.O. Box 30
St. Albans Bay, VT 05481
Phone: 888-531-4888
Fax: 866-738-9883
[email protected]
www.fwcobs.com
Contact: Shaun Brooks
Products: Organic and non-GMO feed products, including alfalfa pellets, barley, corn, canola meal, durum, flax, lentils, oats, rye, soybeans, soybean meal, wheat. Locations include Loreburn, SK; Grove City, MN; Council Bluffs, IA; Saint Albans, VT; Roseville, CA

MegaFood
8 Bowers Rd.
Derry, NH 03038
Phone: 800-848-2542
Fax:
[email protected]
megafood.com
Contact: Bethany Davis
Products: Non-GMO whole food dietary supplements, fresh from farm To tablet

 

[Leahs Mom]

I have coop news! My husband started my second chick house today! It will be unlike most chick houses most people imagine. This will be used mainly for Silkies.

I am a model builder and specialize in 1:25 scale. This little tudor building I built two years ago is the inspiration for the new chick house. Lot's of ideas floating in my head for it.

Exciting!! And way cute!

I won't sell chicks because I'm trying to build my stock up into superior flocks. This is my first year with these strains. (HRIR and top tier Silkies) I will keep all chicks for evaluation before letting any go. When I sell eggs, it will be from my top breeding pens. It's the reason I'm hatching everything I can as soon as I can. I need to know which are my top type and SOP birds and how they reproduce before I offer them to the public.

Ah Ha...I knew there had to be a reason for that. Helps me think things through if I ever decide to sell birds in the future.

 

[aoxa]

F.W. Cobs Company Inc.
P.O. Box 30
St. Albans Bay, VT 05481
Phone: 888-531-4888
Fax: 866-738-9883
[email protected]
www.fwcobs.com
Contact: Shaun Brooks
Products: Organic and non-GMO feed products, including alfalfa pellets, barley, corn, canola meal, durum, flax, lentils, oats, rye, soybeans, soybean meal, wheat. Locations include Loreburn, SK; Grove City, MN; Council Bluffs, IA; Saint Albans, VT; Roseville, CA

MegaFood
8 Bowers Rd.
Derry, NH 03038
Phone: 800-848-2542
Fax:
[email protected]
megafood.com
Contact: Bethany Davis
Products: Non-GMO whole food dietary supplements, fresh from farm To tablet

My turn, New Brunswick or Nova Scotia Canada.

Since you are the fountain of information.

 

[aaggjg]

OMG!!! I think it's finally going to work!!! I've been trying for days to get these pictures to upload .... Anyways this is my silkie Spook. She has always been a very reserved bird. Her idea of free ranging was to walk up the hill and stand under a bush and pose... She is so perfect she almost looks fake. Well I don't know what happened but all of a sudden she is a forager!!! She figured out that she can squeeze under this pallet in the yard and dig goodies that the big girls can't reach. This is her new and improved daily look!! I think her pouf was so big she couldn't see a thing... Now with it yet a dirty.... Look out she's a terror!!!

This is what she used to look like .... But as you can see she was just starting to get dirty.