Maine

[mlowen]

Some of you may have already seen this but I thought it was hilarious!!

Please post it on the Natural Chicken Keeping thread, if you haven't already. It's awesome!

 

[ashandvine]

After you mentioned them when I was up your way I looked up the Kunekune online. They do look like a great pig to have around. Not too big. Easy keepers. And darn cute. Of course being a rare breed around these parts means they are out of my price range. Not that they seem too bad price wise but there is no way I could have just one. I guess I just really need to win the lottery.

I wanted to add that Dean, the man raising them, does intend to promote them and its in his best interest to sell them at more reasonable prices so who knows: lottery or luck. Maybe you could have just one and still get a pig? lol

Alright... I have a small issue. I have this sweet, young Seb gander who needs a home. He is a splash, not the white, I was after. Sebs are known to be sweet and pretty quiet. If someone already has a few who wants new genetics, esp if they are after colors, then he is your boy! Please put interested parties in touch with me. Geese are highly social so having him all alone this spring on top of his new hormones is going to be horrible for him and I am trying to get my breeding pens set up. Thanks. Here is a pic of him as of today.

 

[chickery-do]

I am looking if anyone out there knows of someone who has a Sliver Laced Wyandotte hen! I'd like to us her next spring and I'm having a hard time finding anyone! Please give me a shout or direct them to me. Thank you so much!

 

[Jazor]

No time to catch up, but heres a photo and video update of the little ones! Trying to get the "rare exotic" out here for a photo shoot.

Huddling on top of the brooder. I've since put cardboard on top to make cleaning easier.

Decided it was time for a bath evidently

Found our exotic here...

Whilst trying to photo the exotic, the others were far too interested in gettin in my face.

Snack time

 

[MEMama3]

No time to catch up, but heres a photo and video update of the little ones! Trying to get the "rare exotic" out here for a photo shoot.

Huddling on top of the brooder. I've since put cardboard on top to make cleaning easier.

Decided it was time for a bath evidently

Found our exotic here...

Whilst trying to photo the exotic, the others were far too interested in gettin in my face.

Snack time

Totally adorable. I'm hoping to do the chick thing next year. Hatching under a hen in the spring. I haven't had chicks before. Always started pullets or hens. I'm super jealous.

 

[lazy gardener]

Way too high on the cuteness factor for me. It's total torture to be trotting out chick pictures this time of the year. Have you no shame? All kidding aside, those chicks are adorable and I can't wait to get a few started next spring. Many long cold months between now and then. I've turned the girls into the garden. They're doing a great job with the clean up. Abby chowed down a huge tomato horn worm today. I watched as she methodically shook and squeezed the guts out of it, slurped them up, then ran around with the skin like it was some great prize before she ate it. They've also managed to find a few volunteer potatoes that I missed. Got about 7# out of one volunteer hill that was inadvertently buried in a new raised bed. They'll completely level those little beds within the next few weeks. Oh how I'm enjoying these little helpers!!!

 

[lazy gardener]

sorry, dbl post.

 

[lazy gardener]

Call me crazy. (You all don't have to do it at the same time!) But, I swear that some of my chicken eggs are still fertile. Just now, I'm finding some of the eggs with the small granular white spot on the yolk that would indicate an infertile egg. Some of my eggs still have the wider bulls eye that indicates a fertile egg. My roosters went to freezer camp well over a month ago. Any studies out there... or records set for continuation of fertility after absence of rooster???

 

[hoppy]

Call me crazy. (You all don't have to do it at the same time!) But, I swear that some of my chicken eggs are still fertile. Just now, I'm finding some of the eggs with the small granular white spot on the yolk that would indicate an infertile egg. Some of my eggs still have the wider bulls eye that indicates a fertile egg. My roosters went to freezer camp well over a month ago. Any studies out there... or records set for continuation of fertility after absence of rooster???

 

[MEMama3]

Call me crazy.  (You all don't have to do it at the same time!)  But, I swear that some of my chicken eggs are still fertile.  Just now, I'm finding some of the eggs with the small granular white spot on the yolk that would indicate an infertile egg.  Some of my eggs still have the wider bulls eye that indicates a fertile egg.  My roosters went to freezer camp well over a month ago.  Any studies out there... or records set for continuation of fertility after absence of rooster???

I believe its up to four weeks, but that's just word of mouth, no studies.