The Old Folks Home

[LFchixranch]

Even the regular cornish and not the cross?

I had the heated mattress pad on last night, it was in the low 50s and rainy. Looks like tomorrow will finally break this wet and cold cycle for us.

Last night I got smart (so I thought) and drilled holes in the dishes in the Have A Heart traps and used wire ties to keep them in place. I was figuring that maybe the rats were reaching through the wire, bringing the dish close to the edge and then eating the food.

This morning I come out and the dishes are still midline, the food is gone and the traps are not sprung.

Now I'm wondering if I need to glue the food to the bowl. Can't catch this amazing Houdini act on the game cam to find out what's going on. I'm also thinking of WD40ing the trap just to make it a bit easier to spring..

Not the regular Cornish, They will be fine but they are very slow growers. Here's one at about 26 weeks. she was laying a small brown egg.



Much smaller than a hatchery BR or RIR of the same age

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yes! They are tiny. And hard to get to feather out. I have some that are still baldish on their backs. The turkeys they were hatched near the same time are bigger than my old hens.

 

[LFchixranch]

SCG-- please find out if you would, if chicken fat can be used in the soap making process. Maybe the focus will be using goats milk . . . . would love to make my own soap for basic uses and give the kids a science lesson at the same time.

I think fat is fat, When you add lye, even to animal fats, there is a chemical reaction that takes place. That chemical reaction changes the molecular structure of the fat and a new substance is produced.... soap. Heres a series of making soap with fat, 487 videos about making soap


http://pageads.googaclk.com/url?sa=...sing.com/search?query=chicken+fat+soap+recipe.

 

[LFchixranch]

finally caught up....

 

[gryeyes]

A gang of chicks (four) got INSIDE the fence around my small raised bed where I was growing peas, carrots and a watermelon vine.

Was.

They couldn't get out by themselves, so they trampled what they didn't eat.

At least I know they aren't starved for greens. Little adorable bastids. :/

 

[ronott1]

A gang of chicks (four) got INSIDE the fence around my small raised bed where I was growing peas, carrots and a watermelon vine.

Was.

They couldn't get out by themselves, so they trampled what they didn't eat.

At least I know they aren't starved for greens. Little adorable bastids.

How nice of you to feed them Greens!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yes, maybe you should plant some basil, onions and garlic and they can self season themselves. My ducks did that last year. I must have planted 100 bulbs of garlic. I've got maybe 15 out there, now.

 

[Cynthia12]

A gang of chicks (four) got INSIDE the fence around my small raised bed where I was growing peas, carrots and a watermelon vine.

Was.

They couldn't get out by themselves, so they trampled what they didn't eat.

At least I know they aren't starved for greens. Little adorable bastids.

Sorry, funny, but not...?

 

[chickadoodles]

Sorry, funny, but not...?

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But I lie SCG's suggestions! Basil, onion, garlic! YUMMY!!!

 

[gryeyes]

A gang of chicks (four) got INSIDE the fence around my small raised bed where I was growing peas, carrots and a watermelon vine. Was. They couldn't get out by themselves, so they trampled what they didn't eat. At least I know they aren't starved for greens. Little adorable bastids. :/

Sorry, funny, but not...?

Yeah, it was funny to me at the same time I was bemoaning the loss of my peas. I am one of those indulgent Flock Mistresses who names (almost) all her birds and talks to 'em like they understand me. I shake my head and smile, then snatch chicks up and drop them on the correct side of the fence material fairly frequently. I don't depend upon my garden for produce - I am not even sure I "do" gardening very well enough to get much yield even if I didn't have chickens. I like tomatoes, I like lemon cucumbers, I would love to have had fresh peas and carrots, but this was the first year I tried to grow those. Watermelons? I was growing them for the flock, anyway... Or would have been, had the vine had a chance to flower, fruit and grow. At least the chicks were destructively adding nutrition to their diets. I'd rather they did that than consume styrofoam.