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I'm positive! I'm about to get rid of my Egyptian, he's driving me crazy! Not the crowing, it's his flying! He flies into my tomatoes no matter how I fence him out. Than his little girlfriends all have to go in with him. Tomorrow morning, I'm cutting his flight feathers and all the other delinquent girls will get flight feathers cut, too! Then, I'm going to Highley Feeds to get some tall fencing wire and I'm building a fence to make them a pen. Maybe if they stay in a pen awhile they'll forget about Once I get lettuce, cabbage and other winter stuff planted, they have to stay out of the gardens. I need to teach them that the walkways are theirs and the gardens are ours. That Egyptian is the troublemaker. Him and a couple of buttercups.
don't EVEN tell me that buttercups are troublemakers! i have 4 of them, well, 3 live with me and one lives with laree(there was an incident). anywho, they are 6 weeks i think and just FREAK when i open the growout pen door! but they are getting so pretty. i clip ALL my birds wings due to THE BEAGLE and we got the first half of the bird netting up over the run today so they hopefully can't fly out into the rest of the yard to meet their demise. so are you telling me Tracy, i don't want egyptians?
Unless you like raising birds that have the mentality of a pheasant, you will not like Egyptians. They are the cutest chicks I've ever seen and great foragers (too good) but fly, fly fly over everything.
My buttercups were freaky babies but I had four flighty breeds being raised together. They are getting much better with age. They're seven weeks old and getting whiter all the time. I like them because they are always curious. But, they do can be little troublemakers, too. Whenever somebody is not where they're supposed to be I can guarantee that a buttercup will be in on the crime.
