They bought the seeds, but the email they sent out said that they are open pollinated and encouraged people to save seed for the exchange next year. The Master Gardener program and the Farmer's market are helping get it started. I haven't gone in to see it yet, but it is in the old card catalog, which I think is cool!
I do eat my own cockerels that I have raised. Unless you are raising a meat breed, there isn't much demand for those birds as meat, usually. I had 13 boys out of a box of 21 st. run, only 8 pullets. I was giving dressed cockerels to my nearest 2 neighbors who have to listen to the crowing.I've been thinking of hatching some eggs this spring too, but need to have an extra coop set up for the chicks first. Then there is the issue of half being males. I stopped eating meat in the 80's, but have no issues with anyone else eating it. (Not a teenager with meat issues, LOL). But the dogs love chicken. My issues are with memories of my grandmother cutting off their heads and them flying all over spewing blood, with me hiding in the coop. I wasn't coming out for anything or anybody until the carcasses quit flying around. Bad memories there.
The reason I haven't been around is that I used to sit in a comfy chair with the laptop in my lap every morning reading this thread, then discovered that laptop burns are real and accumulate from day to day.
My chickens are underprivileged. No chicken TV. Guess they'll manage.
No shows happening anyway! Only the show people care about a misplaced white feather, just my opinion.Thanks. I'll get one. Less comfy = less time on the internet, which is not necessarily bad, since more things are getting done around the house.
Leghorns are not great as meat birds. They do have their own personalities, though. Big Ben is my favorite, just don't tell the girls. Henrietta is the queen and Big Ben's favorite. Whisper makes me laugh by getting up on the perch and coming right over to me to puck quietly into my ear when I clean the coop. That's how she got her name. I suspect she's saying that she is bottom chicken in the pecking order, and wants to speak to HR. Lacey is just sort of there. Can a chicken have no personality? Anyway....
They're cuckoo leghorns that I got from a chicken show person and judge. They needed to leave his flock because of color issues. They make great backyard chickens, and I never thought I'd enjoy chickens this much. They do have a bit of white feathers mixed in withe the barred ones, which I understand is a no-no. An exchequer leghorn in the background, maybe???? But I think the white looks super pretty, and wouldn't mind having more chickens like this. Would breeding against the standard earn me pariah status from the leghorn crowd?
You could even get some correct birds, the genes are there.
The reason I haven't been around is that I used to sit in a comfy chair with the laptop in my lap every morning reading this thread, then discovered that laptop burns are real and accumulate from day to day.
I REALLY hope we get rain in the valley tonight!! *staring at the clouds*
Wait an hour and the weather will completely change here! Now clouds are breaking and sun is shining on the still drifting down flakes of snow. Gotta love Prescott!I REALLY hope we get rain in the valley tonight!! *staring at the clouds*
