Leah and I decided that we didn’t want our chickens to flail around while bleeding out, so we decided that a killing cone was just the thing for us. You can buy them, but since we are trying to do everything as inexpensively as possible, we decided to surf the net and find out how [...]
We live right on the edge of town where the foothills turn quickly into mountains. So even though I don’t feel like we live in the woods, we share our space with a lot of wildlife. Right now there is a herd of about 11 bachelor bull elk wandering the neighborhood and a larger herd [...]
As I write this, the odor from cleaning out the meat chicks’ pen still lingers in my nostrils, though I’ve scrubbed my hands and changed my clothes. Based on all my other experience with chickens, I would never have imagined that 21 little birds could put out such disgusting stuff in such HUGE quantities. When [...]
Recently we decided that we didn’t feel the store-bought feeders we have were the best option for our chickens. The humidity has been up lately and it’s been raining quite a bit and the feed in our feeder is either lightly caking or soaked into big chunks. When the food starts to get “cakey” it [...]