Kitchen Gardeners

Information

The Pecking Order

Everything chickens! Weather you are a backyad gardener with two or a small farmer with 200 this group is for you. Everything from incubating to butchering and everything in between. Please feel free to join in on the discussions.

Members: 93
Latest Activity: Nov 26

Discussion Forum

PiscesGirl

Freaky Egg! 1 Reply

Started by PiscesGirl. Last reply by Clarence Nov 26.

Clarence

Coop; plans, ideas, or photos 10 Replies

Started by Clarence. Last reply by Clarence Oct 31.

PiscesGirl

Hidden Nest 4 Replies

Started by PiscesGirl. Last reply by PiscesGirl Oct 25.

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of The Pecking Order to add comments!

RawZi Comment by RawZi on November 4, 2009 at 4:48am
Still in the researching stage. How much pasture do chickens need if exclusively fed on pasture? I will have a small yard, and don't plan on them visiting neighbors' yards, as the houses are close together.


Glenn Fletcher Comment by Glenn Fletcher on October 28, 2009 at 3:11am
Hi Lydia
Thanks for your reply. Our cat is not a farm cat but it is not a lap cat either. It is aloof.
I think we will be OK. All i have to do now is to persuade my wife.
Lydia Riedel-Tramsek Comment by Lydia Riedel-Tramsek on October 27, 2009 at 9:47pm
Is your cat well domesticated, loving her humans? Then it's no problem. The cat will not hurt living beings fed by her humans. You even can let cat and chicks alone. But not, if the cat is a rather wild farmers' cat! In this case you have to raise your chicks in a cage without any possibility of contact.
Glenn Fletcher Comment by Glenn Fletcher on October 27, 2009 at 4:28pm
Hi Everyone
I,ve been toying with the idea of getting a few chickens, but we have a cat.
The cat used to kill things when it was younger, but has been OK this summer.
Is it a problem to have chickens when you have a cat?
Clarence Comment by Clarence on October 16, 2009 at 7:54pm
Sandra,

I am glad to hear that life is looking rosey for Rose. I also share your thoughts on using drugs, but sometimes they do help.

Is Rose laying again?
sandra anderson Comment by sandra anderson on October 16, 2009 at 11:41am
Rose the chicken update:
It's been about three weeks since we started the antibiotics and she seems to be doing great!! Although I'm not a big fan of drugs...I'm glad I decided to do it. She is well on her way to full recovery!
RawZi Comment by RawZi on September 13, 2009 at 4:31am
Yeah, I never went to your page, except to comment you back now. Thanks for making the link
Joy Williams Comment by Joy Williams on September 13, 2009 at 1:06am
ok I got the explanation. welcome Rawzi and I'm sorry there was this misunderstanding.That was truly weird.
Joy Williams Comment by Joy Williams on September 13, 2009 at 12:58am
here's rawzi's link

That way you can click on it. Why is it so hard for people to use this image to link?


btw, Rawzi, why do you have MY pictures on YOUR page? It's puzzling everyone.
Michelle W. Flannery Comment by Michelle W. Flannery on August 4, 2009 at 5:06am
We got our first egg three days ago, and another one yesterday. Tiny dark brown eggs, almost round, and smaller than a golf ball! How exciting to see it start, our own eggs, furthering our self-sufficiency. I hope everyone in this group who has chickens but no eggs yet will soon have this same, wonderful feeling of success, and know that you are making the right choices for your families. Good luck!
 

Members (93)

Clarence sandra anderson Katherine Turcotte Michelle W. Flannery Joy Williams David Penelope Chicken Lady PiscesGirl Susan Singley Stuart Millar Suzie O'Connor Andrea Pamela Ragnar Terrie Travers Lydia Riedel-Tramsek Diana JC Pamela Paasche OHearn Megan Louise Riddle Alexa Meisler Ann G. Tabby Cindy Laurie King Darcy P. Debra Voorhorst Pamela Poor Larissa
 
 

KGI's book of the month

Latest Activity

Floating Gardens are 1000 years old or older, but you have put a new spin on it . Great Job!! The owl scares birds, what does the rabbit & duck scare off?!! I love this site ,I am always seeing new & wonderful things.
2 hours ago
Joel LeGrand is now friends with Ingrid Danler and Noeme Judge
2 hours ago
I am waiting to hear if yours is sweet as well !! Be sure and let us know !! When mine is made I just bag and freeze it in meal size for two !! I have more freezer space than pantry space !!
5 hours ago
6 hours ago
9 hours ago
10 hours ago
That is awesome Glenn...thanks for sharing! Inspirational...I have some ideas now!!! Yeah, I think I'll be doing a lot of experimenting next year and a lot of blogging about it =) you never know, like Joel said, I just may get a book out of it along…
13 hours ago
Wow, this is great! I'm attempting to garden on a boat (we liveaboard in the summer) and I was thinking of doing something like this on a small skiff next to it...Thanks for the inspiration!
13 hours ago
Hi Letti Thanks for the info about the contaminated manure. I have not bought manure now for several years in the UK. This was since we had the foot & mouth and BSE scares. I think that municipal compost is your best bet, if you need to say bulk up…
14 hours ago
Hi Kirsti I think the dingy idea seems feasable. Then the plants would be out of the way of day to day activities. Have you seen Margy,s floating garden pictures. Yours would be a variation on that theme.
14 hours ago
16 hours ago
16 hours ago
20 hours ago
20 hours ago
20 hours ago
21 hours ago
21 hours ago
Maggie and Kris Hadisoebroto are now friends
22 hours ago
22 hours ago
23 hours ago

Notes

HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

First type the text you want to appear....  ie  IAN'S PAGE

Then go back and highlight the link text.

Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.

Your browser may intervene and request permission to allow temporary scripting or some similar message.   Allow it and go back and highlight the text again

Continue

Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

You can refer any que

Continue

Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

Continue

Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

Continue

Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

Continue

Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

Continue

Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

Continue

Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

Continue

Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

 

© 2009   Created by Kitchen Gardeners International

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service

Sign in to chat!