American Gamefowl

[SOHC-FTW]

A lot of mine are molting as well pretty hard I might add.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

SOHC-FTW -- such a beautiful hen! Is she broody?
These are some pretty birds.
Good luck with your flocks!

Thanks and she has done hatched and taken away from the 10 she did hatch. She's pretty darn hateful not a good mother this year we'll try her again next year hopefully.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

....loud groups came in just in time to catch a damn down pour serves them right....

Lol

Here we get the townies and city folk coming out to run the county roads in their side by side ATVs... buzzing around making noise and littering every weekend...

Used to be that folks went to the country for the quiet, now they seem to come out to make noise.

I told my wife we’re gonna have to start going to town on the weekends just to have some piece and quiet

 

[B123]

Did you see that picture of hillfolk in his chaps?

Unfortunately, yes...

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I teach kids fly tying over the summer in a outdoor event in August. It’s kind of a high end hunt club event though. The kids are fun to teach and some of their parents want to learn to.
I’m not into clubs at all either. For some reason I don’t get along with many people.
I prefer fishing for bass and blue gills just because its fun and its never a hassle. They can be picky enough but not as bad as breaking out the magnifying glass to tie the the tippet to the fly.

I’ve never tried to teach a kid to fly fish but that seems like it might take more patience than I keep in stock

The closest experience I can think of was about 10 years ago I had to go to South Africa, and I figured if I was making the trip I might as well book a hunt, so I squeezed in a short four days of hunting...

...my guide’s boys were home schooled, really nice kids and looking for any excuse to get out of their studies, but since I was the guest it was up to me if they could come along... I never cared for school myself so I felt for them and they along with their jack Russell became part of the crew...

... anyway the place I stayed had a spring fed lake stocked with rainbows which apparently were hard to come by there... and as part of the stay I was allowed to fish there on the last day... so I said I don’t want to fish by myself, how about the boys come with?

They’d thrown a fly before but weren’t great at it ... but they didn’t do too bad and one of them did catch a trout....

 

[roosterhavoc]

Lol

Here we get the townies and city folk coming out to run the county roads in their side by side ATVs... buzzing around making noise and littering every weekend...

Used to be that folks went to the country for the quiet, now they seem to come out to make noise.

I told my wife we’re gonna have to start going to town on the weekends just to have some piece and quiet

I will never understand why everyone loves to rip up the woods and splash through the mud etc.. I’m there for the damn quiet. Canoes, fly fishing, bow hunting, trapping. I get real pissed off when them degenerates come tearing down trails when I’m hunting.
I had one small incident a few years back when some cowboy cam e flying down a trail on a dirbike just past dusk. He never saw us in front of him. Good thing he had a helmet on cause I clotheslined him with my bow. Idiots I swear. He was all kinds of apologetic after that. He even admitted he never saw us on the trail.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I’ve never tried to teach a kid to fly fish but that seems like it might take more patience than I keep in stock

The closest experience I can think of was about 10 years ago I had to go to South Africa, and I figured if I was making the trip I might as well book a hunt, so I squeezed in a short four days of hunting...

...my guide’s boys were home schooled, really nice kids and looking for any excuse to get out of their studies, but since I was the guest it was up to me if they could come along... I never cared for school myself so I felt for them and they along with their jack Russell became part of the crew...

... anyway the place I stayed had a spring fed lake stocked with rainbows which apparently were hard to come by there... and as part of the stay I was allowed to fish there on the last day... so I said I don’t want to fish by myself, how about the boys come with?

They’d thrown a fly before but weren’t great at it ... but they didn’t do too bad and one of them did catch a trout....

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Sounds like a great trip. It definitely takes some patience. I’d rather teach fly tying than fly fishing though. The hardest thing I find is line control not the actual casting. Eventually the casting will come but if they can’t manage the line with their other hand they don’t stand much chance of catching anything. My son was 5 in these pics when he caught his first fish with a fly by himself. I would let him reel fish in since he was 3 though.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I’ve noticed in various threads that a decent amount of people are losing birds to critters all over. Nobody wants to trap them? I must be missing something.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Sounds like a great trip. It definitely takes some patience. I’d rather teach fly tying than fly fishing though. The hardest thing I find is line control not the actual casting. Eventually the casting will come but if they can’t manage the line with their other hand they don’t stand much chance of catching anything. My son was 5 in these pics when he caught his first fish with a fly by himself. I would let him reel fish in since he was 3 though.
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Those are great pics.

I don’t have kids.... and patience is often not my strong suit ...

I do sun up to sun down sits in a tree a few times a year around November 6-ish... and my wife is baffled that I have the patience for that... somehow that I can do, but teaching a kid anything but how to get in trouble or annoy their parents is a skill I just don’t have

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I’ve noticed in various threads that a decent amount of people are losing birds to critters all over. Nobody wants to trap them? I must be missing something.

Or they’re stupid and free range their birds and expect that they won’t lose a single bird to predators.
Might be tree huggers too.