Posted on 02/04/2023 4:39:18 PM PST by ransomnote
water filter companies? Nothing to see here. The Ohios will just haul water in from Flint, Detroit, or Jackson, Mississippi?
Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex ❗❓ tee hee
Start-up costs? You didn’t ask me but I have some related experience.
It’s best if the coop is big enough and tight enough to be at least, slightly heated in the winter. Layers do best if they’re not struggling to keep warm in winter and can be ventilated in the warm months.
One egg per day per clucker is a good way to count but they’ll skip a day once in awhile.
They like to browse outside in the driveway gravel because they need grit but their home cage needs to be small mesh and buried a foot or so around its perimeter. A wire cover over the pen is desirable: Owls and hawks love them some chicken.
I’m not really a chicken farmer but I am , indeed, a varmit hunter. My neighbors have used my advice when starting chickens and have had minimal losses. I always know when they get chickens because within two months I’ll start to see skunks, raccoons, coyotes, marmots and a few other miscellaneous varmits heading that way. They all love chicken eggs and will steal your breakfast every time.
When they have their flocks operating I usually kill at least one varmit per day. Sometimes I actually tell the neighbors and they are amazed at what their flocks attract.
So, Yeah, a proper chicken coop/yard will be your biggest expense.
And don’t buy Purina feed until further notice.
You’re welcome!
Depends, I love eggs at least 18/week. Most chickens you get one maybe two/bird/day. And the homegrown can vary in size. If you can swing it, it is the way to get great eggs. Unless you get ducks that have a superior egg.
Valuable info, many thanks. My nephew raises chickens for eggs, but unfortunately he now lives almost 2 hours away. Always liked the different shell colors laid by the various breeds / sub-breeds.
Does anyone know is this type of cancer has been related to the jab?
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It’s not clear what causes undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. What is known is that this cancer begins when a cell develops changes in its DNA.
DNA has the instructions on how to make proteins. RNA actually provides these instructions to the “protein factories” in our cells. The covid mRNA vaccines have introduced their own and very different set of instructions to our protein factories. Overriding our God-given instructions with a pharmaceutical set of instructions is unlikely to end well. It’s already being reported that runaway cancers are among the (un?) intended consequences. Is undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma one of them? Probably.
Thanks for the benefit of your knowledge & experience. I’d very much like to give it a shot. Would prefer to have them be semi-free range, and have a section of the back yard that would lend itself to becoming a fairly spacious chicken run, with a gate & stout lock and then the coop inside it. Maybe some smaller chicken wire attached to the chain-link for security.
So the coop would be the most labor and time-intensive to get it set up right. Guess I can live with that. Oh, and I almost forgot about verifying whether the town ordinances would allow it, or if they’re considered “livestock”. One town worker told me that hens ARE allowed in-town, but not roosters because their crowing would piss off the neighbors. Heh.
Chicken Slide...... do people still offer crushed oyster shells to their hens, to promote good shells on the eggs? Back in the 70s when I was the chicken-raising girl on our farm, we offered them oyster shells. Just curious.
What ornery cats!
the PEPE heart meme and poem is my favorite meme of the day.
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I like it too!
If you want to learn about egg layers, fancy breeds, broilers, and dual purpose birds, try this: https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html
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Did you see this unrolled thread? I would like to know what you think of it, lots of technical info beyond my pay grade, but it seems that the thing isn’t as bad as many are portraying.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1624935878639353856.html
Based on my preliminary research, the derailed train of Vinyl Chloride is going to be something of a short term calamity with hopefully few long term effects. Apart from the cause of the derailment most everything else makes sense.
Yeah, you don’t need roosters to get eggs. And you don’t need PO’d neighbors.
Should have mentioned the skunks and raccoons will dig under a fence so you need at least a secure place for Henrieta to roost.
Oyster shells might be a regional thing but any convenient source of calcium can’t hurt. The cluckers know. they will pick/peck and chooze.
LOL . . . the lady across the street from me has 2 of them, who sit in her front window every morning to watch the world go by. Makes me think of Skippity Paps every time I see them. :-)
Many thanks! More to chickens than meets the eye, I reckon! :-)
He and Butt-edge are doing a bang-up job. Both check the boxes. Both are consumed with racism, not protecting the People.
You're right. I saw a chemical engineer later who explained the conversion to hydrochloric acid in the airborne plume.
Bad ju-ju.
You say only the President can authorize the military to fight back in the civil war.
That’s very convenient for the enemy that has stolen the office.
You are wrong and the military is wrong.
If we play by those rules the enemy has already won and we have surrendered.
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