"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[LemonMeringue]

Speaking of molting. I have been seeing some pics of chickens that their owners say are molting. I am talking half of their feathers fell out at the same time!!! Whats up with that? I have never had a chicken look like that. Its shocking to look and. Poor things. So it has me wondering if maybe it has something to do with climate maybe. Maybe because our climate is more temperate they molt in a more gradual manner??? Or does it maybe have to do with the chickens diet? Or maybe my chickens have just gotten lucky to not have a naked molting booty.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Hey everybody !

 

[CackedNut]

Hey everybody !

 

[Angelicisi]

My girls molt in small amounts. Their over all look is rougb when they start but from tattered old feathers, no balds spots, yet? And after a fee weeks they are preening new feathers
I was thinking climate...no need to hurry up?

Speaking of molting.  I have been seeing some pics of chickens that their owners say are molting.  I am talking half of their feathers fell out at the same time!!!  Whats up with that?  I have never had a chicken look like that.  Its shocking to look and. Poor things.  So it has me wondering if maybe it has something to do with climate maybe.  Maybe because our climate is more temperate they molt in a more gradual manner???  Or does it maybe have to do with the chickens diet?  Or maybe my chickens have just gotten lucky to not have a naked molting booty.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I got a text from the lady who I sold my bottle fed lamb to and she said that he is doing wonderful with his "new job" (the petting zoo). She said that he is getting along very well with all of the other animals and the kids. She said thht he is spoiled rotten but then again, I already knew that. I'm so happy that I found him a new home because I wouldn't have been to take him to the butcher and I couldn't keep him either. So, it all worked out.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I got a text from the lady who I sold my bottle fed lamb to and she said that he is doing wonderful with his "new job" (the petting zoo). She said that he is getting along very well with all of the other animals and the kids. She said thht he is spoiled rotten but then again, I already knew that. I'm so happy that I found him a new home because I wouldn't have been to take him to the butcher and I couldn't keep him either. So, it all worked out.

 

[kuntrygirl]

The ants are back and I"m not happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have been growing almost all our food, now for about 7 years. I am old as dirt and was on over a dozen medications and a heart monitor, told by several doctors that I would be in a wheelchair for life, within 6 months. I knew I had to do something and had gardened 100% organically, back when my younger daughter was allergic to baby foods in the groceries, among a lot of other things. Doctors through their hands up and said she was allergic to the commercial fertilizers and pesticides and no one made organic baby food. Back then, hardly anyone knew what ORGANIC was, 40 years ago. She is now a mother with a very healthy 11 year old of her own and gardens Organically. She comes and gets rabbit manure for fertilizer, along with wood ashes, etc. After I got to thinking we are what we eat, I started raising our own meat, too. Now 7 years older, I am on no meds, no cancer, no heart trouble, no wheelchair, not even a cane. We eat well on the animals I raise and am healthier than I was in the 90s, thanks to god and healthier eating. I only eat biblically clean foods, as God made these bodies and told us how to keep them healthier! Shellfish and Pork will shorten your life and make you sick! They are as bas for you as eating a buzzard! I grew up on them, until I learned better. I can get pork and Shrimp, oysters, crabs, crawfish, catfish, etc, for FREE, but won't touch it!! I also do not buy any food I don't grow myself from outside the US and am against GMO foods!!

My family does not eat pork. I haven't touched anything with pork in it for about 8 years now. I like my pigs extra, extra, raw! I can't stand shellfish, or fish much in general.

He is so cute!!! Is his name bacon?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Well, guess what?
I realized 2 days ago the lavendar Ameracauna broody had kicked the other hen off the nest. She won the broody battle to be the only Mama.

 

I went out at lunch to bring her some water since she won't leave the coop, & she growled at me like a dog & something about the way she was all hunkered down & fluffed out.....I picked up a stick & she latched on to it like a striking snake & I quickly reached in & flipped her off the nest -- a little black chick w/a yellow spot on top of its' head was looking at me.

 

She was screaming & pecking & flailing at me w/her wings & I turned her loose & she leaped back on that nest & growled at me again & gave me a serious stink-eye.

So, she is successful.

 

Now the neat twist is that this chick is a breed variety I don't even have. It is a male Black Copper Marans. How did that happen? Because Russ, where my Cuckoo Marans eggs came from, said he had out-crossed his Cuckoos on his Black Coppers to deepen the dark brown egg color,so there was a chance of a "throwback". Sure enough happened!

 

I'm sorry that it is a roo, but it is the first chick ever hatched out by a hen & not in my 'bator, so I guess it stays. Maybe we'll luck up & she'll hatch some hens. I hope so.

 

Now if only my Mama guinea would show up...

No sign of mama guinea yet Terri?

 

[bugglesmommy]

My daughter named her Punkin'.