Recent content by Stumpfarmer

That was me, and the site is http://www.fabricdepot.com/

Oh, yeah- poor Bluebelle is just now fully covered, and all of the Hamburgs were pretty much naked starting in late August. And Anni-Frid spent the last week looking like a baby parrot, which is a sad thing indeed.

Not right now, both of the hens are in moult. I'm just now getting eggs from the others who started moult much earlier. I'd post pics of Anni Frid, who looks ridiculous with her whole neck in pinfethers, but it would be wrong to make fun of the ailing.

Every time I see that photo I like the color scheme better. I can understand why you want to get shed of the less than SOP animals; I'm spending way too much time staring at the baby bantams and trying to figure out which cockerel to keep, since Deary doesn't have a sufficiently erect tail...

I'd intended to put up a picture of the other two d'Anvers at my house earlier but the weather has demanded all my attention lately. These two are from a late-May incubator hatch where he came out of the tiniest egg and she had to be helped a bit when she rolled her egg close to an air leak and...

Predictably enough, this is the morning that the heavy lifting part of the past three days kicked me quite literally in the tailbone. I still have to go do everything I always do, but today I've got the extra added attraction of not being able to stand up straight, and the fun of one knee that...

Well, that was not the most fun weekend ever, was it? The chickens are all severely displeased with my management of the weather, that's for sure.

The large animal stuff is meant as a pour-on, so it's absorbed through the skin; the point of putting it in the neck-skin is so they can't ingest any. Eprinex, which is a next-generation Ivermectin class parasiticide doesn't have any egg withdrawal period. (I'm waiting for a timer to bing so I...

I use DE when I make up nest boxes and have had nothing but good come of it. (Clarifications after seeing Matt's objections, and I'd reply to them but can't find the post with my google-strained eyeballs) I mix DE in the first layer of nesting materials, and then put another layer over that so...

Thanks! That's another one that hasn't shown up on the first three pages of google results, which is when my eyeballs fell out yesterday. I wish I was rich enough to get a hundred foot roll of double-wall corrugated polyurethane, which other than being over a thousand dollars after you add tax...

I'd rather take things out at night, is all: less stress and all. I'm stuck here today, Apprentice is working until 4pm and I may have to be here through 6pm anyway because of toilet installation. It's good that my sister is getting better, since the Apprentice got hired for fast food on the...

I didn't think you had any left; I'll have to figure out how to get to Carnation, or the person who wants the chicken will. PM me an email address?

I've been looking for a Marans pullet for several months now; I can't seem to get just one, nor any females. I seriously need to get your Splash girls to you- except I don't dare touch the plastic on the hoop house until I've got plastic to replace it and getting them out involves opening part...

I actually like the Self Blue girl in the center best; I'll probably only be keeping her and a Porcelain cockerel and the rest will go back to Kristen. The Mille Fleur pullet is OK, too. That will give me two breeding pens of three individuals each- a Splash Quail male over a quail and blue...

Haven't added new photos to this part of the world in too long: the Barbu d'Anvers babies, not so babyish anymore. I'll probably only be keeping two- all the Porcelain or possibly Isobel Columbians are cockerels.