building paradise for the birds

[birdman55]

Into their new pen with the guineas

And this raptor or we shall call her a Malay chicken should get three feet tall

What's in ur garden?

Svart Jonas sitting in front of the fan enjoying the breeze. Well a lot of cleaning and organizing going on. Got rid of like 40 birds. So much more to do. That's for sure

 

[birdmansmom]

So looking forward to coming up this next weekend for a few days. Start making a list!

 

[birdman55]

So I have wondered this question....!!!! Pasty butt? What is the real problem.

Please read great article
http://www.raising-chickens.org/poopy-butt-.html

 

[birdman55]

Original Hmong rooster

Just one row of eggs

Random pic

Butcher gamefowl "manfighter"

Silver golden male

Svart Hona roosters

Yellow golden

Lady Amherst

Red golden pheasants.

 

[birdman55]

So the garden sucked this year. However the experiments that I have tried this year worked very well. As u can see

Zucchini and gourds

Multi color carrots

Our rouge chicken somehow got into the back yard so I now have a new edition

This is a hound stag eslin redquill

Young stag lacy gamefowl

Butcher saying hi. Lol

Breeders stock of the svart honas

So this is Ohio. We just got back from picking up 10 pair of mearns quail

Me n baby trying to keep eyes open for flash. Yeah not happening.

Still in the box just got home.

Told u guys I was getting mearns and here is a sneak peak at them

Mom n I transferred 3 brooders outside

Post work workout .

 

[birdman55]

Caught laying an egg

California valley quail

Mom before she left

Lacy gamefowl and let's just say it took a while to get him to trust me this day

First brooder cleaned and filled
row 1 California valley quail
Row 2 chickens
Row 3 chickens
Row 4 Tennessee red quail
Row 5 Tennessee red quail

Brooder 2 cleaned and emptied. Also brought another rack of pheasants outside

Mearns quail. Not easy or cheap to get. So thankful for my investors. Also have been free ranging chickens in the front and have added about 10 female fibro chickens out back to my black meat project. Next year will be bigger then this year and hopefully more organized. Also just got our first egg from the silver Hmong chickens. Woot woot

 

[birdman55]

Just some fibro chickens free ranging out front. I guess they don't like the back.

A good night at the investors house. I haven't ate a lot of sushi before but this was pretty good.

The above two pics are of the mearns quail. Very peaceful n docile birds. I love them so far.

Hatching has gone down dramatically since the pheasants have stopped and all the birds are in molt so very few eggs. Also something killed my redquill roosters on the tee pees. So I have been sleeping outside to catch the critter. Since the India kills I have not been subject to another death. Just bummed out that they got killed. Be back in a flash working on getting 3 dump trucks of sand chips and saw dust.

 

[birdman55]

Started introducing females to the black meat project

Gavalan hen with her four chicks that are already fighting with each other

Butcher gamefowl in above two pics. No tails yet. But filling out nicely

Lacy gamefowl u can tell he is not very friendly.

Joker in back catching me on the other side of the fence

Since free ranging the chickens out front they have gotten a lot nicer looking and now perching in the trees also destroying most of the vegetation.

Birdman like usual covered in birds.

Well I started to reconstruct the fire pit I will show u guys the progress as we go.

 

[birdman55]

Well the fire pit is somewhat built. Much more is going to be done with this layout but most of the hard work is done.

 

[birdman55]

Just been cleaning up the yard and worming the birds. Been pulling up all the garden stuff and putting up plastic on pens. Also got gamecock magazine today and mom n I had our pitcture with bill Roberts from Utah in it. That was during our trip to Vegas. Such a good guy. Getting some more birds from him on Thursday