well...
i bought my house which has 4 1/2 acres...
eventually i plan on fencing the entire 4 1/2 acres, but for right now aproximatly 1/4 an acre is fenced with 5ft tall feild fencing...i also dont let my dogs out unsupervised.
i obviously own the house so no worries about landlords opinions, i...
black australorp hen
aproximatly a year and a bit old
got her as a day old chick
no new birds in the flock since we got them all at a day old form the same place.
they have free acess to crushed oyster, get safe veggie scraps (corn, cabbage, ect...no tomatoes garlic onions or potatoe peelings)...
im plannign for the future and want list...
and one of my plans is a "colorful pet flock", mostly EE's as i love them:) it wont be huge, mplanning on putting the girls under an EE roo, but would like to add a hen or 2 with a good chance of becomming broody
i know that breed doesnt = broodiness...
i never thought about keeping guinea, because some i worked with at the zoo put me off...
but over time ive realized it was simply a lack of knoweledge on my part...
see id never been around guiea before and then they told me there 'just like chickens" and they are realy not.
now i have a...
ok folks, we have a tick problem here in CT.
my blak dsh had advantage put on last month when she was spayed, she was indoors for 2 weeks after that and then i had to start letting her out again (belive you me, i can handle complaining but she takes it beyond complaining, heck she makes siamese...
well yeah...i guess. ive been around ducks, i knwo how to care for them...but ive never had my own...
and i live to plan ahead...wont be getting them untill probably next spring...
but im planning on having a little mixed homestead.
duckies will primarily be egg layers, but hardey forgarers...
im planning ahead for my farm...
and id LOVE to have a couple of healthy hives to help with polination in the orchards/berry patch/flower beds and for of course the bonuses of honey and wax...
but im allergic to bee stings!
would i be able to keep and tend bee hives as long as i had sting...
so in november a couple of our girls started dropping feathers...
figured it was a moult and by the end of december 2 of the 3 girls that were looking scruffy looked perfectly normal again...
but one of our girls isnt faring so well on the re-growth.
Sam is a black australorp and she is...
JACK!
jack is now a 6 1/2 week olf Severe macaw who is an absolute love of my life. hes still on 3 feedings a day and is very much a baby (i have many years experience handfeeding baby birds) and is my first ever Macaw.
ive had him a week and a half and must say...im Absolutly inlove. i didnt...
ill have to get some pictures once hes settled in...
but the day before yesterday i added a new little one to our odd little family...
a lineolated parakeet...
hes insanely cute and while were still in the "i dont know you" stage hes already twirping away and making all kinds of chattering...
i know not exactly the right time in the season, but ive been looking since last winter and other than buying from a hatchery, im not finding anything.
im looking for buff, african or pilgrim gosslings. preferably 2-3.
either local to ffc CT or will pay shipping if the price on the babies is...
ok so i used to work in a zoo, so im all about "enrichment"
what can i add to the run to add more for the chickens.
would a wide sisal rope make a fun perch/swing? how about some bigger old logs that are starting to rot?
obviously a dust bath...
banches for perches mabe?
right now in there...
i was going to get multiple geese anyway as i know they go better with other geese for company and was going to go with a straight run tufted roman and a buff...
however after reading how there considred "critical" im considering just getting a pair of buffs.
i love what ive read online about...
looking for pilgrims, am buffs, blues or lavenders, roman tufted.
i dont have the facilities to hatch my own, and im only looking for 2-3 babies.
im in ct and willing to pay for shipping...
im looking for an asap.
does ANYONE have any that theyd be willing to ship, i dont have the facilities to incubate and there impossible to find without some huge small order fee (i just cant justify spending $50 a gosling for geese that are priced at $15 a peice.)
its so frustrating, i realy want to have them here...
looking for 2 goslings,
interested in pilgrims, saddlebacks, colored sebbies, or buffs.
not worried about sex.
would prefer local, but willing to ship.
having the hardest time finding babies!
can you help?
ok...so we purchased extras so wed have a choice...
and now were not sure which were keeping lol.
theres 3 easter eggers and 3 silver laced wyandottes and a gold laced wyandotte that we need to decide on.
well be keeping 1 silver laced...
silver laced 1:
Silver Laced 2:
or Silver Laced 3...
better pictures MABE lol.
(i sooo need a better camera...or a "freeze" gun lol.)
anyway...
compared to...
(the other girls from the same batch, all are about 10 days old)
body wies ronny is the same size...
head seems "slimmer" but otherwise body-wise, same size and shape.
the...
48 hours after being sent out.
2 dont look so good.
one of the little partridge rocks was DEAD...no joke...no heart beat no nothing...
but something told me i couldnt give up on her so i readied an eye dropped or sugar water and poly-vi-sol and put her directly under the heat lamp...
after...
so last week my order from healthy chicks and more shipped on wednesday, and arrived thursday...
this week my new batch of chickies shipped wednesday...but did NOT arrive this morning.
ive been up since 4am sooo excited...
nothing...
so at 5am i called (i didnt managed to get in there...