Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I had to look up brabanters as I never heard of them before. They look like their mother has been around lol. Like a mix of many breeds. I have to go read up on them.

I am wondering if anyone has some suggestions. I am making ginger bread men, it asks for one forth cup of shortening but I only have butter, I have tried to substitute butter for shortening before and it doesn't work if I use the same amount. Should I use more or less butter? Any suggestions are wel...

Lol, it's just so sad that this little rhyme speaks to me!

What do we want!?!
Animal rights!!!
When do we want it!?!
After the barbecue!!!

I had a post on PSO about leghorns etc getting a bad wrap because of white eggs. There is no problem with white eggs. Myself personally I don't raise white egg layers because my costumers want brown eggs, same with people who want chicks, they always stress that they want brown or green egg layers, ...

I'm going to say I "think" both are roosters. At only 8 weeks I would put money down on the rose comb being a rooster for sure. My Wyandott pullets at four and a half months don't have that much red in their combs. The other I am pretty confident is a rooster as well but don't eat it or something be...

Actually WLLady you made me feel better, I lost my oldest at seven and her daughter at five this summer. I wondered what I did wrong since some have made it close to ten before. Robbie, no I would say this hen (standard Cochin) was easy going, I think what is part of the problem is two older hens ar...

Wow! That's just crazy about WLLady losing all your birds. I heard there were problems I didn't know it was that bad. Imagine a barn of ten thousand and a bad lighting storm comes through! Robbie welcome to the joys of farming, this kind of annoying thing will happen over and over. I didn't know the...

One thing that I don't like about older hens is how it can become harder to keep them just because they get so cranky with each other. For instance in my pens of young birds, everyone piles onto the perch and are happy to snuggle up together. On the other hand, in a pen of older birds, I just watche...

I think that is what you get when you cross a goat with Donald Trump.