California - Northern

[Adriennesmom]

Beautiful birds!
Sigh. Jealous.
I love the polish rock stars, but I can't have them. I'm afraid they'd get eaten if I let them free range with my main flock.

Thank you

They are pretty great birds! I completely understand about worrying about them being eaten. I live out in the country and there are all kinds of predators to worry about. I let my chickens and ducks free range when I am outside with them. If I go into the house, they get to run around their run. So far, so good

 

[WasabiChicki]

BTW:
Anyone have any opinion on chickens living under Ponderosa pines?
The goats can't because the pine needles are known to cause miscarriages so the new chicken yard is what went under the pine grove.
The very thick blanket of the pine needles is already a favorite forage space when the chickens are out & about... I haven't noticed any problems but now the pines may be their only forage area for a few months.

 

[debs_flock]

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I agree that rabbit is probably the least bad, dry and no odor. Probably one of the few manures you can pick up with your bare hand with no consequence to speak of (assuming you aren't speaking of their morning poo). Now, try loading 40 show rabbits into your car and drive across country to the national convention. Within two days the inside of your car smells like buck, ick.

To me, horse is actually somewhat pleasant, probably not if I had a dirty barn full.

Okay, if you leave the realm of livestock, I have a pet phrase to describe pure meaness.

"You are meaner than cat***t".

Feline is the absolute worst in my book.

Okay, enough talk of manure,

Moving to the topic of baking bread, I need to go start a loaf. I haven't had bread in the house for several days.

Deb

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I see no comments other than the one positive one and a response by the author. Maybe negative comments are deleted?

Deb

 

[zooweemama]

Maybe it's because I grew up with it, but to me there is a range of manure smells that go from bad to worse. None are good lOL.

Worst is swine
least bad is rabbit

Chicken is ok, but the early morning ones are the worst. I hear that Broody poo is terrible though..

After all of this poo talk, I think I will think about roses and sweet smelling things. Is there anything like the smell of baking bread?

Ron

haha I lived on a farm as a teen for a year and a half. We had everything. Rabbits, peacocks, ducks, chickens, goats, pigs, horse and doves. (not sure why they had all of those- we ate the chickens and eggs and rabbits and sold the rabbits. everything else just ate feed. we didn't do anything with them though) Well we road the horses. LOL We had 2 pigs and they weren't really stinky (maybe because there was only 2 though), I don't recall the chickens smelling that bad either frankly- the rabbit cages were gross to clean. Lucky for me we were usually doing poop chores around 6am...and usually early Spring for the major cleaning so the smell was minimal. We are finishing up the coop this weekend and moving the first batch of chickens out- they will be 4 weeks old. They are big and smelly haha. I let them be outside is a large cage thing right now so I clean out their night poo which smells real bad now. I think outside it won't be so bad. Then batch 2 moves into the brooder they just left.

Gosh I wish I could keep both my BCM roos. They are SO darn sweet. They let me pick them up! So calm. The Orps sometimes nip at my hands when I go to grab them and get them out (to take them outside for the day). The Orps so are so doggone pretty tho. I want some blue ones!

I am seriously eyeballing your hen in that 3rd picture. Her feathering is eye candy to me!

Ope sorry. Running off at the keyboard again!

Hope all you Norcal peeps are enjoying this sick gorgeous weather!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I agree that rabbit is probably the least bad, dry and no odor. Probably one of the few manures you can pick up with your bare hand with no consequence to speak of (assuming you aren't speaking of their morning poo). Now, try loading 40 show rabbits into your car and drive across country to the national convention. Within two days the inside of your car smells like buck, ick.

To me, horse is actually somewhat pleasant, probably not if I had a dirty barn full.

Okay, if you leave the realm of livestock, I have a pet phrase to describe pure meaness.

"You are meaner than cat***t".

Feline is the absolute worst in my book.

Okay, enough talk of manure,

Moving to the topic of baking bread, I need to go start a loaf. I haven't had bread in the house for several days.

Deb

Totally agree about the cat dreck, but my dogs seem to think it is a rare delicacy!

Pig poo is pretty potent too!

Going to make banana bread tonight!!!!

 

[zooweemama]

I see no comments other than the one positive one and a response by the author. Maybe negative comments are deleted?

Deb

That's why I didn't bother. I know good and well the author has received negative comments but is not showing them. The entire article is poorly done. There is no source quoting (obvious indicator of it being a hate piece/opinion blog post) which means take it with a grain of salt. And the person has a clear agenda- recruit vegans. It's a free country- have at it. But the entire piece is contrived, lack in factual information and not even worth the time it takes to comment. Annoying that the author lumped us up into that whole group. Although I am well aware there is some truth to some of it. Yes the chicks are treated like that. You can go on You Tube and do a search for Dirty Jobs and McMurray hatchery and see for yourself. But many of us also buy local- actually most serious hobbyists buy from breeders not hatcheries so clearly she is an idiot.

 

[zooweemama]

Totally agree about the cat dreck, but my dogs seem to think it is a rare delicacy!

Pig poo is pretty potent too!

Going to make banana bread tonight!!!!

Oh gosh. My rott things its a duck poo buffet if he makes it into the duck coop without me seeing. Cat poo is also an import he clearly enjoys. Dogs are SO gross. lmbo!

I'm making naan bread tonight!

 

[zooweemama]

Oh man. If the combs are any indication- my six 10 day old BCMs are looking very cocky. Ahhhh! I am not having any luck with my female/male BC Marans ratio if this is how it's going. LOL

ETA: or maybe not. I am looking again...

compared to my first batch:

my 'roos' got tails early and combs early. i have 3 of those. in the new batch. they look just like the ones we suspect are cockerels.

3 of them though -have no tails and virtually no comb. so maybe these might be females. (hope hope hope) although kind of a bummer to have 8 bcm and only 3 might be hens. lmbo!

 

[capayvalleychick]

Glad that you found a home for your roo, Ron.

Sheep manure is just as dry & orderless as rabbit. I agree, pig & cat have to be the worst. And IMO duck poo & water is almost as bad.

Horse & cattle are not so bad, unless it gets wet. I love the smell of a sweaty horse's neck. And I'm not weird because Pat Parelli said the same thing.

They should make a man's aftershave that smells like it. The striking thing about broody hen poo is the size!

I'm jealous of you, that can bake this time of year. Our swamp cooler does a poor job, so we can't use the oven all summer. We cook everything on the grill.

Wasabi... you might ask the question about the pines on the Sierra thread, since they have more pines than the rest of CA.

Have a good day everyone,
Kim