Search results for query: *

  1. leafhopperfarm

    Guide Coop pages and member pages tutorial and feedback

    This is a coop made out of an old sun chair. I put wheelbarrow handles on one end to make it easy to maneuver around the yard. Old tarps and feed bags keep out the draft. Heavy wire mesh protects the birds and allows good ventilation. This coop was built for young birds, or a...
  2. leafhopperfarm

    The American Cemani Breeders Club...open forum

  3. leafhopperfarm

    I Have To Know, Do You Anthropomorphize Your Animals?

    Very interesting article, long, but full of great info, some very outdated though, wondering if there is a more recent study? Also, domestic dogs are so much closer to us in the evolutionary cycle because we've been breeding and working with them for thousands more years than the domestic...
  4. leafhopperfarm

    Chicken Breed Focus - Ayam Cemani

    fine roosters enjoying the sun I've noticed varying sized of my Cemanies. Two of the cockerels are rather large, while three others are smaller. Is this normal for the breed?
  5. leafhopperfarm

    Topic of the Week - Aggressive Roosters: What is the best way to handle them?

  6. leafhopperfarm

    I Have To Know, Do You Anthropomorphize Your Animals?

    cool, I can take out the creator part, insert "me" and the responsible one, and dig it. thanks!
  7. leafhopperfarm

    Topic of the Week - Aggressive Roosters: What is the best way to handle them?

    Hey Lisa, thanks for your reflections. I am happy to talk more about the word rape in context to human anthropomorphizing onto animals and our perceptions. There are many human communities removed from our first world (academic or otherwise) culture in which men routinely choose the women they...
  8. leafhopperfarm

    I Have To Know, Do You Anthropomorphize Your Animals?

    I think this forum is great and would love to see more discussion here. It's a struggle I have all the time, really because I'm a person with complex emotion and a complicated life, like most other people. Animals live by instinct, and there is no other thoughts of "what if" because food, water...
  9. leafhopperfarm

    Topic of the Week - Aggressive Roosters: What is the best way to handle them?

    I always wonder about our human perceptions reflected onto the birds. It's hard to be completely unbiased, as we only have our own experiences to go from. However, animal behavior and complex human thought are not even close. Animals work on pure instincts, where as people use emotion and our...
  10. leafhopperfarm

    Topic of the Week - Aggressive Roosters: What is the best way to handle them?

    I find that even when the rooster is nice to his flock and older hens had pecked him into line, he can still be a terror to you. It's about having confidence in the coop and also not letting the big boy push you around. As I said in an earlier comment, I pick up my rooster and carry him around...
  11. leafhopperfarm

    Topic of the Week - Aggressive Roosters: What is the best way to handle them?

    My first rooster started getting aggressive after he'd settled in with the hens for a few months. By picking him up and walking around with him while checking the hen house every evening, I'd pet and talk to him about being a nicer guy. After a week of handling him, the charging and kicking...
  12. leafhopperfarm

    The American Cemani Breeders Club...open forum

    what's the story on the Swedish Black Hen bloodlines? Are they dark meat too or just carrying the look of the Ayam Cemani?
  13. leafhopperfarm

    The American Cemani Breeders Club...open forum

    Raising my first batch of Ayams from Feather Lover Farms in CA. Ended up with four roosters and only one hen! Will work on selling a few of my boys once I get my 20 posts down. Anyone doing hybrid experiments? I've got other breeds of hens on the farm and have put one of the roosters in with...
  14. leafhopperfarm

    Chicken Breed Focus - Ayam Cemani

    Love these birds, hoping to sell two cockerels here soon. Their behavior is so fascinating, very different from regular chickens.
Back
Top Bottom