Recent content by neopolitancrazy

yes, sir!

I am so sorry to hear that. Angela

For each line of Dorkings on this continent, I suspect the owners would answer differently in regards to broodiness. In my experience, the Urch line of Silver Gray Dorkings is reliably broody in the spring, if eggs are allowed to collect in the nest, no broodiness if eggs are regularly...

I am not sure who told you that. Both Red and Silver Gray Dorkings have the Duckwing pattern. The cuckoo pattern is seen on Dominiques. Best wishes, Angela

The Dorking is not and never has been an auto-sexing breed, although those breeds do exist. Some strains, (not all!) of Silver Gray Dorkings can be sexed at hatch, (not birth,) by comparing the width of stripes on the chicks' heads. I have never read of any Red Dorking breeders claiming to sex...

Excellently stated!!!!!

... I didn't even barely get cooped when some guy was hounding me about the birds, though...wanted to know if I was selling, when I would have chicks, kept pressing me as to when I may have chicks for selling, etc.   I wasn't interested in selling to him, even if I had plenty of stock to sell. ...

Promoting them as high in omega-3s is heart-healthy, and both educated and uneducated customers usually know that much about nutrition. I would worry that "low cholesterol eggs" would draw in the ignoramuses. (I, personally, hate dealing with the general public on my time off.;)) I once read...

I also planted some salad-type purslane in a run, it was the first thing to disappear.

My chickens also like daylilies, and hybrid purslane, and they dig up anything in loose soil!

Humans REQUIRE cholesterol to be able to form hormones, from thyroid to sex hormones, and to maintain healthy cell membranes. (Damaged cell membranes are the first step in forming atherosclerotic plaques.) Anti-inflammatory fatty acids (mostly the omega-3s,) also help heal damaged cell...

I don't know if chickens eat kudzu, but goats love kudzu, and poison ivy, and wild roses. Angela

yes, last year with my Dorking hen. She spent 2 days in the nest of her choosing before I put her in a nest of my choosing, (still in the same pen,) where she spent one day before moving back to her original nest. Then I moved her to a new pen, and gave her some wooden eggs to sit on, which she...