Recent content by Tigress

I was secretly a huge fan of that realistic chicken gaming website that was in development back in like, err... was it June they started making it? Anyways, I used to send PM's every week to see what they were doing and if I could help and then one day they just... stopped responding and...

Quote: Book will be titled "Betraying Mother Venus" It won't be out until probably 2011. We are going to hold onto the edited book until around April of next year-- goal is to get it out on my grandmother's birthday. She is an artist, and isn't going to be with us for more than a few years...

I've got a juvenile white silkie hen... and if there is one thing she likes during this Texas heat it is WATER. She loves being sprayed gently with the hose and splashing in small puddles. I've even taken her in the shower with me once and she had a ball. So she was panting this afternoon (I...

Quote: Thank you so much for the suggestion and it will be considered. I am just so used to writing about humans I must have forgotten about that. I am writing this to test the waters of my 'writing about chickens' ability. I also realized from your post that I made a bad mistake that will...

This is just a little fic-let I wrote about some of my hatchery birds. The style is watered down from the way I normally write so most can understand it and not just adults. Anyone want me to continue? It was fun writing. Don't steal this, it is my property and creation. It...

I LOVE the eighth pic of the little one drinking the water! So cute! Thanks for sharing and I hope they all thrive! I love the little chicks-- they remind me of those things from Mario Kart, the red ghost looking things with the white mask, just different colors! I don't know how I made that...

Quote: Yes, I am in the US and I am hoping to get true Chocolate birds.

If I used a Barred Rock I would get sex-linked offspring, right? I suck at understanding the sex-linked genes for some reason. But if they were sex-linked it would be SO much easier. Could someone walk me through what I would get if I used a Barred Rock roo vs a Barred Rock hen? In both...

You know those swirly milk chocolate/white chocolate hershey kisses? I was eating some of those while checking my other thread and then it came to me... I want to try to make Barred Chocolate Orpingtons! I'd have to import half of the parents, though, and manage to keep some Chocolate...

As suggested by someone on my other thread, I am creating a survey to see what people would want if I imported birds from Europe, because I have realized it would be quite foolish to import birds that no one wanted. I will limit myself to a maximum of ten breeds in the first few years, if I even...

*sneaks Chocolate and Lemon Cuckoo Orps into USDA* Pssh, I was just going to import these breeds for fun, but now you say people will go nuts if I have Chocolate Orps...? Very tempting... As for the Barnies and Brabanters, I was thinking of having Crele, Double Laced Barnevelders (new...

I am one of the most determined people you will ever meet. After almost three years of trying to get my ideas for my book out into the public, finally someone agreed to listen and now it is in the process of being finished and edited. This situation is no different. Although I may be young, I am...

I was SO bored that I downloaded the Sketchup from Google and designed a Japanese Temple-ish coop. I had NO IDEA how to get the roof slanted while connecting to the downwards arches, so that is something you'll have to figure out if you decide to use this I left the 'window areas' uncovered...

I was checking out a Dutch chicken website and translating it using an online translator, and everything seems to be going smoothly until I read "bearded small potatoes." The Dutch word for bantam I believe is something like "kriel", and when translating it back to English it comes up as "small...

I have this cat breeding computer game, and that is what got me into genetics and crossbreeding. I know it sounds stupid, but it is pretty fun. It teaches you to set a goal and cull heavily based on what you want this new breed to look like. My goal was: Calico pattern, long hair, lynx-type ears...