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We found someone in Virginia with another shuffler line, the first-generation cross is help in high regard. The chicks above do not look like shufflers at all.

Son is learning how to convey concepts with the camera phone. He learned hard way that baiting chicks with large meal worms causes them to scatter.

Schools, not lately, just public events. My son in particular has been taking over the trained chicken display freeing me up for the aquatic critter side of things. We have an event in Charleston, Missouri this coming Monday. Four hour drive each way.

Cicadas are now like of swarm of honeybees in my orchard. Free-range chickens not able to put a dent in them.

They are all the same cross where they are between half and 2/3's Rampuri Aseel with the balance mostly Shuffler with a touch of KC Toppy. The Aseel is the source black and tight down if that is what you are keying in on. There are more colors in the brood than the picture shows. My son is...

The above referenced brood pulls average up with 11 chicks. Lots of color variation.

Son is really proud of this brood. Six chicks with five eggs left.

Most of mine are in the 6 to 10 range. Lower than that means poor hatch rate of eggs laid. Usually that is from too much chicken traffic or stressed hen.

She consistently hatched reared to independence 10 or more chicks. One brood with another hen adding eggs was 23.

Broom and shop vac

Songbirds here moving around a lot less and Starlings appear to be weaning chicks early since the chicks go straight after the cicadas that are super easy to catch.

Like many parts of the US, we are having an emergence of periodic cicadas represented by three species, each with their own annoying song, even though they look a lot alike. The are really abundant on the ground where many will never be able to fly and ultimately reproduce. Not letting them go...

The hen above is the product of four generations of line-breeding anchored on the hen (Sallie) below that was 2-years-old in 2012. The matriarch hen looks a little lighter I think because we did not have as much tree cover and the pens were not yet covered by shade cloth. Feather bleaching. In...

Some of my hens in free-range setting would construct nests in open like a wild turkey or quail does. The same hens would limit their foraging, so it was within a hundred-foot radius of the nest. The hen would then challenge birds, including crows that come into that radius and near or on the...

Eating cicadas till can’t

I have 11 units like shown with cock and white hen. They can be moved onto fresh grass with some difficulty. Still having issues with Black Rat Snakes as they can get at nest even in the side ways barrels after dark.

Snapping turtles are hard to keep out. Larger ones will go after largish fish and amphibians and small fowl while smaller snappers can even go after insects and other smaller eats. Bigger turtles will prefer water at least a couple feet deep to use as cover. Otherwise, they will move out at night.

We just took an extended road trip with Toggles and another. We got to see some things having fun all the way.

Correct. Same thing happens with fish and even trees