Last year we made a PVC chicken feeder and posted about how we hoped it would fix our problems with our messy ducks (they brought water in all the feeders we purchased and made our feed into paste). As the ducklings grew up, they quit dribbling into the food so much and we went from [...]
Kathy is out of town right now, so I’m stopping in on the birds this week As usual in Colorado, we’ve had highs in the single digits this week (Tuesday) with snow and then it was about 55 degrees yesterday midday. What do you do? When I checked the birds Tuesday, they were happy to [...]
I know this is being posted late, but bear with me, we’ve been really busy!! About a month ago (beginning of September) our birds we brought home in March started laying eggs! We were very excited when, for the first couple days, we had 2-3 eggs a day!! Shortly after that, we were up to [...]
If you don’t scald the chicken, it’s almost impossible to pull the feathers out. Of course, you could always remove the feathers by skinning the chicken, but I like the juiciness that the skin gives a roasted or fried chicken, so I prefer to leave the skin on. We spent about $60 to buy a [...]