Michigan

[NovaAman]

And then, there are the Saxonys...

My girls look a lot like this too! SO, good old farm duck.

 

[Shamrock4]

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The other chickens did not pick on him.
Three weeks ago: I first gave him a bath with shampoo to get him squeaky clean, then I mixed an orange koolaid packet with a little water and poured it over him and made sure it was all over him. I rinsed him and blow dried him. Yesterday: I mixed a red koolaid packet and splotched it on him, rinsed him and blow dried him.

Modern games have amazing dispositions. They are very smart and active, but also are nearly fearless of humans and extremelly easy to handle. I have one old cock (the one in my avatar, though that picture was taken when he was young so now he has been dubbed. If you dont know, dubbing is removing the comb wattles and earlobes, which is a requirement for showing. That is probably the worst thing about them.) that knows how to walk on a leash, he lets kids bury him in a leaf pile, oes to a nursing home and its of peoples laps, and will let three year olds carry him around without a problem. I have hens trained to fly to my arm. They love free ranging, but they are so small that they would get eaten by hawks a lot. They lay medium (bantam sized) white eggs about every other day.


A pullet that I like. She needs to molt out her baby feathers and then I will show her.

What has been going on here on my little farm-

Ducky the muscovy is laying again in time to start saving the eggs to restart my farm!

I have moved all the roos to their own pen, so the girls will be pure when I move the girls to the right roos in a week or so. Right now, I want them to get the egg production up and going well before breeding them as I got 1000 lbs of breeder feed from the feed mill the other day. Very good stuff. Hens lay well and chicks hatch out healthy.

 

[Olive Hill]

I want Saxony Ducks.

What am I saying?!? No! No more birds!

 

[NovaAman]

lol. I say that too, Olive. AND YET! I am considering getting ducklings. Only I do not want to take care of them... I want the duck Mamas to.

 

[NovaAman]

Sham, those are some super cool birds!

 

[chicken grandma]

Sham, those are some super cool birds!

X2

 

[Mom 2em All]

morning Good Mom to em all, Figgured I might as well leave the first two words reversed. No one else is here to see it and it makes good sense. I suppose you are getting ready to go to work....... I'm enjoying some time up alone. Have a great day.

Good MORNING..and thanks for the compliment! I must have slipped out the door when you posted because I missed it this morning! I hope you have had a wonderful day!

My house is chicken free-ee, my house is chicken free-ee!!!

Should I and an OLIVE in here too?

Back to reading posts and formulating responses.

I can hook you up with some Uggos...

! I may also be interested in a Silkie (black one)

DONE! I will add the Uggo silkie - black to your group of six...or in Opa language, your 'enhanced six'....

Modern games have amazing dispositions. They are very smart and active, but also are nearly fearless of humans and extremelly easy to handle. They lay medium (bantam sized) white eggs about every other day.

Okay, I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDD a chicken that looks like a turkey vulture!!! A turkey vulture in high heels!!
PLEASE? will you have any available at Chickenstock?
Just a girl..cant have a boy..

 

[Olive Hill]

It definitely isn't to late. Beans require from 45 to 75 days depending on variety. There are two types of green beans, pole and bush. Personally I prefer the pole type since I don't have to bend over to harvest, and they tend to produce a 2nd and 3rd picking more often. Usually they will continue to blossom and produce beans until the first hard frost.

I like bush beans because I'm too lazy to erect trellises for them.

I usually grow Blue Lake Bush Beans (there's a pole version, too) and we harvest on them all summer long.

 

[Opa]

All this talk about Uggos, Vulture chicken, and semi-featherless birds, why not just make the leap and start raising this breed of chicken developed in Israel

Watch this video is you don't believe they are real.

 

[EeyoreD]

I thought that was some photoshopped joke, Opa.

Then I looked it up. I can't believe it's a real thing.