--- On Thu, 12/18/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Hatching Round 2
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:45 PM
> bobf wrote:
> > I guess I thought you limited them to a couple of
> rounds of hatching
> > per year.
>
> I only have one, somewhat broody hen at present. She only
> wants to go
> broody in the Spring. She's not as good as Rob's
> Maran<g>. That is why
> I have borrowed an incubator, and since it is not mine and
> I have to
> return it in a few months, I am hatching anything I can get
> my hands on.
>
>
>
> Couldn't you just leave (once you have enough hens
> and
> > roosters) them to do their adult business on their own
> and raise and
> > hatch their chicks, on their own, and soon you would
> have a hundred
> > chickens running all over the place and you just grab
> several per
> > week to clean and eat?
>
> To do that, I would have to allow 100% free ranging, which
> I used to do,
> but can no longer do due to multiple 'neighborhood'
> dogs that are
> chicken killers.
> But yeah, that is the best of all options, right there,,,it
> is just hard
> to do here and now.
>
>
>
> --
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> Lewis & Clark
> expedition is that it was the first documented trip in
> history where men
> asked a woman for directions and followed them, allowing
> them to arrive
> at their destination.
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