The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Bulldogma]

That is going to be really educational. I sure hope people keep mouths shut at the school and let people who want to learn..learn

That Heritage RIR is sooooo tiny compared to my cows

Awww... Glad you had more hatch, though!

BDM~how did you get the Natural site to start a mobile version? I'm really trying to get used to it, but it's quite a bit different than the desktop version. It's been about a week? Maybe little more.

Um... what browser are you using? If you are on a desktop, you should have a desktop view and the mobile view should only be there if you're on a mobile device. If you're getting the mobile view on your desktop, I wonder if you clicked something by accident?

Is anyone else having issues?

 

[Ashdoes]

BDM~how did you get the Natural site to start a mobile version? I'm really trying to get used to it, but it's quite a bit different than the desktop version. It's been about a week? Maybe little more.

Um... what browser are you using? If you are on a desktop, you should have a desktop view and the mobile view should only be there if you're on a mobile device. If you're getting the mobile view on your desktop, I wonder if you clicked something by accident?

Is anyone else having issues?

I should have specified, I am on the iPad.
The mobile version, even on the iPad, is a bit odd. Took me a bit to find the buttons to navigate away from the home page.

 

[Bulldogma]

I should have specified, I am on the iPad.
The mobile version, even on the iPad, is a bit odd. Took me a bit to find the buttons to navigate away from the home page.

Oh, I see! LOL - I was worried the blog was broken!

 

[aoxa]

Laced! OMG. I'm losing it!

So glad you said polish and not Wyandotte. Just do not like the Wyandotte. Never had one that was hardy. Had to cull all of them. Plus their personalities were just not cutting it.

My polishes have been remarkably healthy, but are just plain dumb when it comes to anything else. I find them endearing and the most hilarious chicken I've ever seen. I have 3 now.

WooHoo!

x2! I really need some of this nustock.

 

[CESpeed]

The extremely inconsiderate owner of the property I was going to buy has bailed on me so I'm back to the "house hunt" drawing board!

I am not letting it bother me because I figure God has sometthing better for me.

Today I found the most perfect house except for one tiny little thing....there's no yard!!!

In this wonderful 100 year old house though are two really large upstairs rooms that get LOTS of light! Would it be considered cheating (no longer natural) to create a coop area in one of the rooms (complete with lots of real) grass in lots of trays all over the room? I really really want my chickens but this house is amazing! And quite a bargain, too. If I had lots of natural light and carpeted the room with grass, would they be happy?

 

[delisha]

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All the eggs I hatched out from one of my hens. (this is the first time I have hatched her eggs) Her mom was the hen I recently retired to freezer camp.

I have two of her daughters(the old hen) and they are both great egg layers. I decided to hatch from one of them to see if i like the chicks. They are from my old original flock, so they are all mutts. RIR, Cornish, NH mix, Rocks. I sort of made my own breed through the years. They are meaty, good foragers, and great mothers. They just all look different. I like the fact they weight about 6lbs processed. Tons of breast meat, Yet they have the flavor profile of a yard bird. They have better texture than Cornish Crosses, but not as fibrous as a yard bird. The cockerel is a silver pencil rock mix, pretty bird and l want to weigh him, he has got to be over 10 lbs and still a cockerel. We will see how these young ones turn out. I will keep a few pullets, eat the rest and see if I want to keep her eggs for hatch again. She is young and I am not sure if she will be a broody hen or not. She did not go broody last year at all. That is OK with me. Nothing like having 10 hens stop laying because they want to raise a bunch of chicks. Her grandmother was broody, but her mom only raised one batch a year, and I think she really was not keen about it. She protected them well and hatched them well, but she sure got rid of them fast. That is OK too.


All of my HRIR shipped eggs that went into lock down have exterior piped. I am a wreck. I need sleep. But i guess I have one more night of no sleep..commom chickies!!

All my eggs from my hen have hatched that are going to hatch. II just want to be done. These chicks are eating that FF like it is pure honey. I have one pasty butt..wierd

 

[delisha]

The extremely inconsiderate owner of the property I was going to buy has bailed on me so I'm back to the "house hunt" drawing board!

I am not letting it bother me because I figure God has sometthing better for me.

Today I found the most perfect house except for one tiny little thing....there's no yard!!!

In this wonderful 100 year old house though are two really large upstairs rooms that get LOTS of light! Would it be considered cheating (no longer natural) to create a coop area in one of the rooms (complete with lots of real) grass in lots of trays all over the room? I really really want my chickens but this house is amazing! And quite a bargain, too. If I had lots of natural light and carpeted the room with grass, would they be happy?

No. You are assigning human emotions to a chicken. Chickens need water, food, air, sun.exercise.

Chickens need very little, however be honest, you are only thinking of your needs. Nothing wrong with that. But this might be the wrong thread. I am going to be blunt so you need to stop reading if you are sensitive. I do not mean to hurt feeling, I mean to educate not only you, but others.

People have been sticking billions of chickens in building for years and years. Some put them in tiny cages, some put them in bigger cages. And the chickens do what chickens do. They cluck, they breed, and lay eggs. Putting grass in a room does not change where they are. They are still locked in a building. NOTHING wrong with that. It is simply not natural chicken keeping.

If you put those chickens in that house, it will not be a nice house for long. Chickens have so much dust it gets into every thing. You put grass in your house, on a second floor and you will have mold, bugs, and who knows what damage.

You are not thinking this through at all.

 

[aoxa]

All the eggs I hatched out from one of my hens. (this is the first time I have hatched her eggs) Her mom was the hen I recently retired to freezer camp.

I have two of her daughter and they are both great egg layers. They are from my original flock, so they are all mutts. RIR, Cornish, NH mix. I sort of made my own breed. They are meaty, good foragers, and great mothers. I like the fact they weight about 6lbs processed. Tons of breast meat, Yet they have the flavor profile of a yard bird. They have better texture than Cornish Crosses, but not as fibrous as a yard bird. The cockerel is a silver pencil rock mix, pretty bird and l want to weigh him, he has got to be over 10 lbs and still a cockerel.


All of my shipped eggs that went into lock down have exterior piped. I am a wreck. I need sleep. All my eggs have hatched that are going to hatch. I just want to be done. These chicks are eating that FF like it is pure honey. I have one pasty butt..wierd

Wait so how many have not hatched? Your last part was confusing

I get pasty butt still in the first couple days. Until the FF gets into their systems. I used to have terrible issues with the paste. Not anymore!

 

[aoxa]

The extremely inconsiderate owner of the property I was going to buy has bailed on me so I'm back to the "house hunt" drawing board!

I am not letting it bother me because I figure God has sometthing better for me.

Today I found the most perfect house except for one tiny little thing....there's no yard!!!

In this wonderful 100 year old house though are two really large upstairs rooms that get LOTS of light! Would it be considered cheating (no longer natural) to create a coop area in one of the rooms (complete with lots of real) grass in lots of trays all over the room? I really really want my chickens but this house is amazing! And quite a bargain, too. If I had lots of natural light and carpeted the room with grass, would they be happy?

You're going to need a yard if you want chickens!

 

[delisha]

Hi guys, just dropping in so I can find you guys easily ~Naomi

How ya doing?