calling any one from missouri

[Fanci Feathers Marans]

I'm getting some Appenzeller Spitzhaubens there.

Aww! I actually got two from them. Not for breeding just for funzies. They are so cute. Blue feet! And zero frostbite.

 

[SueT]

Aww! I actually got two from them. Not for breeding just for funzies. They are so cute. Blue feet! And zero frostbite.

Do you still have them? I am getting 4 chicks, to try to get a male and a female. We'll see.....

 

[Fanci Feathers Marans]

Do you still have them? I am getting 4 chicks, to try to get a male and a female. We'll see.....

Right now I just have one. I gave the other to a relative. They are both female and almost two years old.
Are you going to breed the ones you get?

 

[SueT]

Right now I just have one. I gave the other to a relative. They are both female and almost two years old.
Are you going to breed the ones you get?

I'd like to, we shall see. If I end up w an extra cockerel, do you want one? I'd be glad to give it to a good home rather than eat it....

 

[jeria]

Sue we heated with wood for years. We quit worrying about the wood being dry. It burns fast when it's dry and much slower and more even heat if it is fresh wood. Just be careful if you burn hedge, as it will pop if it is not dry and it burns really hot. We had our heavy Fisher stove turn white once as the DH put too much hedge in. Just my 2 cents worth.

 

[1cock2hens]

moisture is one of the causes of excess creosote buildup in the pipes

 

[Fanci Feathers Marans]

I'd like to, we shall see. If I end up w an extra cockerel, do you want one? I'd be glad to give it to a good home rather than eat it....

Well, I'm not really interested in breeding Appy's, and I have five Roo's as it is. Sorry.
You're not breeding for show or to sell though? Just for personal enjoyment? Of the former is true, I would recommend buying from an established breeder rather than a hatchery.

 

[SueT]

@Fanci Feathers Marans
If I understand correctly, they aren't even a recognized breed in the USA? But anyway it would just be for fun and to create a free range flock. They're supposed to be one of those breeds that excel at free ranging.
So Cackle's claims of importing breeding roosters and wanting to be 'instrumental in improving this breed and correcting breeding issues' etc, etc is to be taken with a grain of salt?

 

[jeria]

moisture is one of the causes of excess creosote buildup in the pipes

We never had an issue with it. We did burn some hedge routinely which may have helped with that as it burns so hot. We'd clean the triple wall once a year for when we weren't using the stove and never had much build up, just some normal soot very little creosote.

 

[jthornton]

Speaking of firewood, here is the splitter I built from left over steel drops and a Dodge K car rear axle. It's one Mean Green Splitting Machine.



JT