Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[NovaAman]

Silly, Here are a pair that I kept for my breeding. I love the girl. She's just so... Prissy and girly looking. Blue boy has barring thats really started to show up. The pics are 2 weeks old, and I can't believe how much the cockerel has changed since then. His tail is so much more now... Soon both boys are going to have to go in to a bachelor pad. I am going to wait till next spring at the very earliest before I let them breed. They'll be a year then, and maybe I will be able to find a new lemon blue lady by then too.

 

[preciouskitty]

A fellow grad student did a lot of research on bat poo. Turns out there is a real biology job entitled "scatologist".   
Insert all potty humour jokes here.

Actually, I knew that!

Wasn't allowed to swear as a kid...BUT, my GF was Greek..and "scata" meant, well "poo". But when they used it, well you catch my drift. So that is what I would use as a teenager...

And, I let ya guess on "bovine scatology".....we use that one at work a lot....

 

[NovaAman]

OH... I forgot... I got some eggs from a new layer... I noticed on them blue lines... they are harder to see in the picture, and at first I was wondering if my kid was out in the coop drawing on them with a blue crayon, LOL, but it was only on the white eggs.

 

[NovaAman]

Interesting sky cover the other night...

 

[Folly's place]

Nova, those are beautiful birds!!! Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Nova, those are beautiful birds!!! Mary

 

[SillyChicken]

Silly, Here are a pair that I kept for my breeding. I love the girl. She's just so... Prissy and girly looking. Blue boy has barring thats really started to show up. The pics are 2 weeks old, and I can't believe how much the cockerel has changed since then. His tail is so much more now... Soon both boys are going to have to go in to a bachelor pad. I am going to wait till next spring at the very earliest before I let them breed. They'll be a year then, and maybe I will be able to find a new lemon blue lady by then too.

They're beautiful! Should be some interesting colors if you breed them. The little hens are quite feminine, I call the white one "little dove".

 

[NovaAman]

I was actually asked if they were doves by a Canadian couple that stops by to look at the birds when ever they are in town. They buy eggs too.
I LOVE Mr. Ed...

 

[Opa]

Culling birds is a necessary task but it sure is a shame to cull beautiful birds. I simply had too many Welsummer cockerels so today I sorted thru and kept the best looking one. After dispatching the rest I took them to the Howell Nature Center where they will be feed to the raptors they are rehabilitating. At least some good will come of their demise.

 

[Amy PT]

Opa, that's a great solution.

These bird photos are just beautiful!