LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[fluffycrow]

Not a bad idea on the Contest! We do a Broodies and their Babies contest every spring around Easter. You need to enter Cruella in our next contest!

I never want to hurt Cruellas feelings, she's a Star in my broody book! ❤

I will enter Cruella of course, but I don't think I'll win anything, since the photos will not be too good

 

[Canadian Wind]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_egg_oven

 

[Canadian Wind]

Have you seen some of the brooders they found?

YUP! Absolutely fascinating! I love researching stuff like this.

 

[TwoCrows]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_egg_oven

Wow, I never gave it much thought, they made a huge production out of hatching eggs! Thanks for this great link!

 

[TwoCrows]

I will enter Cruella of course, but I don't think I'll win anything, since the photos will not be too good

I for one would love to see your photos entered!

 

[fluffycrow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_egg_oven

OK that's so cool! I love stuff like this

 

[Canadian Wind]

OK that's so cool! I love stuff like this

I know, right?? If you do a search on them, there's all kinds of articles that are much more in-depth.

 

[fluffycrow]

I for one would love to see your photos entered!

Thank you! I will enter a few photos for sure, I just don't know if they'll be winner material. Hopefully I will enter a few photos of one of her chicks who has also gone broody and hatched some babies by then!

 

[TropicalChickies]

I don't think most of them would survive simply because of environment. Here where I am, if I didn't feed them in the winter I doubt they would be able to find food.

That being said, if ever something happens and we're thrown back to the stone age, I'm getting myself ready to be able to give the chooks and ducks subsistence over the winter, so they can provide me with subsistence through the year. And that also means breeding for broodiness. I won't keep any animal that can't reproduce on it's own.

Although I must say I am *very* interested in the ancient Egyptian incubators...

Well, of course most of them wouldn't survive...there aren't supposed to be 35 billion chickens on Earth. The amount of biomass chickens (and cows and pigs) constitute relative to other mammals is incredible! Nature would deal with the overload really quickly. Like chickens would probably continue to exist in areas warm enough for them to forage all year, but not elsewhere, as you point out.

And it wouldn't even take going back to stone age conditions. Just the pre-industrial age (like 300 - 400 years ago) would be plenty to reduce bring their populations down to a less absurd number.

I must look up these Egyptian incubators... history is my jam.

 

[TwoCrows]

Thank you! I will enter a few photos for sure, I just don't know if they'll be winner material. Hopefully I will enter a few photos of one of her chicks who has also gone broody and hatched some babies by then!

My photos have never won anything in these contests either. But everyone loves broodies and their babies, we all love to see them regardless of the photo quality, it's just fun to be a part of the contest. All broodies and their babies melt our hearts.

Oh and yes, more babies please!!