"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[michelleshenhouse]

LOL Can you send some sunshine to slidell. Still murky and cloudy here. I swear I just heard one of my chickens quack.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Sunshine today. My ducks and geese were loving the rain.

 

[TBJumper0514]

Hey guys, I'm looking for someone either near Covington or on the South shore (Metairie, Kenner or New Orleans) that may have some eggs that I could get cheep. My neighbor has a school and I'm going to loan her an incubator for a class project. I would give her some of my own eggs but none of my roosters are doing anything yet (still a little to young). I'm not picky, the eggs can be for any kind of chicken, any breed or mixed breed, I just need eggs that they can hatch. In fact you can probably have the chicks once they are done with them at the school.

I don't need them until around the middle of next month....say around the 10th or the 11th. Please let me know if you can help and what it's going to cost me for 12 eggs.

Thanks,
Chris

I will give them an assortment of eggs to hatch. Just let me know when they are ready, and I will bring you some.

 

[Chris Herzog]

I will give them an assortment of eggs to hatch. Just let me know when they are ready, and I will bring you some.

Cool thanks! I'll give you about a week or so notice but I know that it will be around the middle of next month.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

Just wanted to share an idea. A freind of mine has like 6 of these 4x4 boxes at his house so I decided to build one today. After bitties are in brooder a few weeks, put the box in the yard and put the bitties in them for a few days with lid crack for day light then open trap door so they can go in and out as they please. so this was my project today. 1/2x1/2 wire on bottom

 

[La Mike]

LOL Can you send some sunshine to slidell. Still murky and cloudy here. I swear I just heard one of my chickens quack.

I can here it now cokadoodlequack

I swear if the rain dont let things dry up around here I am gonna have to install floaties on all my chickens.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I guess all the rain and mud couldn't stop this lamb from being born on yesterday. She decided to drop it in the mud. I had to prepare a hay bed in their shed and carried the little lamb inside. The little bitty slept like a log throughout the night. Both mommy and baby are fine. The lamb that was born last month is showing signs of jealousy. This mommy was his "play rough" friend and she was always knocking him around and wrestling with him. So, now that she has her own baby, she hasn't been spending time with him or horsing around with him and he is feeling left out. Don't you know that little buggar has been crying VERY LOUD ALL day and ALL night since she had her baby. He is a spoiled brat and is jealous of the new baby. He cried all night long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Mike, since you are the duck expert and all around Mr. Know It All, I wanted to ask you something. This weekend as I was driving home, I drove past the crawfish ponds in my area and I saw what I thought were ducks swimming around. I turned around to try to take pictures but as I got close these "ducks" started running on the water. They were dark in color and it appeared that they had white/yellowish bills. I have know idea what they are. A friend told me they were birds but I said no way. It looked like they had webbed feet. I managed to take pics of them but the pics are not good. Take a look and let me know what you think. Whatever they are, they were absolutely beautiful.

 

[texaschickmom]

Hi Kuntrygirl!
I believe those are American Coots. And your friend is right, they are not ducks. They are in the "rails, limpkin, and cranes" section of my bird ID book.
BTW, your little new lamb is so cute. Will it stay dark light that?
Martha

Mike, since you are the duck expert and all around Mr. Know It All,

I wanted to ask you something. This weekend as I was driving home, I drove past the crawfish ponds in my area and I saw what I thought were ducks swimming around. I turned around to try to take pictures but as I got close these "ducks" started running on the water. They were dark in color and it appeared that they had white/yellowish bills. I have know idea what they are. A friend told me they were birds but I said no way. It looked like they had webbed feet. I managed to take pics of them but the pics are not good. Take a look and let me know what you think. Whatever they are, they were absolutely beautiful.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Hi Kuntrygirl! 
I believe those are American Coots. And your friend is right, they are not ducks. They are in the "rails, limpkin, and cranes" section of my bird ID book. 
BTW, your little new lamb is so cute. Will it stay dark light that?
Martha

Mike, since you are the duck expert and all around Mr. Know It All, I wanted to ask you something. This weekend as I was driving home, I drove past the crawfish ponds in my area and I saw what I thought were ducks swimming around. I turned around to try to take pictures but as I got close these "ducks" started running on the water. They were dark in color and it appeared that they had white/yellowish bills. I have know idea what they are. A friend told me they were birds but I said no way. It looked like they had webbed feet. I managed to take pics of them but the pics are not good. Take a look and let me know what you think. Whatever they are, they were absolutely beautiful.

WOW!!! That's cool. I just googled them and they look exactly like what I saw. They are soooooo beautiful. Who knew. So do these birds actually swim? Thanks for the information on this species. That is awesome!

Behavior

Probably the first thing you will notice about a Coot is its loud voice. It has a variety of loud and harsh cackles, grunts, and croaks. The most common cry is a loud “kuk, kuk, kuk”. The Coot is social and lives in flocks. You might see it in large rafts during the winter. The Coot’s head bobs like a chicken while swimming and walking and helps propel it through the water. This bird moves in the water like a duck. It can swim and dive up to 20′ and will feed by both dipping and diving. It feeds on algae, seeds, aquatic roots, snails, insects and small fish. It also will steal eggs from other birds. You might also see the Coot on mud flats and grazing on lawns. Because it is a heavy bird, it has to run across the water to take off, but has a fast wing beat in flight. It will display its white tail feathers when distressed and to give an alarm signal. It fights by grabbing its opponent with a foot and slaps the opponent with the other foot and bill.

This is exactly what it did. It RAN ACROSS THE WATER !!!!!!!! I was amazed to see this.

Check out the babies. I love the colors!!! I got this pic from online.



As far as my new little lamb, I'm not sure if it will stay dark. It looks exactly like it's father and the father was born dark and remained dark. I'm crossing my fingers it stays dark. And crossing my fingers for NO HORNS. The baby that was born last month HAS HORNS !!!!!!!!!!!!! I DON"T LIKE HORNS !!!!!!!!!!!! I'm scared of horns!!!