Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[Brooks_]

You have such nice handwriting.

So nice, even I can read it.

 

[ColtHandorf]

You have such nice handwriting.

Why, thank you!

So nice, even I can read it.

I do try.

 

[Isadora]

The bacon is done!

Now it has to sit in the fridge for about three weeks and then I can freeze it.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I forgot to say, I saw a bald eagle on the way to work this morning.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Technology is on my nerves today. My wireless mouse stopped working, so I tried another one and the scroll wheel didn't work on it and it is super fiddly. Then the wired mouse wouldn't work, so one of the USB ports on my third monitor is out. So now I have a mouse cord stretched all the way across my desk and it is making me crazy! I'll have to fiddle fart with crap once work is done and steal a monitor if needed.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Just in English Orpingtons I have the following:

- Black
- Black Mottled
- Blue
- Blue Mottled
- Splash
- Splash Mottled
- Mauve
- Mauve Mottled
- Buff
- Chocolate
- Chocolate Mottled
- Chocolate Cuckoo
- Lavender Cuckoo
- Gold-laced
- Chocolate Gold-laced
- Isabel Lavender-laced
- Lavender
- Lavender Mottled
- Recessive White
- Red
- Silver-laced

I plan on working on Lavender Silver-laced and Blue Silver-laced too. Plus there's the Seramas, Araucanas, and Sicilian Buttercups.

If my math is right I need those many pens.
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If it goes according to plan…
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That many large pens. Then I have six half done that the smaller groups of birds can go into. Plus the original two pens. And the three pens in the barn can be reserved for the waterfowl.

I'm so annoyed. I know they are all going to be mixed geese. I have no idea if they'll go back and breed in the spring or not.

What are the middle lines in each pen? A coop wall?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Just in English Orpingtons I have the following:

- Black
- Black Mottled
- Blue
- Blue Mottled
- Splash
- Splash Mottled
- Mauve
- Mauve Mottled
- Buff
- Chocolate
- Chocolate Mottled
- Chocolate Cuckoo
- Lavender Cuckoo
- Gold-laced
- Chocolate Gold-laced
- Isabel Lavender-laced
- Lavender
- Lavender Mottled
- Recessive White
- Red
- Silver-laced

I plan on working on Lavender Silver-laced and Blue Silver-laced too. Plus there's the Seramas, Araucanas, and Sicilian Buttercups.

If my math is right I need those many pens.
View attachment 3350535
If it goes according to plan…
View attachment 3350537
That many large pens. Then I have six half done that the smaller groups of birds can go into. Plus the original two pens. And the three pens in the barn can be reserved for the waterfowl.

I'm so annoyed. I know they are all going to be mixed geese. I have no idea if they'll go back and breed in the spring or not.

I think they might breed again if you incubate and don't have them brood. But that's silkie logic, I don't know if geese are the same or not.

 

[ColtHandorf]

What are the middle lines in each pen? A coop wall?

A divider...I'm not wasting money making that a solid wall. It'll be metal three feet up from the ground and then netting the rest of the way.

Like these:

But prettier. The back won't look like that either. It'll be completely open or partially closed as shown by the line halfway across the roosting area.

I think they might breed again if you incubate and don't have them brood. But that's silkie logic, I don't know if geese are the same or not.

Geese are seasonal layers. Some of the geese derived from Swan Geese (Chinese most notably) will lay twice a year, in the spring and again in the fall. Mine have only ever laid once in the spring. Of course, they lay more if I pull their eggs and don't let them set. My point is that come spring, when they should be laying and would be separated in order to not produce mongrel goslings, I have no idea if they'll lay. As it stands now, I can bet good money, none of the goslings developing are pure.

 

[poultry4eva]

I forgot to say, I saw a bald eagle on the way to work this morning.

We see bald eagles a lot. We have quite a few nesting pairs around

 

[Bonkerelli]