Call Ducks or Bantams...Crazy Animals Around the Farm

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Thank you~ She is actually! I thought at first someone plucked out all her tail feathers but when I noticed they weren't growing back I decided to feel around for a tail.. Doesn't have one at all~!

Cool. What breed is she?

 

[MillersFarm]

I just planted my Apple trees last year and only paid $60 each. The greenhouse was asking $170 for the same thing.. Home Depot...

Home Depot is normally my go-to place for plants and trees, I've got to go over there sometime and see what they got, I'd really love to get a nice big pumpkin patch going too, I always grow pumpkins and sell them just to make a little spending money, They always go so fast and i'd normally get like around $450-$650 to spend on more birds or supplies to build more coops for more birds

Cool. What breed is she?

She's an Isa brown I got for free from a feed store another with a couple of others that were sick, The store didn't want to deal with them so i'd offer to take them free of charge

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Lucky!

 

[chickens really]

Home Depot is normally my go-to place for plants and trees, I've got to go over there sometime and see what they got, I'd really love to get a nice big pumpkin patch going too, I always grow pumpkins and sell them just to make a little spending money, They always go so fast and i'd normally get like around $450-$650 to spend on more birds or supplies to build more coops for more birds
She's an Isa brown I got for free from a feed store another with a couple of others that were sick, The store didn't want to deal with them so i'd offer to take them free of charge

Yes..I love Home Depot..
Cool story about that Chicken.

 

[chickens really]

Why the heck am I raising Birds. Pumpkins are the thing to sell......I could just talk to pumpkin..

 

[MillersFarm]

I wonder what colour Dandy is?..Or what colour he is going to be. His head isn't turning green, it's turning a dark grey and only the cap on his head. Hmm?. I'll have to wait and see..

Got any recent pictures of him? I don't think i've seen him after he got all of his feathers in.

Why the heck am I raising Birds. Pumpkins are the thing to sell......I could just talk to pumpkin..

Ha~! You've gotta sell a lot of pumpkins though, I think last year I sold around 170? Plus all the gourds and ornamental corn/corn stocks. my trick is I start selling wayy before Halloween and just keep selling them until halloween's been over for at least a week or two.. Had a pig farmer come to me the week after halloween saying he'd take whatever I had left. The money of course is spent just like that on either more birds or.. more birds.

 

[chickens really]

Here is Dandy today. Not a great picture because he runs away..

 

[chickens really]

Also I don't think I could ever be Birdless....

 

[MillersFarm]

View attachment 1416736 Here is Dandy today. Not a great picture because he runs away..

Oh he's gorgeous~ His head sort of reminds me of a saxony duck. I love how he turned out

Also I don't think I could ever be Birdless....

x2 I could never imagine being birdless either. They're the only things that keep me sane

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

No idea, Turkey eggs normally take 28 days to hatch and Pyxis thinks it's about 2 weeks in so maybe another 2 weeks?


Haha, I don't really need more turkeys but, I thought hey~ It's just one egg, And it might not even hatch Just the thought of having a wild turkey sounds cool, I really love how they look in the wild too~


Welp, Just flipped them all, Thank you~! I hope I get something out of my guinea eggs, My males aren't doing their job and only 2 have paired up with a hen so far, So i'm not expecting many to be fertile.. But for the ones that are I sure do hope that they hatch~!

You should have a better hatch rate with the fat side up. our TSC sells the 30% turkey starter crumble that's good for game birds, do they need higher when they get older?

@MillersFarm
Your garden sounds big. You would laugh your head off at my garden..
It's only about 6X10...
I'm hilarious because I check daily to see if anything has come up. It was only planted about 5 days ago..

I think our garden is 10x10?

Yeah, I've got to go to rhinehart's feed store to pick up some more Turkey feed since tractor supply doesn't sell any anymore But they've got a whole lot of seeds I can pick up in bulk while i'm at there, I just need to make a list of what I need..

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Way too cute and beautiful. My fav is of the two different sized chicks together!