OMG all these beautiful birds! I really want some mottled, whites, blacks, and blues....really I just love them all! I really want to get some in February or March...what is a good way to get good birds?
I used to be on this board a long time ago and was thrilled to see it is still here! Now that the kids
will be entering college and I am staying home and not working I am excited to get back into my chickens!
I really want to focus on some nice cochins and will have some other laying hens....I...
WOW! Great first hatch and how lucky for you LOL! I love your barred one you are working on. I have a barred EE that lays te prettiest blue egg and she is a really nice bird. I hope to get some of her chicks this spring but mine is paired with a barred rock roo....
I agree with you and I teach my kids it is all farm life and "what ever happens happens for a reason" not that I am happy always like this past week when my faorite frizzle roo fell into the duck tank and drown.....
Anyway I LOVE YOUR BIRDS and all your animals and enjoyed the tour it was...
you always dd a squirt of food coloring in her vent. I have never don't this but know people who have. Then they know which hen lays which egg...
Three eggs a day that is really a lot for such a little body...
I LOVE CONTROLLERS TOO!!!!
I hear ya years ago when he first got started they had to have so many familiarization flights a year but you know how that goes the gov ended that. And I hate to tell ya but they are so short staffed and expected to do so many things they don't want to, to ya'll that...
Here in Nort Texas 60# sq in field $4-5 and $35-40 good horse quality coastal. Last year due to rain it was rotting in thefield and theyear befor in our drought Sq $15 and $125 for rounds. I am glad that is over for now.....
And Farmgirl I agree with the slaughter. We live close to a horse...
Good for you NCM! Now the journey begins, you will have your ups and downs and it can be rewarding or heartbreaking... I don't know much about ponies but I will post a pic of a quarter horse we rescued in March. Having never done anything like this I dove in with both feet, spoke with a friend...
barnyard I have a hen that looks almost exactly like yours. She has a little smaller comb and she is a little larger but they look alot alike. I wish I could get a picture of her, she was roosting in the tree when we moved here two years ago and is still not real friendly....and mine lays daily...
Got the silkie eggs only one broken, Thanks....
Now, I don't know what it is with me and Silkie eggs, all I have to do is order hatching eggs and it will turn cold, very cold....
He is great! Just saw him at the stock show. I love RFD!...I would love to go to one of his seminars I have a fe friends who have and thought they were great but it is just too much for me....
I got a LGD not far from you then a few months a go...
I am South of Ft. Worth and waiting................I keep checking the map it looks like it is headed our way, but why the day before TAKS testing.....