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Amy Beth, he has a rose comb. The bantams' combs look very slightly different in texture than the large fowl's do, at least to me. They're very pretty, and have a good shape. The only chickens I have left are six bantam Partridge Wyandottes.

Amy Beth, my Andalusians were good layers in the heat, but they did drop off in the winter.

I'm having health issues and my husband is getting tired of caring for my birds, so I need to reduce my flock some more. Is anyone interested in two mature toms, a Black Mottled and a Blue Palm, both from Porters? I also have six half-grown turks that show black mottled but may have some Blue...

Amy, my ducks are huge (Jumbo Pekins) but the ones that don't just drop eggs everywhere lay in an old plastic dog house. They can get in and turn around, and I can just lift the roof to get the eggs. My runner likes to make her own nest, and has claimed the whole chicken coop while she's...

You see a lot of game birds for sale on craigslist. But I went as far as getting the application to raise them domestically, and one of the things they want to know is where you got your stock. I didn't have any yet, but I imagine it would be pretty hard to document the birds you had if you got...

Pheasants, like Valleys and Mountains, are a regulated game bird, and to raise them you need a permit from DFG, and from US Fish and Wildlife for migratory birds (which these are not.) And they require some serious fencing, I believe. I've never got into them. I was just keeping the quail to...

Amy, I bought my quail for eating, but then I discovered that Coturnix dont taste much like wild quail. I don't care for the meat all that much. We eat the eggs; they're pretty good layers, but they're more of a novelty. I'll be getting rid of mine soon, as I have enough to feed without added...

Ha ha, no! But I have been known to show people how to do it themselves now and then. It's really not all that hard. I am self taught from threads on here, but I do have a lot of experience butchering and processing other things, from college and from hunting. I don't have a plucker or anything...

Spoiled, but it's not a blood-and-guts photo, just the finished product: I didn't have anyone with me to take pictures this time.

A little more, but not a ton. My usual scalding pot caused most of the hold up. Perfectly fine for chickens, but too small for turkeys or ducks. And the feathers were a little harder, but the body cavity was bigger and easier to get into than the little cockerels I process when I have extra that...

Amy Beth, my non-hatchery Wyandottes were a little slower to POL than a hatchery bird would be, maybe 22 weeks? They laid about every other day, and the heat didn't seem to bother them much. They produced a much bigger carcass than any of the hatchery birds I ever had too. The best layers that I...

Kim, how big do those Guinea hogs get? I raise a hog or two every couple of years for meat (I have two right now). Sometimes I do lambs instead. Tankgirl, and Mamahen5, welcome! I grew up in Livermore and live in the Central Valley now, so I know where both of you are coming from!

Well, that's true, it is. That spot on the end of its tail is typical for bobcat. I've seen them with and without a ton of spots.

Bobcat. We don't have Lynx here.

There is a lot of stuff the kids can do without ever touching an animal. Poultry wasn't even one of my son's first projects. Shooting Sports was actually the one he stuck with the longest, but there's photography, public speaking, sewing, woodworking; all sorts of stuff.

I hate to hear that. My son learned so much from 4-H, and it was such a good experience overall. He's moved on to High School now, and I think he's done with it, but if he's not, we'll still do it. We'll just do a better job of disinfecting our feet and equipment, and keep the show birds...

Didn't realize you had a hound. What kind? Do you hunt him? No, I begged off from Cheryl's. I'm still paranoid about bringing things home, so limiting my own exposure to other poultry operations is part of that. Not that I think there would be anything there, just my new policy. I will probably...

We're at 99 already, supposed to get to 106. I've got a sprinkler going for the birds and the pigs. The dogs are funny, and not particularly fond of baths normally. But right now they're lining up to be rinsed off several times a day!

That Orpington on the right and the Marans next to him are cockerels. The other Orps look like pullets from here, and I can't see the other Marans very well (but you said you had two cockerels of that breed, right?)

You know I don't have any at the moment, but I always had more than one rooster at a time in my layer flock. The ones that were raised together were the best at getting along, but adding new ones usually worked out too. The nasty ones usually were aggressive to people, so they didn't stick...