I hope Christmas was blessed for you! Ours was incredibly quiet, which we often prefer.
Now that the holiday is past, though, I am left at a bit of loose ends of what to do next (DON'T say laundry!). The ground is too wet to till (almost 3 inches just from this past rain!), it is not time to prune, we already did the dormant spray (by the by, if you want a copy of our schedule for pruning, fertilizing, etc various trees, just let us know), etc.
One project I have been working on is choosing our meat and egg chickens. We have our "show chickens", our Japanese Black Tailed Whites, with two separate brooders of chicks that hatched since the day before Thanksgiving.
However, I have been wanting to grow our own meat. We don't use a LOT of eggs, but we eat a huge amount of chicken--in fact it is our main meat (at least for me).
We are going to build another, larger coop and runs that will house our more-meat chickens and our more egg layers (both being dual purpose). For our eggies, we are planning on orpingtons. For our meaties, we have narrowed it down to 3 breeds: Naked Neck Turkens, Langshans, and Sulmtalers. We were going to go with Jersey Giants, but realized that waiting 1.5-2 years for them to get to maturity was going to be ENTIRELY too long :).
So if you have a vote of the three, please let me know :) We have already discarded most other of the more popular breeds (mostly because we want calm roos since we are going to be raising a lot of meat). BUT I am glad to hear what you have to say!
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