Michigan

[Shamrock4]

Modern games have amazing dispositions. They are very smart and active, but also are nearly fearless of humans and extremely 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..
Sooooooorrrrrrrryyyyy, I cant go to chickenstock. I am 15 so I cant drive.

Quote: I think the healthiness really depends different strains. I have heard things like "Moderns are more susceptible to mareks disease than other breeds of poultry" and "when a modern gets sick, it usually dies" etc. yet I have never had one case of mareks, and I have only one that I raised ever die. I give mine a little heat in the winter, but I know people who dont use any heat at all. My original birds were from north Carolina, and they never have done well in the cold, and I lost my original black cock to that weakness. The ones raised in MI, though, are very hardy. I got my original birds from the best modern breeder in the country and I have never introduced any other moderns into my flock, because mixing different strains would probably ruin them, so I couldn't tell you about anybody elses strains. So I believe moderns raised in MI. vs. NC, are much hardier, even if they are the children of the NC birds.

I tried to say this earlier, but it didnt work.

Originally Posted by Farmerboy16

Quote: You could also try cayenne powder in their food, 1 tsp per cup of feed. It is very good for them, it increases metabolism and reduces stress, which really brings the egg production up. They cant taste the hotness so it wont burn their tongues like it would ours. Good luck.



Okay, are uggos naked necks?



I am seriously going to try and create a naked necked modern game, by crossing a modern with a naked neck, crossing naked necked offspring back to modern, etc.
You can laugh, but I am serious.



Someone said something a few days ago about their chicks being picked on very badly. I had this happen to a chick last year and she survived and healed fine. She never grew feathers back in that area (which was a ring around her head, so she has a little tuft of feathers right behind her comb) so her name is Baldette.



This is the child loving rooster. I'm telling you he loves the attention!

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Yes chairs by the coop are a must! That is why I built it so big. I had to be able to sit in the run with the chicks!
Originally Posted by Stacykins

Farmmom, I want to put up something like that, but maybe a duplex

I thought about making the whole top the coop and putting two big doors on it and one on the bottem to clean... but I wanted to sit in the "run" with the gals. the whole thing is 8x4 the coop is 3x4. I would like to see what you had in mind. PM me or post if you would like to share.

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.

I had to remove the picture cause I couldn't look at it anymore!

Like Mom2 I would have to make that thing some clothes... do you think it could fit in premie clothes. It could have a whole Carters wordrobe at my house!
That would make it real easy to cook up though...

Well it appears that the Uggos and Gravy were holding back on me. I found 7 eggs above the garage coop. They were going through the Bryan Hole and laying their eggs up there. I found blue from Gravy and 4 cream colour from the Uggos. All of the eggs were 34 - 38 grams (not ounces), so I suspect that big Uggo egg is a double-yolker.









Bee hive painted and set.

Ha Ha Ha ... go ahead... pick on me. I deserve it!

Hive looks great!

Got the WC painted. Including the ceiling. Sure is brighter in there. Now I just need to get a new floor. I hate the floor that is in there. I don't understand this textured laminate. Why would you have a textured laminate in a bathroom. Hell, why have it at all?



Thats one sad looking chicken.

I was so happy when my bathroom was finished!
I feel so bad for that necked lil thing!

Sam,,,,



that chicken is too much, even for me..even for my love of Uggos, and sphynx (naked) cats, and skinny pigs (naked guinea pigs)..I just couldnt do one that looked like it hopped out of my refrigerator and came back to life.

And that poor sunburned chicken!!!!! You would have to lather it with gravy every day to keep it from burning.

Wonder if it smells like baked chicken on a sunny day?



Nope..I just couldnt do it. Id have to put little t-shirts on it..hey.......

Why not people put diapers on their chickens!

That chicken from Israel is going to haunt me in my nightmares.

Mine too!!!

Well tomorrow is my arraignment in the 21st. district court. Wish me luck.

