and I feel old 
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BarredBuff said:16 Chicks with more pipping still
never had meat type birds but a few rescues, and as heard, mine at least didnt hardly scratch, but im not an expert on them by any means.. my layers had to be confined, as they feather footed and not, were horrible scratchers and diggers. though the few black copper kettle marrians i saw and one i had for a while and other feather footers didnt seem as bad, but they were more show and dual purpose i guess and not nerotic production layers. my dual purpose birds were not bad diggers comparatively, and my game hans and even mostly roos never dug anything up badly. just my two cents of experience compared to some having much more on BYC.. lol the production layers werent real bright so did better confined moslty to the tractors to dig and such and werent the best foragers, though they have dug their way out accidentally and had one burry itself, but they make great fertilizer and tillers and weeders for a new tractor sized garden area, and in mean time you get eggs while they do all the hard work of turning a barren hard to work and even rocky spot, into rich black soil perdect for gardening, just add your compost ect directly to the middle and put up barrier to not let it and everything get flung out of area. i grew such good everything and some that the soil in East TN is supposedly impossible to grow in, after using the chicken coop compost ect garden method.ninny said:
Lot's of different ways to go with this one, comparisons work best (if you have a friend that could supply you some finished product):ninny said:
