BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[JRNash]

People are getting hit hard in the Carolinas.

 

[JRNash]

Its been my experience that the old adage. Familiarity breeds Contempt is very true.

 

[Beer can]

We don't hunt (not even our own property) during season...too man nuts in the woods.  We let our friends and helpers hunt our places and we just use damage permits to get venison for our freezers.

Nutz here also. I wear a blaze orange vest with 'I'm not a deer' wrote on the back....

 

[neopolitancrazy]

 

[DesertChic]

Being the neighborhood Nut has its perks. Zero visitors.

I think I'm beginning to develop that "neighborhood nut" title unintentionally. Admittedly I'm not a very social person....I leave the friendly socializing to my husband since he's so good at it...but every time one of my neighbors finds out how many chickens and guns I now own they get this rather horrified expression and make an excuse to leave in a hurry. One even went so far as to ask, "You're not one of those prepper people, are you?". Well, duh! Of course I am. I don't understand how anyone can NOT be a prepper to at least some degree in this day and age.

 

[Our Roost]

Protectionism is a wonderful thing eh? Chickens and guns just seem to go together. My roosters are the watch dogs that alert me and the guns are for those that mess with them! Primarily predators I might add.

 

[gjensen]

I am fine in SC. The area that I am in handled the excessive rain fine. I settled one concern before the rain started, and we handled it well. I am not sure how much rain I did get. 14" in a few days? Some areas saw over 20". Most of the problems developed in low areas and drainages Saturday morning when everything was full, and we saw huge amounts of rain in about 6 hours. Too much at one time.
It was a good wake up call, and a reminder that there are some places that we should not build. Places like Charleston flood whenever there are torrential thunderstorms and they time with high tide. When you are at sea level, it does not take much.
This however, was a little too much. For some the bulk of 20 inches + fell in two days, and the bulk of that in half of one day. It was an interesting set of conditions that converged to create a unique weather event. It was like spraying a fire hose over the center of the State for a few days.

Concerning neighbors etc. I am not a social butterfly, but I do have very good relationships with my closest neighbors. I am fortunate to have good neighbors. I do like people and have a concern for people. At the same time, I do feel an obligation to protect my family. That is where my protectionism is rooted. That is normal I think. I am a prepper in the sense that I want to be prepared for hard times. I would like to think that we have the ability to survive, until we do not. We are not here forever, but while I am here, I want to be responsible with what I have been given.

Tall fences, gates, large dogs, and a house that is out of sight is a reasonable deterrent. People are naturally cautious about things that they cannot see. The gate stays closed, but it is to keep the dogs in etc. People call before they visit.

 

[gjensen]

I am curious. Are our birds molting, have already, just started, or have not started yet?

 

[DesertChic]

I am curious. Are our birds molting, have already, just started, or have not started yet?

Most of mine are in the middle of molting, while one that was an early molter is finally growing her feathers back. In my Australorps there wasn't much of a production slow-down with the molt, but my Turkens definitely slowed.

 

[dfr1973]

I am curious. Are our birds molting, have already, just started, or have not started yet?

Feyd the GLW rooster is having an ugly molt. Torpie the Wheatie Am from Luanne is starting to finally grow back some feathers now that I moved her in with the older Silkies (who are definitely doing their juvenile molt ... looks almost like snow in there). Bossy the other Wheatie Am from Luanne is now broody, so we put some fresh eggs from Tiny and the Flashy Girls and a couple from Spikey and the red broilers under her ... then needed to move everyone else out of the broody house because simple demon-possession is nothing compared to a hormonal hen. Bossy had even been "helping" Torpie molt. The mixed breed banties haven't shown signs of molt yet, but they ought to soon, as they came into lay for the first time last November/December to save us from store-bought eggs that shattered whenever I tried to crack them.

That is all of mine that are old enough to molt - fun times starting with so many young'uns.