Posts by ridinglizzard

I put my 6 week old orphingtons with my adult silkies, cochins, wyandottes, bunny, pigeons, and duck, and they all seem to get along just fine.   

What would you recommend for a cold hardy breed of goose.  I am in Northern Canada and have lots of chickens (silkies, cochins, wynadottes, and australorps) and a pekin duck, who all seem to do fine over the winter in my little...

How old of chicken is too old to eat?  Also, can you eat a rooster after they have matured sexually, or do they not taste good?   I have an almost 1 year old bantie silkie who has gotten way too big for his britches and...

We have 6 one week old Australorps...     And 4 Blue or Golden Laced Wyandottes!!     And our Black Bantum Silkie is setting on eggs (due May 8!) and so is our Banty Cochin hen!

I am so upset... This winter mice moved into what i thought was my deluxe pigeon house. I have had my homers in this pigeon loft for 3 years with no problems, but a few months ago mice seem to have moved in and now I can't get them...

My first homers, which I acquired in 2009, had 2008 bands on them.  I kept them in for a month or so, until they started nesting, and then have had an open door policy ever since.  They always came back to me.  In...

We name all of ours.  Mainly because I have 3 kids and they LOVE to name things.  I have white homers though, so most of them look alike... I think that we have used every 'white' name out there (ie. snowball, snowy, yogurt,...

Mine seem content finding their own nesting material from whatever is around: hay, stray, grass, twigs, etc.  They are amazing creatures!

Ok, here are my most recent homer pigeon family:Mom:Dad:Offspring#1 (with expected coloration):Offspring#2 (with surprised coloring.... please explain!!!)ps. Mom's mom had a white body, black beak; Mom's dad had a white body, white...

Wow, this is all really fascinating.  Where can I learn more about colour?  I will take photos of the parents and babies so that you can see more clearly what I am describing.  Thanks!