Grow Your Own Food (Homesteading)
With inflation and food shortages, people are looking for ways to be…
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With inflation and food shortages, people are looking for ways to be…
April is the time of year when you get out the Outdoor…
In part 1 of his healthy home series, Skip showed you how…
We are going to focus on egg producing birds:
Baby Chicks and Adults
on the Plaza:
Black Australorp – Great Dual Purpose Breed
Buff Orpington – Very tame and docile great with kids
Cream Legbar – Unique Egg color and auto sexing(the females are a different color than the males.)
Dominique- Excellent Dual purpose
Red Sex Links – Same as the adults here. Best Brown egg layer!
Olive Egger – Lays olive colored eggs
Easter Eggers – Lays Blue and Green Eggs
Salmon Faverolles – Excellent Layer of cream color eggs
Bantam Silkies – Very popular small birds. Feathers are more like fur than feathers
Skips Pick – Skip likes the easter eggers, salmon faverolles and redsexlinks. He likes the variety of egg color and how much they produce! The adult birds we have with us today are the red sex links!
Egg Producing Birds:
Need Four things to Survive
Skips pick – Collapsible Chick Brooder! He likes it because he gets to watch the baby birds. Just don’t use it in a drafty room! When your done it collapses flat for easy storage!
Baby chicks need heat, they cannot regulate their body temp until they grow their feathers.
Skips Pick – He likes the Comfort Brooder, the radiant style heater or heat plate style. Because it more closely mimics what a momma hen does! He also likes it because it saves energy. It uses less than a QUARTER of the energy of a traditional heat source!
Baby Chicks Need higher protein feed just like a puppy. They also need little chick sized feeders because they are so small.
Skips pick for a chick FEEDER – Turbo Feeder it holds a lot so he doesn’t have to fill it frequently and its also easy to fill!
Skips pick for chick supplement – Peck and Grow – – The chicks love it and it has all they need for a great start. Probiotics for good gut health, vitamins and hydration. Great for right when you get your chicks!
Skips pick for a chick waterer – The 1 Liter Waterer baby chick nipple waterer! Its great because the chicks always get clean water! Dirty water is one of the biggest causes of disease in baby chicks!
Skips Pick – Flock Fortress! He likes it because how sturdy it is. It also packs all the great features from large coops into a smaller version! Its made from treated lumber rated safe for playgrounds which means its safe for you birds and will last a long time!
Skips Pick – Walk in Run – 6’ X 9’ He likes it because its big enough for your birds to really get some exercise, its predator proof and he can get into it! Also with the avian flu they are recommending your birds don’t mix with other birds and this does the trick containing them from wild birds!
Skip’s Pick – Hanging Feeder Skip likes it because it fits really well in his smaller coop and its easy to fill and can hang or sit on the coop floor. The biggest benefit it has a feed saver grill that reduces feed loss!! Saving you money!
Skip’s Pick – For traditional waterer is this small Three Gallon Metal Waterer. Fits in his smaller coop and its sturdy.
Skip’s Pick – For hot summer months when you don’t want to run out of water! He picks the Drink Stick and Hose Adapter with cups! Easy for the birds to use and minimal cleaning. Hook it straight to your hose with an adapter!
Skip’s Pick – Printed Egg cartons and an Egg Basket! You have to have something to give away your beautiful eggs and you need to collect them!
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