Sufficient Self members with Poultry!

[MeanCheek]

Who has birds? How many? What breeds? Chickens, ducks, quail, guineas, turkeys, geese, peafowl, pheasants, pigeons/doves, anything!

 

[Finnie]

After 8 years of owning turkeys, I finally ate one of my home grown ones!

Christmas dinner:

New Year’s Day soup:
(This turkey’s name was Soup, btw.)

And turkey broth for my first time ever pressure canning:

 

[murphysranch]

My eleven hens and oops rooster are now five months old. Four of the hens are laying. For two days now!! Small blue eggs and maybe a kinda green one!! On the floor of the coop and one in the poop box.

DD said she's not gonna eat them if I keep the rooster. She doesn't want to find embryos in her eggs. I told her that won't happen as long as its so cold out.

Time to set up the nesting boxes.

 

[Hinotori]

I always crack into a bowl. Only takes one blood egg to make you remember to do it

 

[MeanCheek]

My first chick from an actual breeding! The rare and very endangered Pyncheon

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

4/6 babies are here! @Hinotori thanks for chiming in and all the guidance. I moved her, eggs and 2 chicks to a lower nest encompassed in an enclosed area in the main coop and she settled right in. They are hardware clothed off so the other hens can see them but have space and food. She hasn't come off the nest yet, I am thinking maybe late today or tomorrow. She has 1 baby almost out and 1 pipped of the remaining 2. I did give her some mash this morning so she would get some food/fluid and she was sharing with the 2 born yesterday, so cute! Here are a couple pics

 

[LizGio]

Hello! I'm new here visiting from BYC. I have 25 chickens. Some are awaiting culling as we have 7 roos.

4 BLRW (2 roos)
2 Australorp (1 roo)
1 barred boy, probably a rock
1 olive egger roo
3 ee
2 silkie x ee cross
2 sapphire gems
1 GC
1 RIR
5 silkies (2 roo)
2 gray pullets, one with muffs
1GLW

 

[tortoise]

I found an embryo in an egg once. They had been on the kitchen counter in a basket for at least a week (unwashed eggs are fine at room temp for a month). But... it was summer and HOT.

The embryo looked **exactly** like a cooked garbanzo bean. And now I know why garbanzo beans are called "chickpeas" 🤢

 

[Phaedra]

Girls are laying again after the molting, so happy.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Some day #lifegoals