"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[mixedUPturk]

They'll be long done by the time I get there. I have a meeting til 1.

Oh well.

Say! At least now ull know when to scedual trips this way

 

[LemonMeringue]

A few days after that snake got in and killed my mottled pullet I had some eggs hatching. This chick was one of them. Mottled, frizzled and I think it's a female. Such a cute little chub nugget!

And our little Oreo isn't so little anymore. He is becoming quite the handsome dude.

We have some crazy molting going on here. Feathers feathers everywhere! We pick them up and put them into our compost. Our sweet Pidge only had a few flight feathers on each wing. And she is covered with pin feathers coming in.

Something interesting to note.
The Nutrena product Feather Fixer has a proprietary mix that prevents you birds from getting external parasites. Interesting. People use the FF often to help when birds are molting.

If anyone has any links to how the genetics for Wheaton works I would be very keen to read it.

 

[LemonMeringue]

I actually found one source that may help me get some genetic questions straight.

In case anyone is interested....

http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/

 

[LemonMeringue]

I can't wait until all my chicken babies are done molting!!! They always look so pretty right after a fresh molt.

And then of course it won't look like they are having pillow fights every night either

 

[96civic87]

I currently have a silkie thay went broody so i place 5 slw and 1 silkie mix×dutch eggs under her lol fre incubation. I also have 12 slw eggs in the incubator right now first time for both of these. Pretty stressing lol.

 

[luvmychicken]

Good morning everyone. It's is raining again and I have to go feed. Hope everyone has a great Friday.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Good morning everyone. It's is raining again and I have to go feed. Hope everyone has a great Friday.

Thanks! You too!

 

[Cody A]

I should not have posted this post.

 

[Cody A]

Thanks Cody. When the snakes and hornets go to sleep I'm going to work on pushing the woods back from my house. Our azaleas are super thick and over grown and full of sucker trees. It's long over due.

We've got pigs and cows on our "five year plan" so reclaiming the pasture will help too. 15 years ago the directors had horses, but after they left everything was left to grow.

I'm pushing for a hotwire around the bottom of our privacy fence, and one on the coop. My farm friend up the road lost 30-40 chickens to a coyote in the spring. She set up a camera and said if their gate is closed, the coyote walks to the gate but doesn't go through. If the gate is open, he takes chickens. So I'd imagine he'd gotten popped by a hotwire before.

Camping that sounds like a neat plan to have. Ya'll will get there one day, probably sooner than you think.

 

[Cody A]

Cody, you must be real busy lately, i hope everything is going good for you.

No, I really haven't been busy at all the past week or two Topdog. Been waiting for the weather to break and get some rain. It's so dry here. We need rain in a bad way.
I'm waiting for some wetness to plant winter rye for the chooks.