Wow! Purple mushrooms!Just put my first batch of eggs into lockdown6 of the shipped Lark Rise W/BW Ameraucana and 7 of my OE eggs. Saturday the second batch goes into lockdown. 11 d'Anvers, 8 Ameraucana and 7 golden cuckoo Marans. Then my incubators will be free for more eggs
These beautiful mushrooms popped up outside of my chicken coup.
What about white...Have I mentioned the glory that is the California Grey??? And Dorkings and Icelandics...don't forget about Dorkings and Icelandics!!! There is a BYC user from whom I bough eggs last year and she can hook you up with some Dorking over Polish crosses they will get you white eggs too.
Looks like a Blewit Mushroom which is edible. Don't recommend it though. Can you pull one out by the volva (root) and show me a pic of the underside? I have a mushroom field guide.Just put my first batch of eggs into lockdown6 of the shipped Lark Rise W/BW Ameraucana and 7 of my OE eggs. Saturday the second batch goes into lockdown. 11 d'Anvers, 8 Ameraucana and 7 golden cuckoo Marans. Then my incubators will be free for more eggs
These beautiful mushrooms popped up outside of my chicken coup.
Thanks. Also what are those about 4 inches across?
Fingers crossed your hatches go well!!!Just put my first batch of eggs into lockdown6 of the shipped Lark Rise W/BW Ameraucana and 7 of my OE eggs. Saturday the second batch goes into lockdown. 11 d'Anvers, 8 Ameraucana and 7 golden cuckoo Marans. Then my incubators will be free for more eggs
These beautiful mushrooms popped up outside of my chicken coup.
Quote: True...can't forget the lowly, under-appreciated white eggs.
Those mushrooms appear to be Clitocybe nuda or Blewitt. If you break one of the caps and it smells like frozen orange juice its a blewitt and very edible and extremely tasty. Where are you located? Id love to come by and harvest them if you dont want to.Just put my first batch of eggs into lockdownThese beautiful mushrooms popped up outside of my chicken coup.
If they aren't up too high, I've been able to use a steel garden rake and push that up against their bellies or chest, like you would use your finger, arm or hand to get a caged bird of it's perch.Roosting UP in a tree. Safer than on the ground, but my tree climbing days are well behind me. Not that I was exceptionally coordinated, I did love the joy of climbing. Falling out of a big ole tree caused me to have a lumbar laminectomy at the tender age of 16. I appreciate your idea. This is one street smart chicken. I hope she survives until we can find her a home. Any rehoming or rescue ideas are welcome!If we find a taker, I'll provide the ladder and will enlist someone to pluck her off her perch.
Looks like a Blewit Mushroom which is edible. Don't recommend it though. Can you pull one out by the volva (root) and show me a pic of the underside? I have a mushroom field guide.
I was curious, so I went out and measured them and the biggest ones are 6 inches across. They are growing only in one place, and only about 6 of them. It appears that they like the area that I put the droppings I rake out of the chicken yard. I wouldn't want to disturb/pick them since I am throughly enjoying looking at them whenever I go out to the chicken yard. I have never seen them growing here before. I do like hearing about them and knowing what they are
Great pictures!I was curious, so I went out and measured them and the biggest ones are 6 inches across. They are growing only in one place, and only about 6 of them. It appears that they like the area that I put the droppings I rake out of the chicken yard. I wouldn't want to disturb/pick them since I am throughly enjoying looking at them whenever I go out to the chicken yard. I have never seen them growing here before. I do like hearing about them and knowing what they are
Here are some other interesting mushrooms I took pictures of today. They make such interesting subjects for photography.
