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Let your kids or the neighbour kids name them. We have: Buff and Buff Mountain ( buff orps), Specky and Becky (speckled Sussex), Wide Load (fat Rainbow Dixie), Sapphire (Blue Sapphire), the ISA’s (catch all name for the ISA’s we have-no names yet) Midnight (black Jersey Giant), Reddy (Rhode...

And here I thought fart eggs were the eggs laid under wifeys blanket in the winter time…..Learned something new today. Lmao.

Seems legit. We have a weather station in the house so we can monitor the coop remotely from our phones. Humidity is the biggest threat right now. Our coop has a vent high up and one lower. The high up one is always open. The lower one we modulate. Warm moist air rises. Since the upper...

Were going thru a severe cold snap with lowest actual air temp of around -34F at night. Wind chills have been around -60F. Our 10 hens have been in their coop since the cold snap. We don't have any heat in the coop due to fire risk. We did DLM and so far they have not been bothered by the...

Send one egg. One egg only please. (Obscure movie quote there.)

My wife informed me its 120# every quarter. Sorry for the wrong info....

I don't like posting my exact location. But if you examine the fin flash in my picture. You'll have a general idea where I am.

Just checking to see what everyone is seeing for egg prices. We sell ours all day long and still take reservations at $4.5/dozen.

I feed mine pizza about 1x/month. They don't complain unless the slices land topping side down. No complaints from the flock thus far though. I'd be more leery of the big companies feed that could contain Monsanto items in it. I don't have proof of any big name feed containing Monsanto...

mine self feed from a 30 gallon trash can. I install 240# of high quality locally made feed every quarter. I have 10 hens. You do the math. But your mileage may vary.

Another good D-Fence for your birds is your own GOOD dog. Our dog is a yellow lab/husky mix. Hes been around them since we brought them home from the farm store. Our brooder had a window in it so the chicks could see the world. He would lay there and whimper at them, wanting to play...

You neither? We got 3 feet back in November and havent had any speak of since... Except 90mph wind.....🙄

Good evening everyone. Brand new chicken shepherd here. We got our flock of 10 chicks the other day, 2x Rhode Island Red, 2x Buff Orp, 2x Speckled Sussex, 2x Rainbox Dixie, and 2x Black Australorp, all pullet. I have them in the homemade brooder box, in the house with a heat lamp. The temp...

thanks everyone for the kind words. we look forward to learning.

Hello everyone. Looking forward to this new adventure. 1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? New to raising chickens. Been eating them professionally for 42 years :D We will be getting our first chicks in a couple weeks when they arrive at the store. (2) How many...