Recent content by lynn1961

Our Beaglier is a mouser too, she is so pregnant now that I think the mice could catch her, funny to watch her waddle around. Hope she has the puppies soon, esp. before it gets too much hotter.

Not Chicken related, But how is everyone's gardens doing ? We are getting lots of green beans, and the squash are really starting to get after it. I keep eyeballing those green tomatoes, seems like they are taking their sweet time this year getting ready. I am really surprised that the garden...

I have a wellie on a batch due to hatch March 16th. Mix of wellsummer roo and all the free range hens, should be an interesting mix! And a Buff orpington hen whose eggs should be hatching on the 23rd

For anyone that might rememberBubba the knuckle footed calf from ast Febuary/March, he made it lmost to a year old before he started having problems with that weaker leg, he has made it to freezer camp! What a job to process him at home, but was sure worth the effort.

Yeah , it's broody hen time in southern Oklahoma. Had one hen that started setting last saturday, and two more started yesterday, I am hoping this is a sign that the weather is going to straighten out and start to get warmer and stop it's flip flopping around.

Rhinomeadows : Nice to meet you neighbor. We are from the Durant/Madill area. The only chiken sale that I can think of is at Teel's barn on Hwy 70 across from JC Potters sausage in durant, sales are on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, outside sale starts at 6pm, then the chickens, other...

Hapy New Year, here's to a great and wonderful 2013 for everyone!

Good early morning from south central Oklahoma ! A nice cool 31 degrees here today, brr, not ready for winter time. Guess I am still on daylight savings time, day off and should still be sleeping, lol

I am growing out my second batch of inteded cross breeds for a larger meat bird that is still a good layer. The first bunch of them were a cross of Welsummer roo over Easter egger hens (easter eggers are mutts ) These girls lay an average of 5 to 6 times a week and the eggs they lay are...

The best crosses for egg production we have had so far have been welsummer roo over an easter egger hen. they have made beautifuls hens that lay an olive/teel colored eggs, some of the eggs have some spots, these mix girls lay an egg thats average sive is 2 1/2 inches long, the hens are not very...

That is an interesting compairison, we will be butchering buff orpingtons and welsummers to comapre to the cornish cross, to see if the taste is better. The cornish that we raised were free ranged, they were not real bland, but they sure were ugly, feed consuming, pooping machines. The wellies...

Have 14 roosters to put in the freezer very soon, will be interesting to see what kind of meat we will get out of wellsummers, and buff orpingtons, I know it will be nothing like those meaties are.

Love the cyro vac bags, makes a great looking end product and not hard to do. Have also used butcher paper, try putting the bird in a plastic twist tie bag, getting all of the air out that you can, then wrap in freezer paper or butcher paper, the freezer paper makes the meat stay in better shape...

Hello Texans, anyone near the Center of Texas/Oklahoma boarders ?

It is like chicken pox in kids, viral, you can not treat them for it, it will slowly spread through you flock ( think of the way kids have chicken pox and spead it to other kids ) You do need to watch out for secondary infections and treat for those, as long as it stays dry all should be okay...