Thanks @Trish44! I actually used a social media outsourcing service (friend who owes me a favor) to post an ad on Facebook. I think he’s pretty familiar with the rules on all the various small animal swapping groups. 🤑🤫
Yep, @Snarflogus, whoever they are, they look like the types who would be...
Good ideer. I’ll start checking around a bit more. In recent years the prevalence of good old fashioned bulletin boards seem to have declined quite precipitously... And because I’m a curmudgeon, I blame Facebook 😛
Here are a few more photos of some birds with whom I’ve hung out with.
Thanks Snarflogus! ☺️
I’ve alway heard about these poultry auctions but have never been to one. Do people typical post about them in advance in this thread?
Hey y’all. I’m not new to chickens, BYC, or to Kansas, but gosh, I haven’t posted here in years.
So not long ago I lost this guy to a age and an illness with a rapid onset—mostly age however. In the months preceding his death I had re-homed his offspring. I’m not sure of the specific breed...
Here are pictures of the family of free ranging birds I will be adopting from, the first four photos were taken by their caretaker before they moved in. I'm not sure if they are actually chickens and not some bird he managed to domesticate from the wild
Young rooster.
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Chickens are cool but I'm really passionate about field mycology. Identifying wild mushrooms can be challenging but quite rewarding in a nerdy sort of way. Below you will see a handful of some of my mushroom photos.
The basket above features Lactarius indigo and Cantharellus lateritius, the...
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He really does crow like that, we just don't hear it as suchnot that I want you to pee your pants and run... but that would have been fun to add to the video.
I have a slight problem that has more to do with the behavior cats than chickens, and I'm curious if this is common. We have a population of barn cats and so far this spring three litters of kittens have been born. All three of the mother cats have birthed their kittens in nesting boxes that...
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Just great. You know, between taking them to soccer practice, piano lessons, art classes, their L.A.R.P. club meetings, I just don't have time to think.
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This guy does on occasion try to go after the other two roosters here but they always run; however, they are not game breeds. I think providing them with plenty of space helps (a luxury we are able to provide), the competing roosters have their own territory. Fights only occur...
Here we have the ruling rooster here at Coal Creek Farm. Currently he goes by the name Scarecrow, in part because of behavior like this. Here he is chasing a cochin away from the cat food bowlsonly his three hens are allow to steal food from the cats.
I wish the chickens could be convinced to start a small fire in a bucket and allow me to photograph them brewing coffee and cooking oatmeal over an open flame... yep... that is my one true wish, to watch chickens preparing food.
Thanks Princess_Layer. The roo in the first set of photos is an American Game, I've been told he is of a regional lineage.
I can't really say what the black birds are, I can tell you what they were supposed to be when I bought them as chicks haahaa. They were supposed to be summatrans but they...
Thanks EastTxChick, I've searched fowl pox here and several of the threads contained photo links that have been deleted. Google turned up a lot of great information but not many diagnostic photos. I'll try to get snap quality macro shots of the roo.... and I'll tell him what you said.
This guy did get into a scuffle with another rooster just short of a week ago, and I have heard that injuries to the comb can sometimes look like this. He hasn't been behaving differently, continues to eat, maintains a healthy posture, no lesions in the mouth or throat, nor have I observed...