Recent content by Indyshent

Long time, no see, everybody! :frow We're finally getting into a house! :yesss: Looking to close toward the end of April. Moving into Bedford, IN. Will be in a little old house on a postage stamp yard and will immediately have to put up a fence because we've still got our pet cow, Ursa (j/k...

Ah, but the coating takes time, energy and resources! For this reason, the darker the egg, the fewer of them will be laid/year! The longer the egg spends in the hen, the more coating might be applied. This is half the reason why eggs are darker at the beginning of the season for dark egg laying...

Cull her. Don't take chances with neurotic behavior. Some birds have OCD, basically. It's not always a boredom or nutritional thing, and even if it is in some instances, bad habits are hard to train out (when it's possible at all), you don't want her weak genes messing up your breeding lines or...

All brown eggs are like that. Shell color is either white or blue, but brown is just a coating that can go over the outside of the egg. Different breeds and species apply varying degrees of coating and even different types of coating. Brown eggs aren't brown on the inside of the shell, and green...

You know, Ursa might be able to help with that, too. *wink*wink*

Looks like Sadie and the cat are going to my parents. Ursa may be moving to the postage stamp apartment with us. My husband seems to think she'll be fine there, but I think it's a cruel nightmare for a dog as big and energetic as her. She's going to be bored and lonely out of her mind. I've...

Turkey hens always seem to be in short supply. Have you tried offering them for sale or trade? Turkey boys can be hard to rehome, like roosters, but hens lay the most delicious eggs I've tasted. You could probably find someone willing to trade extra boys (which are getter for eating) for your...

Oh grief, @Faraday40, if I'd known you were looking for a dog... We are having a really hard time right now. DH has sold the house out from under us, our nicer car was totaled by a drunk who ran off, we're going to have to move into a dinky apartment, the kids are moving in with my in-laws...

Ugh. Yard feels extra empty without the birds. Rodents are suddenly crazy here. Its been all-out war against mice--despite having a cat and two dogs. Thought about getting into some nice mouse - eating descendents of T-Rex again, but nobody exactly breeds chickens to kill mice. I do recall my...

"Well, what do we have *here*? I do trust that I'm not *interrupting* anything." "Ugh, what *are* you wearing? *That* blouse with *those* slacks, and after Labor Day, no less!" "What do you mean I wasn't invited to this gala? Apologize or I shall quit this establishment in a huff." "Surely...

#1 Definitely looks Royal Palm. Might get odd coloring later, but I wouldn't bet on that. Could go either way from that picture, but probably a guy. #2 looks more like a guy to me, based mostly on posture and how it's regarding the camera. Girls sometimes adopt that posture if they're feeling...

@faraday I don't think that looks like split wing. Wait and see how the feathers grow in. Split wing is the absence of a feather between the two feather sets (those closest and those farthest from the body). Your boy just seems to have an odd growth pattern for the new big boy feathers. That...

Nope. No one has seen her since the 4th (or will admit if they have).

Still no sign of Pancake. Worried sick, and that's not helping anything.

Pray for Pancake. She was missing this morning. Walked around the neighborhood but couldn't find her. Still hoping she comes back or starts calling so I can find her.