calling any one from missouri

[peanut67]

I live down by Truman Lake Peanut

 

[EdenCamp]

Not a good day today, predator got my favorite blue slate turkey, think she was on a nest just down the hill from the house......

LGDs got a talking to about doing thier dang job better! Can't really complain I guess, haven't lost anything for more than 8 months and that was an owl got a couple guineas. Still..... POOP!

 

[EdenCamp]

Ok day's improving.
RIR hen has gone broody - so I have a place to put the legbars

Another blue slate hen came up by the house with her brood!

Have only managed to snag 3 of the polts so far but a bunch more to collect to get her penned up with them. Hopefully she'll bring them up at dinner time so I dont have to dive through the brush.
And some folks coming for a half dozen ducklings this afternoon.

 

[DEBUS CHICKS]

My daughter and I are new to the chicken world...what is a "bunt"?

 

[misschickenlittle]

My daughter and I are new to the chicken world...what is a "bunt"?

That would be a Polish Tolbunt. Polish is breed Tolbunt coloring.

 

[EdenCamp]

I live down by Truman Lake Peanut

Several of us are going to the Jacob's Cave swap meet next Sat - not that far from you. Are you planning on going?

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Gads too early. Help a fog head out.

What is SLC and FF/RC? And what breed of breeders?
If I remember right 4H/FFA are typically hatchery birds?
I may DOHHHHHH on the response but trying to register what you're saying this morning and failing miserably.
Coffee, I need coffee! Open a bigger vein@

Silver Laced Cochin. Feather feet. Rose comb.
Hoping I get the birds I am going to try for from Silver Laced Cochin over Silver Laced Wyandotte. Since FF and RC are both dominant traits.

And yes most are, just standard breeds is what I am aiming for though nothing super unique. But my summer will be super full raising all the birds I have and are cooking. So a couple adults after the summer hectics will be fine by me. A few less I have to worry about right now is what I am looking for down the road. Will have (I hope) the barn converted for the majority of my birds and then I will have the 3 strict breed pens.
Not sure yet if I will have a guinea pen for breeders. Strong thinking on the subject. Would beat the heck out of searching for days for the nest. Or stumbleing onto 1 accidently. Just slightly worried how they will behave in captivity. I will be using this years hatched keets so I don't get psycho birds cuz their penned after a year+ of freedom.

 

[peanut67]

we have been planning on it will let you know would be nice to meet Peanut

 

[jnjmanning]

My daughter and I are new to the chicken world...what is a "bunt"?

Polish Tolbunt

 

[peanut67]

My guineas are free range all day and then I lock them up at night put them in the run around 6.00 each night or sometime a little later but in the winter much eariler before it gets dark and they do just fine, when i am gone I leave them in the run all the time so my friend does not have to worry about putting them in I belive after a while they would gey use to it so good luck when you start Peanut also my hens laid in their house much to my surprise.