If I want one of my hens to go broody, I will collect the eggs each day but will replace the eggs with extra golfballs or fake eggs to gradually make a nice nest full. The girls usually can not resist a nest full of eggs. Once I know someone is serious, I give them some of the collected, or...
Looking good! I'm a fan of louvered doors but hate cleaning them.
I'm impressed that you will be producing your own wainscoting! Start to finish pictures of the lumber will be needed!
Hi Jem!
Haven't been on here....too much to do and too little computer time to read much.
Good to see you back!
Meaties go to the butcher on Friday...25 Cornish X....friend gets 10 of them. I'm glad they are about done.
Hatched some Icelandic chicks from eggs from another breeder. Will keep...
Power was out from about 7:45 pm yesterday until 9:00 am today. Tornado hit about 3 miles from us. Leaf litter and branches down here but nothing major. See pics by googling Woodhaven Lakes, Sublette IL.
Your garden looks great. Nice job on the raised boxes.
Chickens here:
Icelandics...
Mottled is white tips on darker feathers. The percentage of feathers with mottling can vary.
Spangled is white or dark tips on every feather.
A splashed feather is one on which there are irregular splashes of contrasting color. It is a defect in spangled or mottled varieties.
I didn't find any...
The end of this article says they shipped to 75% of the country! Yikes! That is a lot of flocks that have questionable futures.
http://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/news_home/Regulatory/2015/06/Arizona_quarantines_birds_ship.aspx?ID=%7BC4289DB0-9792-4843-BB5D-CFADFD8F57D3%7D