Answer to the Delaware Dilemma

[joletabey]

KATHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT is MY Alexander?????? I looked at that bowl shaped body and thought it was Oliver for sure. WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!YEEHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kathyinmo]

Yes, that is Alexander ..... see that one long sickle feather there? Yup, that is Alexander!

 

[joletabey]

Kathy, thank you - you are sending me such a great looking boy! You know I have liked him since the beginning, but I am just so excited about how he is developing. I better haul those girls out of the dust baths and get them cleaned up for their new beau!

 

[NellaBean]

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We have a policy around here....If it's green, encourage it to grow. If it's on the noxious weed control list, encourage it to grown anyway, but keep it out of sight of the main road!

One man's noxious weed is another woman's pretty spring wild flowers!

LOL, that is my policy too! I had been letting the grass out back grow long for a bit to give the chickens lots of greens and room for bugs to grow. My dad came for a visit and was commenting on all the horrible weeds right near the deck and how I needed to spray them and this and that blah blah blah. My solution. MOW THEM. Oh no, he said, they are going to take over and they look horrible and blah blah blah. MOW THEM I SAY. They are green....once mowed, they just look like GREEN.

So finally he quit grumling for 5 seconds and mowed them. Ooooooooooh, he said. They just look like grass when they're mowed.

Yep.

 

[fowlman01]

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We have a policy around here....If it's green, encourage it to grow. If it's on the noxious weed control list, encourage it to grown anyway, but keep it out of sight of the main road!

One man's noxious weed is another woman's pretty spring wild flowers!

I have three lawns here. They were never seeded. I just mow what comes up and they all look great! Sometimes they are different colors, but that is kind of cool too...............

Walt

 

[joletabey]

Violets in the spring, clover whenever - lawn is just wasted pasture past that! I can certainly build more chicken pens and DH won't have to mow so much!

 

[jeremy]

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OR waste water on keeping the lawn green! I'd much rather use that resource to fill my bird's waterers.

 

[joletabey]

You got it, Jeremy!

How are your Braden pullets looking these days?

I weighed my Del girls the other day- granted I just hauled the bathroom scale out and put it on a paving block, but I thought it would give me an idea. Marianne weighed in at 6.5 which is good, Alice and Eleanor were 6, I had two 5.5's and the rest weighted in at five, which worries me a bit. Cora, who is my prettiest, has turned out to be a lightweight at 5. However, I wormed them last week, and I will see if things improve a bit. They all seemed plumper last spring - perhaps egg laying is taking them down a bit. What do you all feed to plump them back up?

 

[jeremy]

Beth, the Braden girls are growing and growing. They're part of the older teenager flock now, I just intro'ed them permanently last weekend, so the pecking order is being shifted around as they try to fit in. As far as weights go, they look as big as some of my older teenagers, who are a good month and a half to 2 months older than them. Only when you pick them up can you tell a real difference, they're still smaller when pounds are concerned.

I should get some pictures of them this weekend, hopefully by then they'll be a bit more comfortable with the rest of the flock and I can get some good shots of them.

 

[Inkheart]

Hey there
So after reading the beginning of this thread - it sounds like the best rooster tail should be fully barred - the whole feather ?