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Chickens Make the Best Garbage Disposals

By Mavis Butterfield on June 27, 2016 · 3 Comments
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lettuce

I think one of the things I miss the most about our old place was being able to walk out the back door and toss nearly all our kitchen scraps to the chickens. All the produce that was harvested past it’s prime, all the odds and ends, all the carrot tops and excess leafy greens.

chickens eating lettuce

Luckily though, there’s Mrs. HB’s chickens. 😉

rhode island red chicken

On saturday The Girl and I popped by to visit Lucy’s “babies” and my have they grown.

light brahma pullet

The light brahma we thought was a roo… well it’s HUGE. And at 14 weeks the jury is still out. Mr. HB thinks it’s a roo and I’m leaning that way but I’m still a little unsure. I tried to get a closer look/better picture to share but the bird didn’t want any part of it.

The feet are enormous, the HB’s say it’s the most aggressive out of the flock {even more so than the other birds} but the wattle and comb are not as pronounced as other roosters I’ve seen and the tail feathers are still a toss up. Our last rooster, Pablo started to sing at around 18 weeks…. so I guess we’ll know soon enough.

Have you ever had a light brahma chicken before? Apparently the breed is a really good layer, especially in cold weather climates.

~Mavis

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Comments

  1. Shannon says

    June 27, 2016 at 10:48 am

    That brahma sure is looking more roo-ish by the day! Both my brahma ladies are quite nice and good layers. You may have to wait for a cocka-doodle-doo to make sure, but most brahmas usually don’t have exceptionally large combs–neither of my girls’ are very big and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with anything more than what I would say was a “small” comb. Good luck!

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  2. Phyllis says

    June 27, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    I’m so jealous of anyone who has chickens. I feed all my scraps to the worms, but they aren’t exactly cute and fluffy.

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  3. Sarah says

    June 29, 2016 at 2:48 am

    My parents have white Brahmas- probably 30 or so at this point- on their farm. They are all freakishly huge. And ornery. So much that they tend to gives the horses a hard time. A lot of people raise them for meat. There isn’t much difference in height between them and my parents beagle. Their roosters though… are distinctively smaller than the hens. And all have smaller combs then the females- which are still small.

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