The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[ssterling1776]

we have 30 acres and my parents are my neighbors with 7. More room here.....

Oh... so we're going to start our own commune? Well if that's the case. I really don't want to move again, so I propose everyone move to southern VA where it doesn't get so stinkin' cold!! If we try really hard, I'm sure we could all fit on these here 300 acres. LOL! No - it's not mine... totally wish it were!!! We've been so amazingly lucky to be allowed to rent the white farmhouse on the property for a price that would make your eyes pop out of your head... because its in the middle of "Nowhere."

I am going to check the eggs later today..since I had a hatch out sometime in the wee hours this morning...I assume I can hatch out more. One is simply not enough. I will not accept one hrir. Even just three sucks. So I had better get at least two more today darn it. I sure can tell the difference in color between herotage and my strain, of course mine are also crossed with cornish so they are almost double size.

If you have an awesome old person name, please do share. My silkies do get named. They are productive for a long time, and I'd never eat one.

Milton, Etzel, Jeb, Leonard, Albert, Earl, Herbert, Alfred, Elmer, Herman, Leroy, Stanley, Lester, Edwin, Chester, Norman, Melvin, Virgil, Horace...

It is so cold out today, I want to just go back to sleep and pull the covers over my head. The thought of cleaning horse stalls is making me shiver! MB

Awww... sending warm thoughts!

Beautiful property! I would live in the middle of nowhere for that view! Ahhhh, if only! As for old names, my grandmothers are Alice & Thelma

 

[delisha]

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41 is cold???????????/
that is perfect chicken weather!! They are so comfortable in that weather. me too. You can do chores in a T-Shirt.

 

[delisha]

Ferdanan, edwina, Louise, Fred, Joseph, Ronald, I am to tired to think of anymore..I need a nap..

 

[ssterling1776]

It is so cold out today, I want to just go back to sleep and pull the covers over my head.   The thought of cleaning horse stalls is making me shiver!



urrrrrggggghhhhh.....


MB

I know the feeling! It's 41* here in Texas, I'm freezing too

41 is cold???????????/
that is perfect chicken weather!! They are so comfortable in that weather. me too. You can do chores in a T-Shirt.

It's not the temps in the south that get you...it's a combination of the temp & humidity! Chill you to the bone in the winter & make you sweat buckets in the summer!

 

[aoxa]

I am glad i am not the only one who does not name chickens. Here chick chick is as far as I go lately. The last bird that was named was blackfoot, and the DH named him so I would not eat him.

. I am still going to eat him if I get a male HRIR out of this hatching. I have two more pips. I egg topsied the blue egg. It was filled with liquid. Poor fella drowned. My humidity must have been to high for that egg. I am praying that at least the two that have externally piped are going to hatch. They are 4 days over due...that has to be some kind of record.

If you have internal pips now, this late. Your humidity was too high for all of them. The air cells must be really tiny. I like my air cells quite large on day 18. I don't add any water at all until then.

Sorry to hear about your hatch rate..

 

[aoxa]

It's not the temps in the south that get you...it's a combination of the temp & humidity! Chill you to the bone in the winter & make you sweat buckets in the summer!

Our relative humidity here is terrible. 80% in the winter is normal. It was 100% humidity last weekend when we were processing.

 

[hotrodflash]

My grandmother's names were Syble and Vicey Juanita, my grandfather called her "Vice". Other family names are Earl, Carlene, Bernice and Jim Edd. Can you tell I am from the south? LOL.

 

[ssterling1776]

It's not the temps in the south that get you...it's a combination of the temp

Our relative humidity here is terrible. 80% in the winter is normal. It was 100% humidity last weekend when we were processing.

Yeah, being close the water doesn't help! I don't think I could take your winters! Negative temps, snow, high humidity...no thank you.

 

[camilleathome]

Last year was amazing. Where you here last March when it was 86F (30C) one day? I was sweating! In March!

lol we havent had a true canadian winter in a few years they were pretty mild.

 

[aoxa]

lol we havent had a true canadian winter in a few years they were pretty mild.

For temps I agree. Winter of 2010-2011 was terrible for snow. It was wet too. Worst winter I ever recall for snow.