Ordered chicks today

[arnofarrell]

I will remember that. But seriously I am happily married and I hope this doesnt happen to me while I am out night fishing or bullfroging.

 

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[arnofarrell]

No way will I give 'em away. If I can break even on feed cost I'm good. I tried for $2 a dozen. As much they all tell me they're delicious, they'd go back to cheaper tasteless store-bought. I think a dozen+ hens are going to end up in the freezer soon.

I wasnt trying to say you should give them away I was just saying I end up with so many and so many people around here sell them that I end up giving alot away or feed them to the dogs. It is good for the dogs coats, they get nice and shinny.

 

[arnofarrell]

Nothing beats farm raised eggs. I use them for baking and they are so much better than store bought. I even use goose eggs but for some reason my wife wont eat them. They are so fluffy when cooked.

 

[l2hunt]

usually get reds, but this year we got the buffs, speckled, and barred, should be good layers!

 

[arnofarrell]

Reds are kind of my go to bird but I have had buffs and barred before and they do do well.

 

[truckinbutch]

Weasel in the hen house! bring a couple dozen eggs to feign delivery if you get caught.

UMMHUMM , Betcha he took a fifth along with those cheap eggs to 'console' a 'coon huntin widow'

 

[releventchair]

UMMHUMM , Betcha he took a fifth along with those cheap eggs to 'console' a 'coon huntin widow'

He,s happily married so i won,t say what to do if he got "caught" caught. Something about her idea and no cash.

Took the fifth,i get it now!

 

[truckinbutch]

I'm just talking from experience . I found no profit in chasing barking dogs up and down mountains all night long far from home . Me and a fifth tryin to make the 8 second buzzer and being judged 'Good Ride' was a whole different rodeo .

 

[arnofarrell]

There really isn't much profit in coon huntin. I have went a few times with my friend and it is basically chasing dogs and when they do bark the coon is already gone or inside the tree. I think my friend only got 4 coons all season.

 

[releventchair]

Good times runnin coons.
My first hunt dads buddy took dads girlfriends son and i along with a brace of hounds. He climbed a tree and shook a coon out that jumped in the river with both dogs after it. Two slack jawed kids holding what passed for flashlites then on the chaos in the water,meanwhile the dogs owner had knocked his headlamp out up in the tree and was hollerin for a lite so he could get to his dogs to little avail.
Middle of the night we shared slices of rutabaga at an artisan well that was only visible sign of an old school house.(hope we wern,t standing on old coins).

 

[fistfulladirt]

Shot one coon yesterday afternoon, he was on our front porch nesting in the cat's box.
An hour before that I shot a huge groundhog from my dads back deck. Dad had set a cage trap out with no luck. I said, "hand me the .22".
Critters are out in full force. It's always this time of year when the coons will wreak havoc on an unsecured coop.

 

[releventchair]

Miss my coop,(2nd exes now). A multi hundred dollar project but never got invaded. Not an easy task,every thing eats chicks. If i build another,attached run will have a double wire ceiling over it. Never had birds of prey panic flock into over head wire to grab heads but have eagle,hawks and owls here.
Knew a gal who killed a wood chuck trying to get in a rabbit pen!?. Wonder what its intentions were.

 

[truckinbutch]

Miss my coop,(2nd exes now). A multi hundred dollar project but never got invaded. Not an easy task,every thing eats chicks. If i build another,attached run will have a double wire ceiling over it. Never had birds of prey panic flock into over head wire to grab heads but have eagle,hawks and owls here.
Knew a gal who killed a wood chuck trying to get in a rabbit pen!?. Wonder what its intentions were.

Woodchuck probably trying to get rabbit food .

 

[Dixiegal]

Try Chuckars. They are supposed to be very good at surviving. We are going to get some to pen raise and then let about half go every year until hopefully they will populate the area. Anyway thats our plan.

 

[0121stockpicker]

Any bee keepers out there. I want to try my hand at beekeeping - love honey!!

 

[bartholomewroberts]

I have been thinking of ordering 50-100 meat birds and just butcher them in a few months and have a ton of chicken! I might do that next year.

My wife and I raise meat birds every year... It started out wife a few for us.. maybe 30 or so. Then a few friends asked if they could buy some from us.. So we agreed. It has got to the point that the whole thing has spiraled out of control. I could do 500 birds per year (plus 30 turkeys which we do anyways), and it would not be enough. I sell them for $3.00 per pound and people cannot get enough. I have told my customers that this next year, I am going back to doing only enough for my wife and myself. I did build the ultimate chicken plucker though.. I can put three birds in at once and 15 seconds later, there are no (and I do mean no) feathers on them!! One of the best things I have ever built. We also have a flock of seabrite bantams. Cute as a button and they do not destroy the garden when they scratch. They only eat the bugs. If they have a failing it is that they love to hide their eggs

 

[bartholomewroberts]

Nothing beats farm raised eggs. I use them for baking and they are so much better than store bought. I even use goose eggs but for some reason my wife wont eat them. They are so fluffy when cooked.

Have you ever tries ostrich Eggs? We have an ostrich farm just down the road from us... The eggs are wonderful; light, fluffy and delicious..... But for two people... No way!!!! LOL Way too much... but for a group of people.. it is wonderful.... and novel

 

[stefen]

Was edging the walkways from the garage and barn to the house one day and was attacked by a male muscovy...swung the edger and decapitated the damn bird...

Well, the old man said "Now y'all have an excuse to clean the duck."

Damn duck. Muscovies stinks as bad as turkeys...

 

[truckinbutch]

Was edging the walkways from the garage and barn to the house one day and was attacked by a male muscovy...swung the edger and decapitated the damn bird...

Well, the old man said "Now y'all have an excuse to clean the duck."

Damn duck. Muscovies stinks as bad as turkeys...

Neighbor had some of those genetic mistakes until he put in a pit silo . They filled up on fermented corn from the bottom of the pit and flew off in a group .................... right into the side of a barn . None survived the collision

 

[0121stockpicker]

My wife and I raise meat birds every year... It started out wife a few for us.. maybe 30 or so. Then a few friends asked if they could buy some from us.. So we agreed. It has got to the point that the whole thing has spiraled out of control. I could do 500 birds per year (plus 30 turkeys which we do anyways), and it would not be enough. I sell them for $3.00 per pound and people cannot get enough. I have told my customers that this next year, I am going back to doing only enough for my wife and myself. I did build the ultimate chicken plucker though.. I can put three birds in at once and 15 seconds later, there are no (and I do mean no) feathers on them!! One of the best things I have ever built. We also have a flock of seabrite bantams. Cute as a button and they do not destroy the garden when they scratch. They only eat the bugs. If they have a failing it is that they love to hide their eggs

We have a local guy in MA called bobs turkey farm. Does a fantastic business on the meat and also turkey pies. Turned it into a real biz supplying a lot of stores etc. best of luck.