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Check out my BCM pullet Penguin.

I would like another BCM rooster, but I don’t think I’ll be able to keep 2 roosters. The one I have now is not perfect, but he is tolerable. The crowing is usually around 6 am til 630 then stops for awhile and doesn’t crow but maybe every hour or so. The other BCM was crowing about every 2...

That’s exciting in the shipped eggs. Those are the BBS marans? Here’s a pic of the chicks right now taking a siesta inside their large chicken wire playpen. I have to keep them in here for the majority of the day and then let them free range for 2-3 hrs in the evening. The dog can only protect...

Thanks for asking. The 19 has unfortunately gone down to 14. I lost 4 about 3 weeks ago and then another 1 last week. I never saw what happened to any of them. They have been slipping through the chain link and getting into the alley and I think are getting snatched by neighbors’ free ranging...

She has recovered completely. I had to keep her penned up in a dog kennel for almost a week and put neosporin on the wounds daily. I did give her sardines as well as scrambled eggs. The first day I let her back out the cockerel mounted her and tore open her wounds, but I kept treating her and...

I learned that word comes from creel, meaning the wicker type of woven fishing baskets. “With an uncomplicated design and simplicity, the creel is a symbol of fishing from days gone by. The word “creel” or “a wickerwork receptacle” dates back to the Middle English, between 1250 and 1450 A.D. A...

Yes they are. Thanks!

1/4 acre is perfect for 100 chickens at 108sqft/ea

For eggs to be labeled pasture raised it is 108 sqft/hen. I try to get close to that.

I see 224. That sounds pretty small for 10 birds.

You mentioned you were only 15’ from the neighbors. What is your total square footage for the run?

I’m in austin. I think it’s 50’ from neighbor’s buildings. I let mine roam free in the yard and return to an open air style coop. I have one rooster and noise isn’t too bad.