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Post by flowerpower on May 27, 2008 4:27:46 GMT -5
I only have 2 adult hens right now, so I have been letting them into the veggie garden. I think they eat more worms than any "bad" bugs. Yes, my girls love to help me in the garden too. lol
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Post by flowerpower on Jun 18, 2008 21:45:55 GMT -5
Here are my chicks today. Just a temporary set up til Friday, then they are in the barn. lol  |
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 11, 2008 20:16:00 GMT -5
Hey Alan, I let my mixed chickens out this afternoon, caught them eating the aronia berries and had to chase them off before they ate them all.
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Post by Alan on Jul 26, 2008 22:15:52 GMT -5
LOL, damn chickens!
After unfortunately loosing the Rhode Island Reds I got from you to a dog attack last week I manged to get some mixed types from my old Animal Science teacher, their all ages, some from spring hatching, some from last year, and a few chicks with mothers. There are about eight Americaunaus, some mixed Banty types, some larger ones I can't yet identify, and a smaller black type I can't identify, they've laid a few eggs and made a ton of "fertilizer' already, so I guess I can't complain, the mother is really good with the chicks which the guy said they would be. Evidently this breed lays for a year and then becomes pretty "Broody" which is ok by me, always a fresh supply of chicks and I can always let the older non producers out to do their own thing I suppose.
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Post by flowerpower on Jul 27, 2008 5:26:23 GMT -5
Get some pics of the birds & we'll try figuring out what breeds they are.
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Post by Alan on Jul 30, 2008 11:28:56 GMT -5
Will do ASAP Flowerpower.
I finally got some eggs yesterday! I know I'm a dork, but I'm really excited about the fact that our farm now has chickens and farm fresh eggs!
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 30, 2008 17:13:04 GMT -5
Yep, those first few eggs seem like magic. Then you have more eggs than you know what to do with.
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Post by flowerpower on Jul 30, 2008 21:33:19 GMT -5
We are 2 people with 17 hens. lol Think I will have extra eggs?
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Sept 23, 2008 22:15:48 GMT -5
Update on my chickens: One tried to kill me tonight.
I had let them out, and it was time to go back in for the night.
This one rooster (well two actually) would just NOT go back in the shed. I ended up chasing one through the woods, over the river, through the woods....not quite to grandmas house, but nearly. Never did catch it. We did get one of them though. Oh, and I hadn't ran that hard in a long time, so I feel like crap tonight.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 23, 2008 22:41:29 GMT -5
Well, friend, a lot of chicks made me run like that in my younger days  But that's not what you meant I suppose...  |
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Post by plantsnobin on Sept 24, 2008 9:15:53 GMT -5
Yep, that's a rooster for you. You feed them, keep them warm, build a cozy house for them, and then one day they turn on you. Kind of feels like a personal insult. You can't believe that such a cute little fuzzy ball would grow up to act like this.
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Oct 13, 2008 16:16:52 GMT -5
My wife told me that if I couldn't catch it I could shoot it and we'd just eat it for dinner. And I caught her reading a cookbook the other night. I might just make a country mouse out of my city mouse yet.  |
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 29, 2008 6:31:33 GMT -5
I was collecting eggs yesterday and found the oddest thing. All the eggs should be brown. But one of the Wyandotte eggs was white. Not a pale pink, very white.They've been laying for about a month and I never got a white one before. Anyone know what might cause this? Or is it something that just "happens" once in a while?
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Nov 29, 2008 8:19:29 GMT -5
Maybe she's Anemic? Feed them Steak and Spinach more often ;D FP, it's probably just a burp in the scheme of things. I wouldn't concern yourself unless her shell quality declines rapidly ad the colour stays the same. Even within flocks or sisters there are variations in colour and shape. I had two Australorps from the same 25 year breeding program whose eggs I could tell apart. One laid the regular ovoid of dark brown. Her sister laid torpedo eggs (edible but very rarely fertile for hatching) and with speckled shells. There was little or no outside influence in the breeding program, so it wasn't the Mail Rooster's fault  |
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 30, 2008 5:53:53 GMT -5
K, I just thought it was odd. lol Other that the shell color, the egg was perfect. (naturally)
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