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Howdy Folks,

Yes I know it's been a while. Things are always whirling about at high RPM...

Lil'Blue is getting a 30 year upgrade. We finished the farm house and have prospective tenants in it. School is out and we've left the house and cluckers to our son to look after for a few weeks.

We restarted our flock last October 23rd with thirty new peepers. It was supposed to be 24 but my neighbor had a family tragedy and we had to take back the 6 we got for her. Through judicious sales and attrition we are now down to 14. (Just lost a Rhode Island Red yesterday :-( )

Had to sell the Salmon Favrolles - those are some chattery clluckers!!!

Sold some Silver and Gold Laced Wyandottes - very skittery & we were not enjoying them as much as I had hoped

I like the Americunas eggs but none of them want anything to do with humans & one of them (of three) went broody!

Pastrymama found a local breeder of App Spitz and will be incubating up a dozen for me in mid July so I'll prolly have some roos to get rid of in a few months.

With 20+ cluckers in the yard we had an over abundance of eggs. We put a message up on FB that they were $3 a dozen and our silly children thought that meant them as well so there was a point where there were 12 dozen eggs in the fridge!!! That's all straightened out now and we are down to 14 chooks so hopefully we will not come home to a fridge full of eggs again.

Hope all is well with all y'all!

Mikey
 
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Pics of my cochies...... Such sweeties...
 
Ok I have a question for the people on here that breed to show or breed for the SOP of a breed. I am frustrated by some of the attitudes and negativity of some of the AM breeders. I wonder if all breeders are against selling stock so they can continue the breed and the interest in the breed because they are afraid the bird might be used to mix or as a project bird project. Does it really matter? If they are not showing the birds it should not matter. I understand if they are selling offspring and using the breeders name as a reference but really I have never met so many people so cliquish. Ok I am not one that vents a lot so sorry I just wondered if we do not share our genetics we can never move forward and the breed dies. We need people that are willing to breed and educate and work to maintain and improve breeds. all breeds.
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I have a BO that has a bare back because of a rooster and no feathers seem to be growing in. I'm getting ready to turn another set of pullets out with the big chickens and there's a rooster in the bunch. Need to get some chicken aprons but have not been able to find them up here in any of the feed stores. Anyone know of a place I can order some? She's also getting sunburned and I've been putting sun screen on her back.
 
jubilation said:
I have a BO that has a bare back because of a rooster and no feathers seem to be growing in. I'm getting ready to turn another set of pullets out with the big chickens and there's a rooster in the bunch. Need to get some chicken aprons but have not been able to find them up here in any of the feed stores. Anyone know of a place I can order some? She's also getting sunburned and I've been putting sun screen on her back.
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amazon sells them
 
a little chiken said:
Ok I have a question for the people on here that breed to show or breed for the SOP of a breed. I am frustrated by some of the attitudes and negativity of some of the AM breeders. I wonder if all breeders are against selling stock so they can continue the breed and the interest in the breed because they are afraid the bird might be used to mix or as a project bird project. Does it really matter? If they are not showing the birds it should not matter. I understand if they are selling offspring and using the breeders name as a reference but really I have never met so many people so cliquish. Ok I am not one that vents a lot so sorry I just wondered if we do not share our genetics we can never move forward and the breed dies. We need people that are willing to breed and educate and work to maintain and improve breeds. all breeds.
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ok I am done ranting.
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I've encountered the same thing when looking for the aforementioned Appenzeller Spitzhauben.
 
I think it was someplace in Russia over 25 or 30 years ago, that trying to make the fox easier to handle for the fur coat trade tried to tame them. It worked, to well. They are wonderful pets, half dog half cat, and very playful. Unfortunately, they are useless as fur coats. Now they have curled or straight tails, pointed or flop years, and a thick coat of many spots and colors. As of yet, to my last hearing about them, they are unable to get them as yet to breed true, but now the other part. They are a happy tail wagging people loving pet like animal.... Hard to look at as a fur product. All they wanted was a fox that would not take your and off when you feed them or took care of them, easier and safer to handle. Not getting your faced licked for joy when you handle them.
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:love Who could make that into a fur coat.... And now, apparently, still hunters, but don't know what to once anything is caught. Play with it? Make it your friend?
 

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