Dixie Chicks

[ApiaryandAviary]

Merry Christmas.

 

[minihorse927]

Hi Dixie Friends
Hope you're all keeping well. Can anyone help me out by identifying what's happening here, I found her like this when I went to feed her today and I'm baffled

do you have a rooster? Looks like damage from him ripping feathers out while breeding. The yellowish dot is the hens oil gland.

 

[Paulandannmarie]

Yes we've got 3 that started crowing this week. We need to move them on. I'll go & separate them

 

[Beer can]

Going back after the Reishi, positive ID. Nothing else looks like them, same with the hard burnt looking 'bear turd' Chaga.
"Fortunately, there are no poisonous reishi look-alikes. In fact, there are no known poisonous polypores! So hunting for reishi is pretty safe."

I might not bother buying mushroom plugs in the spring, I've never bothered to look for wild ones before, why buy when you can forage? Both chaga and reishi are only used for tea, not edible, too woody. Reishi has been used medicinally for thousands of yrs. But there is some edible ones that are easy to identify safely.
Morel's in the spring, I've come across a bunch of them yrs ago, time to start hunting them. I planned on growing maitake also known as 'hen of the woods' they grow huge up to a hundred pounds and grow around here.
Same with another I was going to order plugs, chicken of the woods, also grows huge around here and they say tastes like chicken Lol. Chicken of the woods is used by some in vegan recipes as a chicken substitute.
Those three have no poisonous look alikes, there is a poisonous false morel, but it doesn't really look nothing like a morel, not hard to tell the difference.

http://everythingmushrooms.com/

 

[hennible]

Cool beer can
I'd like to wild harvest more and I will once the kids are bigger, ton of edible and medicinal thing to forage for.

Hi Dixie Friends
Hope you're all keeping well. Can anyone help me out by identifying what's happening here, I found her like this when I went to feed her today and I'm baffled

Hi there. Pretty sure Mini has you covered.
Happy holidays.

 

[Alaskan]

I love mushroom hunting... But we have NO giant edible ones.

I have always wanted a soccer ball sized puffball.

 

[perchie.girl]

Merry Christmas everyone

Santa is upgrading

 

[bamadude]

I like the ones with the bread colored top, purple gills, and the purple band on the stem. They are abundant here in almost every cow pasture.

 

[Alaskan]

Interesting dude, Are they giant sized?

 

[hennible]

No giant puff balls alaskan? They get pretty big here.