3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[superchemicalgirl]

Well I can always use some more help around here.

... especially pulling up acres of poison ivy come spring.

 

[craz e laid e]

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Hey, maybe we can trade coasts for the spring. I have acres of poison oak, I'm extremely alergic to, but poison ivy doesn't bother me.

 

[Mahonri]

My favorite Splash Wheaten Ameraucana Hen with 6 Revolutionmama chicks. I only know what one of the six is... a white crested blue cuckoo polish. I'm guessing the black one is a sumatra and that the other four are either buff or red sussex. Any guesses?

Here she really has them interested in some DIRT!

 

[mrheinz77]

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My guess is 2 red, a buff, and I don't know on the fourth. In the last picture: bottom right I think is a red and the second from the left. The one on the left looks like it has lighter feathers coming in. The other I'm not sure. I've been known to be wrong before.
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I take that back on the Buff.
http://americansussexbreeders.webs.com/sussexpictures.htm

 

[Blarneyeggs]

This is my try at a flapper photo

Bob the Barred Holland taking a dive. He looks just like a swimmer to me, coming off the block. Michael Phelps, step aside!

 

[Mahonri]

Geeves before he was rehomed.... flapping.

 

[buckabucka]

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Oh! They look so sweet!

 

[anderson8505]

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WOW! What a photo!

 

[rarely bored]

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WOW! What a photo!

X2

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Hey, maybe we can trade coasts for the spring. I have acres of poison oak, I'm extremely alergic to, but poison ivy doesn't bother me.

I'd be willing to try my hands (and arms, legs, face, neck...) at poison oak.

We had poison sumac, oak and ivy growing up in Maryland. Never had a reaction until I moved to Poison Ivy Capital here in Maine. It was so pretty coming up in my flower beds my first spring here, all red and small and cute. I pulled it up with my bare hands since I had no inkling as to what it was. Now I pull it up wearing 2 layers of clothing and disposable dish gloves. Luckily my dump takes it, but I've noticed they also have a poison ivy plethora, most likely due to copious amounts of donations from this farm. The entire chicken run was bushes, brush and ivy. Cleared it by hand, took about a year and a half. If I had known how chickens destroy anything green I could have saved myself 18 months, a few rashes and courses of prednisone.