Yeah....it was pornographically comical the first few days.
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"This is getting xerographica long." Heh... heh.
"I acquired 100 cinnamon"
At first I was like *head scratch*. Then I realized that you were talking about chickens.
Don't keep all your eggs in the same basket. Your farm as a whole seems quite diverse... if some disease wipes out all your chickens then you've still got your rabbits, quails, guineas and ducks. The potato famine was the result of too many eggs being in the same basket.
That was very innovate to use a concrete mixer to mix your chicken feed! I love the idea of getting the balance right.
About that ratio of roosters to hens. When I was in the Army the ratio was the opposite. The "hens" had the pick of the litter. This is useful when it comes to thinking about the labor market. Liberals think that they help workers when they increase the minimum wage and impose all sorts of worker regulations and benefits on employers. But all they end up doing is making it harder to be an employer. In economic terms, liberals increase the "barrier to entry". A higher barrier to entry means less employers. When there are a lot less employers to choose from... then the employers will have the upper hand. They'll have the pick of the litter. They'll have the leverage and the power. If the barrier to entry was as low as possible, then there would be a lot more employers. As a result, they'd have to compete for workers... and good workers would have the pick of the litter.
I have no roosters. Im not in the chick business. Eggs only. My small flock is expendable. I don't think coastie is in it for the chicks either? Some chicken keepers only keep a rooster or two around to help protect the flock.
"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." W. C. Fields
A couple of weeks ago something dug under the fence on the Buffs side. Our Buff rooster had bloody feet from fighting with (what we suspect was a rat). 2 days ago I picked up a Leghorn hen, and when she objected the Leghorn rooster came running. I love that the roosters are so protective of their girls!
Being cremated...my last chance for a SMOKING HOT BODY!!
hawgrider (02-23-2017)
My barreds and americaunas will go broody. But these production hens don't have a clue. That mean ass rooster will fight anything. He got launched across the yard everyday for a week before he finally conceded my wife was meaner than him.
I fear the nation I loved may be gone. The best I hope for now is to die with honor in the coming civil war, and that my grandchildren be spared the pain of a tyrannical government.
News Flash: Statistics show the last time Blacks had a 100% employment rate was 1863
Great thread! Thanks for this. There is no way that I would ever have 100 chickens, but I would love to have about ten. The wife doesn't want them. She says that they are nasty birds. LOL.
Friends don't let friends shoot Glocks.
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I'm not going to lie. A wet day followed by a warm one can make it pretty ripe around Casa de Pollo.
I fear the nation I loved may be gone. The best I hope for now is to die with honor in the coming civil war, and that my grandchildren be spared the pain of a tyrannical government.
News Flash: Statistics show the last time Blacks had a 100% employment rate was 1863
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