building paradise for the birds

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bill Roberts, mom and myself in his backyard

this picture was taken when we were leaving. this picture should also be in gamecock magazine sometime soon....you guys are getting a sneak peak



mom and myself on our way to bill Roberts house

one long run that bill has, which you can see he has several runs like this

bill Roberts and mom

I believe spangled butcher, but don't quote me on that could be a miner blue

pumkin hulsey rooster from which I am getting a trio out of....cant wait

white butcher



this picture is when you first walk thru to the back where bills birds are located.

momma bird and her hens

so the rooster of the spangled butchers that I am getting would be in the 4x4' single pen, not the pen in the bottom right but the next one up on the far left....by his shoulder this is the male out of the trio that I selected...bill will be picking out the hens for me.






well this was Saturday morning trip....then we were drove back to the hotel and dropped off


the inside of the venetian

steely dan concert...I think it brought mom to back in the day cause she was singing right along...lol

so this was Friday in las vegas....we flew into vegas was picked up at airport by limo, dropped off at the venetian and then went to a steely dan concert. it was a fun day. vegas is also two hours behind Michigan time.

 

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so when we left in the morning I had her bday cake and flowers delivered to the hotel. it was made by buddy the cake boss....I believe he has his own tv show as well....so when we got back around 3pm she had a surprise.

so we get picked up at around 330pm for our sunset horseback riding experience...lets just say I have never ridden a horse before...lol....they gave me a horse named killer......later to find out that the horse's name was really Julie.

random selfie

view from the horse

mom

mom and myself

back to the trail

 

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so mom and I took a helicopter ride on sunday....it was so fun...I would ride a helo any day.

hoover dam

hoover dam









bunch of pics from the helicopter

boat ride with mom

pics from the boat

selfie...lol what a weird dude

after the boat ride

after we got dropped of at the skywalk. I will post pics later when we get them from the skywalk

 

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our super hot helicopter pilot which made the experience way better for sure.

so this is at the skywalk. and this is still sunday on our trip

it was a learning experience as well

this is what is called a sweat box where spiritual stuff happens in.

this is the inside

random pic

another random

 

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so after the helicopter ride mom and I came up with the plan of walking the strip in vegas and here are some of the views













belagio where they have water shows every 30 minutes



pbr rodeo had a restaurant

mom enjoying a margarita



water show at night was a lot more pretty then during the day...they were playing the titanic for this show

I believe this was infront of cesars.... and then we flew out at 4:00 am

 

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Gavalan hatch gamefowl

Lacy gamefowl

A fight that broke out yesterday

A different lacy gamefowl

Another 4x8' coup

Cinnamon golden

Cinnamon golden

 

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Moving birds to different brooders

 

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So we have a lot to discuss.
Flock start size, fibro traits, black dots on eggs, which fibro is better. So let's gets started

Let's start off with the tray above which are svart Hona fresh yesterday off the press so to speak. You notice white wing tips this is no good. Full right away to save u money and time unless u are keeping for a free range bird or for freezer camp. Normally they will have white in the feet. Another reason to cull.

The above container of many is svart honas and the two are ayam cemani. I started with roughly even numbers between the Hmong, svart honas, and the ayam cemani. With that being said u can see in the pic below as well Hmong chickens and bottom container is svart honas
So the last container is svarts. These were hatched out the same day. Svart honas are the best productive. Some have grayish to deep purple fibro traits while others have a green hue to them. Hens are smaller. Roosters take a bit to fully mature. Then the Hmong chicken. Mid production, much larger hens/roosters then all the fibros. Color to the males (paylay) and none to hens should. Combs are different then those of sh/ac. Dark grayish to grey. Lastly comes the ayam cemani in all aspects of chickens in general. Low egg production, small birds, seems to not grow as fast as other fibro types. The only bird that dies in my brooders bc they are week. Fibro traits are generally pretty dark but not black u should have very few with defects compared to the other fibro birds.

Freshly transferred into brooder

This gets me on my discussion of fibro traits and black spots. U can see the eggs from that batch and hardly any spots now. I have been aggressive about cleaning. Seems more and more less have spots now. Starting to lean toward the mold theory. I have offered to do free things for the university with no response. Next batch I'm just gunna send some eggs in and see. That's all. Be sure to keep up with my forum a lot of new things on there. Also next subject I will be talking about is breed selection and what u should do compared to what most people are doing. See you soon.

Sorry for the repost of pictures but I had to for fibro explaining.

 

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The two above pics are of some miner blue gamefowl chickens.

The two pics above are of some eslin redquill gamefowl.

Gamefowl top n bottom brooder

Eslin redquill gamefowl.

Started to put in the watering system. I will get pics tomorrow

 

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The 4x8 coups and the design is changing every time I build one.

The chickens that just hatched.

The Tibetan chocolate range quail.
Been rainy here so just doing waterers inside. Painting them black to attract heat in the winter. Also have some albino chukar eggs coming. Can't wait. MEARNS QUAIL WHAT!!!!!?