I just spent an hour on the phone with my friend who works for a big-shot law firm downtown. She is more worried about this than I am. I mean I'm taking it seriously but I'm not worried. Anyway, she gave me a couple of names to drop if need be.

If y'all don't hear from me tomorrow, that means that I've been jailed.

But I'll let everyone know what takes place.



Now that it is dark, I'm going out to move the bees to their new home. And to check that the hens are in the coop proper and not up in the rafters.

Give em h3ll! I mean... behave.

So there is a chance you could be cooped up.

 

[RIRJen]

Hee Hee.

I REALLY do have enough of them but couldn't resist LOL. They are soooo purdy.
I have that going on under a hen. My bator is due next Monday.

Ya, one of my SG's went broody and I'm thinking of throwing some sussex eggs under her. Right now I'm hatching every tuesday

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

You could also try cayenne powder in their food, 1 tsp per cup of feed. It is very good for them, it increases metabolism and reduces stress, which really brings the egg production up. They cant taste the hotness so it wont burn their tongues like it would ours. Good luck.



Okay, are uggos naked necks?



I am seriously going to try and create a naked necked modern game, by crossing a modern with a naked neck, crossing naked necked offspring back to modern, etc.

You can laugh, but I am serious.

Yessss join the uggo lovers!!!!

One of us! One of us!!!!!

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Ya, one of my SG's went broody and I'm thinking of throwing some sussex eggs under her. Right now I'm hatching every tuesday

That is a lot of babies!!!

 

[teeville5]

What a beautiful day we had today. Too bad it started with one of my headaches thanks to DH letting me sleep too long this morning. Do any of you get horribly bad headaches if you sleep more than 8 hours? Everyone here thinks I'm weird because I do.

We started our mudroom remodel project today. It won't be anything fancy, but it is badly overdue. We figured we had to do it if we plan to sell any of our eggs soon which we need to do as we can't eat 2+ dozen eggs a day. The eggs are building up and seem to be everywhere. I do sell about 6 dozen a week to co-workers and give some to family, but that barely makes a dent. So we cleaned out the mudroom and are going to paint, re-floor, etc etc and add a mini-fridge for the eggs we're going to sell.

 

[RBahmer]

Ya, one of my SG's went broody and I'm thinking of throwing some sussex eggs under her. Right now I'm hatching every tuesday

I think this is the only set I'm going to do in the incubator this summer. I have 78 eggs in there and I believe this will be the only one I am going to do for myself. I promised a friend of mine that when my chicks come out of the bator I would set some of his Americauna eggs for him though. If my silkies lay for me and then go broody I think I will let them set. And if my cochin goes broody I will let her set.

 

[ladyfeather]

Teeville: If I sleep too long I wake up aching and cotton headed for the rest of the day. My husband says it is because I don't sleep enough regularly and need to drink more water. He's right on both but I can't help but think the muzzy feeling is just a messed up sleep cycle.

 

[Shamrock4]

Quote:
My neighbors who hd never seen chickens before they moved here and are city people saw poor Rainbow and said "I love your stuffed animal. Wait.... IS THAT REAL!!! EEW! LOOK AT ITS NECK! WHAT IS THAT!! GROSS!!"
I said "hey, he can hear that and he's very sensitive."


By the way, I have converted one of them and he is pouring over my Backyard Poultry magazines. And has come to me and said "I want these and these and these and these and these and also some layers. What kinds if chickens are they all?"

 

[Juise]

Well tomorrow is my arraignment in the 21st. district court. Wish me luck.

Good luck! And nooo, I am not getting ducks, even though you taunt me so. Man, they are so cute around the tiny one, and they look so happy in the sink. At least, I am not getting any ducks yet. How big of a pond do I have to dig if I don't want to drain and clean it every week?

And keep your sticky fingers off my Harley!

Oh! And I just peeked in the bator and there was a little bit of this

going on...again!

Yay!
Okay, that's all I've got, I'm too tired. Busy days. So much work.