Maybe an allergy to the jacket?
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Hello! I have a blue cochin hen, I call her, very originally, Blue
She has a very sweet and silly personality, and of all the hens I have, she is the most fun to watch run I call her Li'l Lotta at times. I just adore her. She is just a Big R/hatchery girl, obtained from a local couple only a month or so before she began to lay, and I am half-secretly hoping she goes broody next spring so I can get her some eggs to hatch (no rooster here at this time). Do you have a favorite color?
Hello! I have a blue cochin hen, I call her, very originally, Blue
She has a very sweet and silly personality, and of all the hens I have, she is the most fun to watch run I call her Li'l Lotta at times. I just adore her. She is just a Big R/hatchery girl, obtained from a local couple only a month or so before she began to lay, and I am half-secretly hoping she goes broody next spring so I can get her some eggs to hatch (no rooster here at this time). Do you have a favorite color?Yes, my focus is primarily Golden Laced Bantams, but I have some black bantams available (3-4 months old) out of a breeding project working on Blue Laced Reds. There is a link to my website with pictures in my sig line.
Boy, Wendell, kind of brings it home, huh? I hope her passing was as gentle as possible given the circumstances. My sympathies.
Hope your brother manages in the storm. We have been watching coverage of the swinging crane in NYC among other things. Scary. My folks and some of the rest of my family are in NY but upstate and not in the path, although I did warn my mother to keep the phones charged just in case.
Will there be a time you will process chickens for those of us with no facilities, for a price? I have thought a few times about getting broilers, but until I re-align Bob's thinking to accept that if we eat chicken, it is better to eat that which we KNOW has been fed well and raised kindly, I will hold off. He is still at the stage of preferring arm's length eating. He has learned a lot about chickens in the last few months, and a lot of it has been surprising to him, I think especially how absorbing they can be, and how utterly delightful and entertaining. On one hand, only having 7 has been an easy introduction, as he has learned to tell most of them apart, which he originally thought impossible; on the other hand, he has learned to tell them apart and he would notice one missing
He is an old softie when it comes to animals, and openly grieved when he accidentally ran over a cottontail with his tractor. It's hard to fault a person for feeling so strongly about living things, but I am hopeful that at some point he will realize the value of eating what we raise as opposed to trusting a large conglomerate to do the right thing by its livestock (which we know they don't). I consider it a common attitude. We have grown detached from our food sources as a society. Connecting what we eat with how it is raised is important. We will get there.
Did anyone else get the promo from Meyer's today, free shipping on white broilers if you order 25 due to Hurricane Sandy cancellations? Pretty good deal - $1.29 each.
Very excited to announce our first eggs! I found 2 small brown eggs in the coop on Sunday. Picked up a cold egg, brought it inside...went back to the coop an hour later and found another one, this one warm. My first fresh, warm egg! My girls are 25 weeks old.
Eggs on my counter. Sorry - not sure why it's rotating my photo!
Eggs on my counter. Sorry - not sure why it's rotating my photo!
Hey guys, I'm probably still considered a newbie, as far as past posters go. Only posted twice, maybe three times? With wsmith, who's postings have changed my want of Barred Rocks to Doms. I keep up with you all every night, constantly learning (and laughing) but you're all so into your flocks I feel like I'm betraying this thread by looking at my flock as "food" only. And you all seem like such great long-time friends, I didn't want to just barge in with my ramblings.
I started raising RIRs fifteen years ago and switched to BRs, then Javas, which didn't do well in our Colorado winters; not to mention they had no meat on them when butchered no matter how much feed and kitchen scraps they got. Tried the Leghorns, which was like raising over-sized white roadrunners. Nasty buggers! Now I'm back to BRs, with a few cochin roosters from a bad purchase this past summer. I like the heritage birds for the historical value, like my Narragansett turkeys (I also love America history). My garden follows suit with heirloom vegetables, some dating back to the 1600s. Now, through this thread, I see that Doms fit in better than my BRs, since BRs originally come from a mix of Doms and a couple other bird breeds. So thank you, wsmith, for making me do the research and rethinking my flock.
I started raising RIRs fifteen years ago and switched to BRs, then Javas, which didn't do well in our Colorado winters; not to mention they had no meat on them when butchered no matter how much feed and kitchen scraps they got. Tried the Leghorns, which was like raising over-sized white roadrunners. Nasty buggers! Now I'm back to BRs, with a few cochin roosters from a bad purchase this past summer. I like the heritage birds for the historical value, like my Narragansett turkeys (I also love America history). My garden follows suit with heirloom vegetables, some dating back to the 1600s. Now, through this thread, I see that Doms fit in better than my BRs, since BRs originally come from a mix of Doms and a couple other bird breeds. So thank you, wsmith, for making me do the research and rethinking my flock.
Here are some pictures of my hail netting that we used over the garden in the summer. We are also using it over the chicken run and it has been great for ventilation but also allows some shade and water to pass through, also really inexpensive
I don't think so because they've been wearing these jackets off and on for about 6 months. But, stranger things have happened with my allergies, so it's hard to tell. I'm starting to see the same signs in a couple of the other girls. They're all of a sudden losing and growing new feathers on their faces, so I do think its a mini molt. I'm taking a wait and see approach while they still seem happy and normal otherwise.
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