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Post by submisive2him on Apr 10, 2008 13:54:41 GMT -5
I know that this may sound silly but please be praying for us. My husband has decided to start raising chickens and selling the eggs. I know that this seems small for some but for our family it is BIG. My husband for a year now has been wanting to find something to do as a family. My dad who lives next to us ( we share a yard ) had chickens for the past few years and we loved them. He did not have to many but a few to get some from fresh eggs for the family. My children use to go in and get the eggs, and they were just fun to have a round. Anyhow, my dad last year decided to get rid of the last chicken that was alive and get out of the chicken phase, and that is where we are taken over.
My husband is wanting to make it a something for the family to do together and if we get enough eggs he wants to put a sign out by the road and try to sell some and go from there. We don't know much about chickens. I know that he is wanting to do it all organic. Sooooo we have started a worm farm and he is wanting to start on some maggots ewwwww.
He also are getting some turkeys and my dad use to have some of them and they were the coolest. At that time, before we built this home, we lived in a trailer on this property and we would wake to stomp, stomp, stomp on our roof. All 5 of the turkeys would be marching along. Or we would go outside and they would be resting on the railing outside of house.
Anyhow, pray for us that this might be something that turns out great for out family, something fun.
Submisive
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Post by braidedrug on Apr 10, 2008 18:55:49 GMT -5
I am in a similar position. In July last year we bought a house, we took over it in September and have been fixing it up. It has a chicken house, we haven't moved in yet though, we go there weekends and things. We have snakes there, one came into the house, but hopefully we have blocked up the hole under the door and hopefully that is all that is needed.
I am getting cold feet about moving, but dh would dearly love to grow vegetables. It is on a double block. I would value your prayers as well.
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Post by tbhas6 on Apr 11, 2008 8:54:17 GMT -5
Submissive, this is not a silly request. Believe me, even though we'd done extensive reading and I'd had some while growing up, when we began raising chickens I did a WHOLE LOT of praying.
It has turned out to be a terrific project for our family. The children love collecting the eggs and chickens really are very easy to care for. We sell our extra eggs which pays for their feed.
tb
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Post by tbhas6 on Apr 11, 2008 8:59:34 GMT -5
Braidedrug,
We will certainly keep your move in our prayers. To help with snake control you may want to consider getting some clay eggs and placing a few in a couple "nests". When the snakes eat the eggs, they can't digest them and die. Also, if the house has been vacant for a while you might need to look into rodent control as snakes usually decide to live near their food source.
Praying for you ... tb
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Post by braidedrug on Apr 13, 2008 5:27:11 GMT -5
Thank you. It may be frogs and lizards that they are after, we have a pond and rocks.
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Post by donna31 on Apr 19, 2008 18:19:09 GMT -5
Good luck with the chicken idea. We had about 28 at one time a couple of years ago so I know a little about the "chicken business." At the price eggs are going for now, you could probably do pretty good with it! We cut our chickens back to about 8 - and then along came a weasel!!! Oh well - we got the weasel just as he was eating our last chicken. Now we have 3 small chicks (we had four but our new puppy played with one and got too rough.) Now, I just need to build myself a new chicken pen as we turned our old one into a goat pen.
I understand how you feel though. We are getting into goats now and I will have to say it is quite scary when you start something new be it animals or gardening or such. We are supposed to have kids at the end of May and I am nervous about it. We are going to bottle feed the females and I am not so sure how to do all that stuff.
Oh - one note about the chicken business - it is a really great idea to invest in a second refrigerator. (Just an older one from an auction or something.) It is really frustrating to try to get things in your house refrigerator and have to manuveur around 12 dozen of eggs!!
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Post by keflavik on Apr 20, 2008 14:22:14 GMT -5
Here's a link to a site that puts out a newsletter and has some really great tips/tricks and plans for chicken coops. Hope you can get something out of it for your new endevours. www.self-sufficient-life.com We want to get some chickens ourselves but have been too busy raising our own!
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