I haven't been on BYC site in a while, because I haven't been getting email updates for my subscribed threads like this one.
I'm so sorry you lost PL. Has the flock acted much differently since the passing of their beneficent leader?
Your duckling photos make me smile as usual :)
What is going on in their little turkey brains? I'm glad you were able to capture this odd moment. And it is nice that Pearl the hen can hang out with the turkeys to avoid getting bullied.
Sorry the flock is on lock down. But you still got some cute photos.
I just found out about the bird flu outbreak in Tennessee, and looked it up. So far it sounds localized, and hopefully it will just be a limited outbreak.
Aw, I know how you feel, pattyhen. I check in on my favorite threads at least once a week, and this one is at the top of my list. Let's hope Johnn is just really busy
Those are some of my favorite pics over the last year, too
The three hens are starting the new year out right, thanks to you.
So I entered a photo and video of Sir Cluckalot (the rooster in my avatar pic) in a Purina Facebook contest, that is won with LIKES. So if this link works and you...
Gobble, gobble, cluck, quack Wishing all a Happy New Year
Check it out, I can enlarge the emojis on my microsoft laptop by enlarging font size with the BYC reply box options! I hope everyone is as easlily ammused as I am.
Pearl Chicken bliss!
So your turkeys are bred for the giant breasts and could eat until they could barely move like a turkey version of the Cornish chicken? Your heavy turkeys couldn't fly away even if the wanted to. But the wild turkeys who live around here can fly and roost in trees : )
Your chickens adapt quickly to the snow!
We had our first snow of the season here today, but the hens are lucky that ground is still too warm for it to really accumulate. At the beginning of winter, my chickens don't like getting their feet in the snow, but they get used to it after a while.
Beautiful snowy pics. I'm glad that Pearl and Crystal's feathers have filled in before the winter. And it looks like boss hen, PL will finish her moult soon be as fluffy as ever-ready to rule over a winter wonderland.
That is a great photo of Crystal! FREEDOM!!!
BTW, I think that is a painted turtle on the log in the photo I posted. I rarely see them close up, because they don't come to the shore much. But they like to climb on to logs and grassy out croppings in the wetland to sun themselves.
That angle is GREAT for that selfie with a few of the flock.
Crystal is too funny!
Here are a couple of pics of wild ducks that hang out on the wetland where I live.