Okay. You Have Chickens. What Else?

[SkyAJK]

Masters of Science in Teaching X-)

Got it.

Still "Chicken Math" is special

 

[Lil Country]

We're here because we mostly have chickens. What else are you tending in your yard?

Me:
Chickens
Meat Rabbits
Honeybees

In the future:
A pond with fish
Hair Sheep

In my Backwoods (hunting critters I plant things for):
Deer
Turkeys

I work as a teaching paraprofessional to pay off student loan debt, but homesteading is kind of my retirement plan with my husband.

I can cook and plan; he can fix and build just about anything.

We have chickens, 3 rabbits, 1 cat and 3 dogs.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

We have chickens, 3 rabbits, 1 cat and 3 dogs.

And your next animal will be...?

 

[NorthernHomestead]

I have this painful wanting to get more chickens and each day I tended to my 13 chickens, the mountain amount of work that is and still I look for more chickens, it gets worse whenever my hens go broody, they want to hatch eggs, I want so much too...

This is the pulling feeling of wanting more chickens is pulling me every moment of their broodiness until they are out of it and so I am out of it with them.

What is that......feeling of wanting more chickens??

Looking at your signature... chicken is tasty and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Want proof? Offer some chicken to your chickens.

Better proof is harvesting a chicken your chicken shared a coop with in the yard and watching them come up voluntarily to peck out its eyeballs and organs.

Watch it ONCE and you'll never feel bad about consuming your chickens again. If you want to hatch out, you need a plan for all the roos. They SA the hens when they hit puberty. If the hens hide, they SA the smaller roos.

Chicken pho is delicious. Stock up on cinnamon sticks, star anise, and fish sauce. (I'm not even Asian, it's just fact. it's crazy good.)

 

[SkyAJK]

Looking at your signature... chicken is tasty and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Want proof? Offer some chicken to your chickens.

Better proof is harvesting a chicken your chicken shared a coop with in the yard and watching them come up voluntarily to peck out its eyeballs and organs.

Watch it ONCE and you'll never feel bad about consuming your chickens again. If you want to hatch out, you need a plan for all the roos. They SA the hens when they hit puberty. If the hens hide, they SA the smaller roos.

Chicken pho is delicious. Stock up on cinnamon sticks, star anise, and fish sauce. (I'm not even Asian, it's just fact. it's crazy good.)

I used to eat chickens and I love it.

But when I got my first flock of 6 little chicks from the nursing home Easter display, all the interaction we had with our 6 little chicks were the highlight above everything else. They sat on our laps, they groom us, we put together a metal enclosure for them and put together their coop, they jump on it as those were being put together, .e.tc.. it was a family affair. .....etc

I got home from work, called out my rooster's name, he jumped over the run fence ran to the garage to greet me. I missed them when I was at work....etc..y... the whole deal of it.

Out of the blue, I felt so gross & fearful standing at the shop looking to buy chicken..etc... It was not an intentional choice not to eat chicken. The feeling of grossness & fear of buying chickens was so over melting....hence we no longer eat chickens.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

I used to eat chickens and I love it.

But when I got my first flock of 6 little chicks from the nursing home Easter display, all the interaction we had with our 6 little chicks were the highlight above everything else. They sat on our laps, they groom us, we put together a metal enclosure for them and put together their coop, they jump on it as those were being put together, .e.tc.. it was a family affair. .....etc

I got home from work, called out my rooster's name, he jumped over the run fence ran to the garage to greet me. I missed them when I was at work....etc..y... the whole deal of it.

Out of the blue, I felt so gross & fearful standing at the shop looking to buy chicken..etc... It was not an intentional choice not to eat chicken. The feeling of grossness & fear of buying chickens was so over melting....hence we no longer eat chickens.

Keeping the meat in the freezer for a few months helps to mentally distance, too.

 

[GodLovesU]

Between me and my siblings and parents we have: 7 dogs, 11 chickens, 3 button quail, a goldfish, a turtle, a corn snake, a bearded dragon, 4 bettas, 3 ember tetras, 2 aquatic snails, and 2 hermit crabs.

 

[MapleLaurelFarms]

We're here because we mostly have chickens. What else are you tending in your yard?

We do layers and meat birds which I adore and always want more.

We have a goofy 100-lb LSG dog who I've had since she was 5 weeks old (she's now 6) but I still threaten to re-home that gorgeous, pig-headed thing every single day. Also a very sweet but troublesome mouser cat who has been with us for more than a decade.

Husband does honey bees and is constantly expanding those.

Not animals, but we also have a huge garden, berries, etc along with woodland ephemerals and edibles. I love to hike and forage and would be up for hunting our land once retirement allows us the time, but we don't have many future plans beyond expanding and finishing up what we have. We're past the half-century mark in age and just want to relax a tiny bit. One day. Maybe lol.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

We do layers and meat birds which I adore and always want more.

We have a goofy 100-lb LSG dog who I've had since she was 5 weeks old (she's now 6) but I still threaten to re-home that gorgeous, pig-headed thing every single day. Also a very sweet but troublesome mouser cat who has been with us for more than a decade.

Husband does honey bees and is constantly expanding those.

Not animals, but we also have a huge garden, berries, etc along with woodland ephemerals and edibles. I love to hike and forage and would be up for hunting our land once retirement allows us the time, but we don't have many future plans beyond expanding and finishing up what we have. We're past the half-century mark in age and just want to relax a tiny bit. One day. Maybe lol.

I never thought to mention the house animals or garden. 1 small old JR terrier, two cats, about 15 fruit trees (pears/plums/apples/serviceberries/cherries), grapes, raspberries, rhubarb and we grow tomatoes/peppers/winter and summer squash each summer. And a pantry full of pressure canned meat/broth/preserves/sauce. I'm sure I'm missing something...

Oh! Every few years we tap the boxelder trees for syrup (they call it Manitoba Maple and it tastes like caramel). And we're starting to collect solar panels to farm the sun.

 

[Evadig]

I have eighteen chickens, a turkey, two rabbits, and three cats in the yard. Inside the house there's another cat, two dogs, and two parakeets.