Hackle feathers are usually marked that way and aren't described in pattern markings. The pattern markings are the body/wing feathers. Exception for Colombian as the body is 1 color with the only other markings the black ring hackle feathers. This particular hen is one of the black breasted red breeds (i think). She has the salmon breast where a roo would have a black breast.
I'm thinking the same way if/when reach a point of rebuilding the coop.
Don't feed them at all. For thousands of years wild birds have survived w/o our help. I stopped leaving out bird feeders or hummie stations 3 yrs ago. & we keep catching rats. Those buggers can reproduce several times a year! Anything we can do to lessen the predator or wild animal/birds hanging around our property the better. Biosecurity has a whole new meaning since AI problems started in the USA!
Got my laugh for the day! Appropriate name
Yup! Millions of years, even (birds are literally dinosaurs)! We feed them for us, not for them. I still see lots of wild birds around the property foraging naturally, even though we haven't been feeding them in over a month. Birds know exactly what they're doing
Yes - I have stopped feeding wild birds for the last few years. It hasn't seemed to reduce their numbers actually.
X2 except I'm in the city, and the sparrows swarm the pomegranate tree.
