California - Northern

[juststruttin]

Went and picked up some free pallets with my daughter today. Now I'm on Pinterest looking at pallet projects! This cute coop is listed on CL right now and they say that it is made with pallets. It looks to me like it could use some more ventilation but I like it! I don't like it enough to spend $400 on it but enough to build my own with a few modifications! http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/grd/4504796132.html

Super cute but yes build your own and please take lots of photos. I have been contemplating building a coop from pallets but need some inspiration.

 

[juststruttin]

All this discussion of doves caused me to go look up doves and pigeons around the world. First, I love zebra doves. I remember them well from my trips to Hawaii. The eye ring on the diamond doves icks me out a little though.

But apparently I need to move to the East Indies, I love, love, love the nicobar pigeons and all the different varieties of fruit doves. Gorgeous! (all pictures lifted from the web - but now I have a new destination, EOS in hand)

Nicobar pigeon


A small sampling of fruit doves, but there are dozens of varieties, each one colored more fantastically than the one before!








I think I'm in love!

Wow beautiful. Birds really are amazing.

 

[casportpony]

Super cute but yes build your own and please take lots of photos. I have been contemplating building a coop from pallets but need some inspiration.

Kuntrygirl has built most of her stuff from pallets and recycled wood.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/6612/kuntrygirl

-Kathy

 

[HenHacienda]

*****OLD BUTCH******* thought this was funny enough to share!
Fred was in the fertilized egg business.

He had several hundred young 'pullets', and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.

Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Fred's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Fred's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.

He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Piece Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.

Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

Vote carefully in the next election, you can't always hear the bells.

If you don’t send this on, you’re chicken.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Kuntrygirl has a website with lost of pictures os stuff she made using pallets and recycled wood and tin:
http://happyacresfarm.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11998687

-Kathy

 

[debs_flock]

I think they look like a toddler trying to use ALL the crayons in the box.

If a kid colored this in school, the teacher would mark them down for being TOO creative.

I always said the same of my gouldians.

 

[caychris]

*****OLD BUTCH******* thought this was funny enough to share!
Fred was in the fertilized egg business.

He had several hundred young 'pullets', and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.

Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Fred's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Fred's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.

He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Piece Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.

Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

Vote carefully in the next election, you can't always hear the bells.

If you don’t send this on, you’re chicken.
An oldie but a goodie.

 

[caychris]

I think they look like a toddler trying to use ALL the crayons in the box.

If a kid colored this in school, the teacher would mark them down for being TOO creative.

I always said the same of my gouldians.

Like I said they reminded me of fruit loops. I could almost smell the fruit.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote:
Hey, don't get me started. I thought about getting rid of all my other hobbies and just get toucans!

 

[caychris]

Hey, don't get me started. I thought about getting rid of all my other hobbies and just get toucans!