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The more I’ve gotten into Chickening the more I’ve gotten into gardening. I raise egg layers and meat birds and have found that the subject of composting could easily deserve a dedicated thread. Sure it’s gardening related, but the subject is not appealing to all gardeners or chicken...

well, sadly our early round of eggs got overcome with cold during a cold snap here in the Pacific North West while under our trusted Broody, but on an up note, the woman who supplied the original set through 4-H was nice enough to give us 18 more. we are on Day 10 and this is definitely in the...

We've got an 17 week old black sex link that from what I can find about feather color markings really should be a hen (red on the chest but it's got all the deep red wattles/head of a rooster and today it crowed. I'm rather perplexed and our kids are super bummed, it was their prized chick that...

One of our BO went broody this spring and so we got some fertile eggs from a friend and let her have her own chicks. she was a awesome mom but the day did come when she started back to laying eggs and where the pullets could be on their own, it was time to reintroduce her to her flock of 4...

I'm starting this thread because I've come across some challenges that are somewhat unique to growing meat birds in the suburban environment. background: I grew up on a farm in PA many years ago and now wish to share some of my farm experiences with my children, even though we live on a...

I'm getting ready to process my COB 500 Cornish Cross. We've got 29 that will be ready in about 2 weeks and I'm wanting to find a way to compost all the leftover parts like head/neck, feet and feathers. We generally are recycling minded and I don't want to throw away valuable nutrients that...

our Astrolorp went broody about a month ago and I decided, what the heck, I'll get some fertile eggs off of craig's list and help my friend build her flock without the tedium of using an incubator or having to tend the chicks by hand. so I waited the recommended week to assure she was...

Greetings all, I wanted to pass on my experience. a couple of weeks ago we harvested our first cornish cross. I read up on all sorts of things, got a chicken plucker and kill cone from a local lending library, got a propane burner set up for the scalder and prepared my children for their first...

I'm on my second batch of Cornish Cross and the difference from the first is night and day and it has me wondering, how many different strains of Cornish Cross are there? my first order was from http://www.mthealthy.com/ and it was a rough go. the chicks arrived with half of them with almost...

Greetings, we started our flock last year by hatching eggs for our daughter's kinder garden school project. this year we are helping our neighbor get their flock started. we have fallen in love with Orpingtons for their kid friendliness. we bought lavender orpington eggs off e-bay and had 10...