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  1. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    No. I ran down to PA for some pond supplies and the store I was at was selling the same thing for $23.49. I stuffed 2 bags in the back of the care with the other things I bought. It's just Flock Raiser crumbles.
  2. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    To enter the photo contests that are not going to be printed in a calendar your resolution is just fine. I would enter the pictures! They are great!
  3. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    When I started out with my flock a little over 4 years ago the price of a 50 lb bag of feed was $17.99. The last three times I went to the feed store to get feed the price had gone up each time. The last time at the local feed store I always go to the price was at $26.49. That is a nearly a 50%...
  4. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Fabio and I agree!! Nothing like a good pair of Carhartts.
  5. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's -6F this morning and I'd rather that than deal with a sun that is trying to kill me! NY winter TAX:
  6. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Not a problem for me. The chickens area is circled in blue. The red X's mark the locations chickens have been left.
  7. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Reproductive cancer is not contagious. Neither is getting fatally mauled by a GSD. Or an incurable vent prolapse. Or a hen and a cockerel that flew into the coop/run wall and broke their necks. Or a hawk strike fatality. Regardless, most diseases of poultry would not be communicable to mammalian...
  8. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Probably. A vet once said to me "I've never euthanized a pet too soon but have euthanized many far too late". I watch my flock closely for the first sign of abnormal behavior. The coop cameras help immensely with this as I can see their normal behavior without them seeing me. I was able to treat...
  9. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Well, they're the chickens eggs so they can damn well have them back!
  10. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Those are just minor peck wounds. Any one of my flock members will have some. Why can't they just give peace a chance?
  11. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I didn't want the white fence because I wanted it to blend a little better so I got the green one from Kencove. I bought three 164' rolls and enough extra poles to double the number that come with the fence.
  12. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Yes. It encloses roughly 1/3 of an acre of my property. This is the chickens territory.
  13. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    @Shadrach, I thought you'd appreciate this on two fronts... You know I have a very mixed flock. Some of them. Until recently, I've never had any "color cliques". Three of the originals hang out together but they are all very different in appearance. Now that the Double Silver Laced...
  14. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Anywhere that sells pickling and canning supplies. In my case, Agway.
  15. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I'm eating eggs that were laid last summer. One homesteader said they'd eaten year old eggs.
  16. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The ratio is 1 oz hydrated lime (pickling lime) to a quart of water. You mix up the solution and lower clean, unwashed eggs into it. I would wash and sell or immediately eat soiled eggs and save the cleanest ones for "the soup". The buckets are kept loosely covered to prevent too much...
  17. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I guess it is to some. We eat a Paleo diet so I cook everything. I need something fast and easy for work days so I make a frittata every week. They consume 10 eggs right there. I put a boiled egg on our salads and we eat a salad every day.
  18. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't have enough freezer space for that. When egg production is up, we consume about 34 eggs a week between the two of us. I keep the water glassed egg buckets in the basement. Once a week, I pull out what I'll need for cooking that week using a pasta ladle, which in this household is called...
  19. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    In anticipation of low to no egg production this winter as my flock is aging, I began water glassing eggs in June. I managed to collect two 5-gallon buckets worth and we've been eating them since October. They are more fragile and watery than a fresh egg but taste the same and perform the same...
  20. DobieLover

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh for crying out loud, Perris!! I'll just send you Tonk!!! This little monster went broody at least 6 times last year. She's a nut.
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