Icelandic Chickens

[Chickielady]

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Jake check out the fantastic article in Mother Earth News/June-July issue, entitled "Ketstone Species, How predators Creat Abundance and Sustainability"
It is a wonderfully written & imformative article.
Maybe on line ....

here it is!

http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-community/keystone-species-zm0z11zrog.aspx

 

[Chickielady]

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No way.

You have kids AND a life?

Maybe they are kid's Halloween Parties!

I LOVE Halloween!
But we have no goblins here, except these:
Gobbling all over the place!

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

I love those spiked hair doos on those two roosters Kathy transported. Both of mine have roos(not the single combed one) have top doos but after their combs got big they sort of layed down better.
Congrats on the chocolates Kathy. Now you will be hooked on another new breed!lol

 

[Chickielady]

Now Kathy will be hooked on BOTH kinds of chocolates!
I am trying VERY HARD not to get addicted to Chanteclers..............Crele Chanteclers!!!!!!!!!!!
Gorgeous Birds!!!!!!!

All my cockerals hatched from Mary have big doos........it is getting harder every day to choose which to part with..I am definetly keeping the spangled....and the red head (we call Popeye) then there is a Birchen with penciled cape & saddle feathers that had the most awesome wry tail which turned out NOT to be wry tail at all.
He is lookin' good!
I will get new pics tomorrow, it is dark/cloudy here & pics won't work good now.

 

[Chickielady]

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Thanks! I am wayyyyyyyyyy happy!
With the salmon & deer, we still have space for the Elk, and chickens we hatch & process, so we should be OK for winter here.
DH will be going down to NorCal soon to visit Dad..recently lost Mom as most of you remember.
Dad GAVE his Emus to Rosecomb Ryan that I found on BYC...and Ryan has BIG Cayuga duck eggs for me in February so that will be the next trip.
We are doing Christmas & Thanksgiving here in WA, this year.
Last year I was here alone cuz he was there, it was not fun.........

Outside:

What snow does to bird netting:

I had to get a broom & bundle up, and go under every pen & knock the snow off every half hour.

and indoors this is going on:

 

[Happy Chooks]

Now I'm really jealous - I LOVE elk meat. Not too crazy about venison, but elk is to die for! Have you ever made salami from 50% venison and 50% elk? It's fabulous. My stepdad used to hunt, he can't now that he's older.

And wow, that's A LOT of snow. Where is Raymond, WA? (as in Northwest corner, Northeast corner?..........this girl has never been to WA)

 

[Chickielady]

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We are on the SW of WA, on the beach, snow level.........love it here!!!!!!!
Yes Elk is to die for, but Venison is EXCELLENT!!!!!!
I have made much sausage.....but did not this time.
I was going to do a half butt of entirely jerky, but DH wanted steaks so I did not.
I have buddies here that do the Venison X Elk cross summer sausage, is that what you are hankering for??

 

[Chickielady]

Heads up Happy Chooks::
The best meat is Moose........OMG!!!!!!!!!
Dark to almost purple, and way past "to die for"
A single Moose round steak (off the butt) is about 2-3 foot across.
One.
Single steak.
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM !

 

[Happy Chooks]

It was a salami that the butcher made for him - I don't know how, but oh, it was so delicious. Jerky sounds great too.

Sea level AND that much snow?

 

[Chickielady]

Also for HappyChooks::::::::::::

There is a large herd, several herds, of Roosevelt Elk in the mountains east of Clear Lake, in Lake County, NorCal.
There is so many that they are trashing the new vineyards going in..oh what a mess they can make of a vineyard!!
Roosevelts are a bit smaller, have a longer face, more narrow..but none the less, we always have issue when leaving Lake County to drive East to I-5.
One time at 8 PM my daughter left to go back to WA & had to slam on the brakes.........a huge herd of Elk on the road, she counted over 50......we have seen many a car/truck towed off the pass completely crushed....and Elk laying dead on the side of the road.
I hate that road, and the other way St Helena pass to West...hate them both.
Lake County is in what we thought was a Cauldera..a volcanoe top...as the Lake has bubbles & what is seen now as hot water coming up from beneath, none the less a shallow lake fed off rainfall, period, it get nasty in the summer.
Anyone want to buy a house there?
I have one for sale!!