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By: scratch'n'peck
Posted 09/25/11 • Last updated 12/09/12 • 1330 views • 9 comments

 

Go to my favorite thread if you have a "smart chicken" story to share:  www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=549678&p=1

 

If you want to read a funny and touching book get Enlsaved by Ducks go to http://www.bobtarte.com/index.html

 

   
  Scratch'n'Peck

cochin and orpington roos

Our Red, ready to lay

 

Colin and his 3 inch spurs

 

The bachelor roo coop

 

 

Old English Game

 

Some of our swans

Sidney with his cygnets (They have grown into fine yearlings now)

 

 Lucy goosey    (Pilgrim goose)                                          

    

Linus (pilgrim gander)

  

4-5 months old, the awkward age

  

Lucy and Sabrina sharing a nest

Linus (Pilgrim) and Basil (Sebastapol)

 

 Runner ducks and Swedish Blue ducks 

 

 

 

Showgirls (Silke and Siegfried)

 

 

 

Wild Turkeys

 

Wild sandhill crane

 

Pair of Trumpeter swans who visited the pond

(She was marked by DNR probably, because they are trying to increase this native swans' numbers)

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Winston RIP

 

 Watch a great chicken and cat video not mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obQIdffSQUk  

Comments (9)

blessedchick 1/12/12 at 8:20am
Your swans (and the rest of your feathered friends) are BEAUTIFUL!!! I have 3 mutes that are the lights of my life...:) Where did you find that feeder for them? I've been trying to figure out a way to efficiently feed them...
Gorgeous critters!
scratch'n'peck 1/13/12 at 4:17pm
Thank you, we got the feeder at a pet supply place on line (I will have to double check which one.) We had a plastic one before from Tractor Supply, but the squirrels chewed through it. Every now and then a squirrel gets trapped in the metal one.
ladrholman 2/5/12 at 7:58am
beautiful birds and wonderful looking property!! A bird paradise!!
Lamar Estate 2/19/12 at 4:18pm
I LOVE it! I wish I had all those wonderful birds...or at least you as a neighbor!
Shobe Biz 3/26/12 at 8:59pm
Beautiful photos!!
dragonchild 4/15/12 at 12:37pm
Wonderful photos! You are surrounded by lovely birds, domestic and wild!
Do you find the swans mean? I've always heard they are, but they are SOOO beautiful! Do your exercise you (running from them)?
scratch'n'peck 4/15/12 at 12:54pm
Swans are not particularly friendly, but mostly they get out of my way except for our Sidney Swan during nesting season. Fortunately swans are not very fast on land. But we do need to contend with Sidney when it is time to pinion the cygnets.
dragonchild 4/15/12 at 1:06pm
I can't imagine dealing with a recalcitrant bird of that size! I think my broody hens are pretty formidable! Lol.
But they ARE so beautiful! Worth the exercise in nesting season.
CrazyChookz 6/15/12 at 5:11pm
Lovely photographs! I wish I had swans!
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