Author: Anna & Mark

Chicken photo contest reminder

September 13, 2010 Posts 2 Comments

Silver Grey DorkingsWhen
I sent out an email reminding our past chicken waterer customers that
our 2010
photo contest
deadline is coming up on September 21, the entries came pouring
in.  The photos were wonderful, but many of them also came with
stories that I can’t help sharing with you.  I’ll be regaling you
with customer images and tales over the next few weeks — enjoy!



To get you started, here
are a couple of the most beautiful photos we’ve received so far. 
The top one is from Stuart Liptay, who wrote:


We
have been using the waterers for about a month now and the Dorks have
taken to them nicely.  As you can see from the photos, I’ve
attached the devices to pop bottle caps, so when a bottle becomes
dirty, into the recycling it goes and a fresh one is put up, and the
cap is reused.  Our chickens are Silver Grey Dorkings (an English
heritage breed), and in the photos are Sir Henry Dorking and Miss
Henrietta Dorking.

Hanging chicken waterer

Meanwhile, Jennifer
Wallace sent me several beautiful photos of her son’s flock —
polish/americana, barred rock, buff orphingtons and banties.  I
believe that both of the photos I loved so much are of the banties,
although I’m not positive.

Rooster below a homemade chicken waterer


























Keep those images rolling in!


The
easiest way to make your own chicken waterer is to start with one of
our homemade chicken
waterer kits.

Avian Aqua Miser in the news

September 10, 2010 Posts No Comments

WMMT logoA
couple of months ago, folks from Appalshop/WMMT came out to visit our
farm and interview us about the Avian Aqua Miser.  Despite the
unfortunate fact that we dipped one journalist in the mud of the
alligator swamp, the trio was extremely nice and edited our story into a tight 5 minute piece that you can listen to on
their website.  If you’ve ever wondered how the Avian Aqua Miser
came to be, please check it out!

Hybrid rooster

September 8, 2010 Posts No Comments

Hybrid roosterBack
in the spring, I asked my father to save me some Rhode Island Red eggs
from his flock.  I wanted to try out the breed, and knew that he
had both hens and a rooster that would breed true.



Unfortunately, his flock
was also full of Golden Comet hens, but Daddy and I were
positive that we’d picked out the Rhode Island Red eggs for our brooding
experiment.  It
turns out we were positively wrong!



Take a look at the
result of the experiment — notice how our young rooster has white
mottling on his tail and around his neck?  Clearly, this isn’t a
pure breed Rhode Island Red.  Instead, the genetics of his White
Rock grandmother are showing through.  Nevertheless, I’ve decided
that this cockerel will father next year’s broiler experiment…as long
as he stops pecking at my sandaled feet.


Our homemade chicken
waterer saves hours
of frustration and turns chicken care into a breeze.