That is not fun at all. having chicken children is tough, my husband and I are just realizing how attached you can get to some silly chickens..
I hope that they can improve.
Hello I have a question,
I had to butcher one of my astrolorps the other day because of a injury (sigh, the one my daughter named and carried around...NO more named chickens)
my question is this... she was about 9 months old and a great layer, but she was very fatty. Is this good or bad. I...
no fuzzy legs or crest, very pink legs, 5 toes so who knows
come to think of it I had a small blue egg (i said hmm thats different) a couple of days ago that I thought was from my EE pocohanas, but looking at my tracker she has laid for almost a week straight...which she never does...so the...
So I have a conundrum
2 blue eggs in my nest today, which leads me to 2 possibilities
1. My EE laid a egg yesterday (I checked yesterday but not last night or this morning) and a smaller bluer egg today.
2. My dorking (5 toes)/wyandotte is a dorking/EE (read weebie) and laid her first egg...
This is the the roo my wyandotte is from? my husband was very impressed
I take it Big'un is aptly named because he looks huge in this pic. Our boy at 9 weeks is almost as tall as my 17week Plymouth barred rocks...
mabelino where do you live?
If you want to learn how to process many local farms will let you come out to experience it. I know people and farms for the tidewater area, there are others on here who can give you help if you are closer to them.
J
I know at our williamsburg TSC one of the ladies there will take all roosters to send to freezer camp. It is not hard to do yourself, just make sure your knife is sharp.
Has anyone on here had issues with VA cities re-zoning for chickens or changing the zoning??
Hampton currently has 175 ft setback, but then no limits on chickens unless you get noise or smell complaints...
there is a proposal to change it to 20ft setback but the chicken limit will then be 4...
For VA peeps here is a link to a organic, soy free source of chicken feed. They have deliveries all over VA.
http://www.countrysideorganics.com/home.php
The farm I get milk, pork and beef from recommended them to me.
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That would freak me out, we had baby toads in our backyard in SC and my weims would eat them and then foam at the mouth, luckily I never saw snakes
^ that is frustrating that someone would try to pawn off a sick chicken. It could have taken out the whole flock.
My multitasking fail for the day: dont forget you have eggs in your pockets when you start trying to do other chores...broken eggs in both pockets not cool at all
She is super sweet, I will make sure she drinks some more. She is on day 11, I so want to candle but I only want to do it once and I have been tryingto wit until day 14