Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[ColtHandorf]

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

They aren't very common down South. Usually some idgit shoots them.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

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.

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.

The mini half lines are separators?

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

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.

You have beautiful penmanship.

 

[Isadora]

Lol, the ducks are all weirded out by the fresh straw I put down this afternoon.

 

[Brooks_]

The cat seems fine with it.

 

[Isadora]

The cat seems fine with it.

Romeo usually tags along when I do the animals, including squeezing through the poultry netting to go with me into the duck pen. He got confused when I broke protocol and went behind the coop instead of inside it. He just kept meowing at me through the barrier.

 

[poultry4eva]

@Overo Mare have you started getting the ice storm yet?

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Stella's in the Christmas spirit

 

[Isadora]

Stella's in the Christmas spirit

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She's so cute

 

[Painted Calls]

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

Ditto