Cool Birds Scandiafowl. But I am not about to pay that for a chicken. Besides I have my Greenfire birds. I am assuming they lay musgravite encrusted eggs. I have my BA for my black birds. A BA is a beautiful bird with their cute little "white" toes.
Silkies also have black skin, black meat, black bones. They are used heavily for eating by the Asian community due to the belief that they possess a medicinal quality. I was told by one Hmong that their pregnant women eat Silkie soup every day in the last month of their pregnancy.
Speaking of weird birds, Bert's babies that turned out barred are now getting red mixed in with the barring. They look "different" I am afraid they are both roosters though. I think I only have the one girl from Bert for next years breeding. The barred babies do not have the body 'confirmation" I want in a toad, so they will be going to freezer camp.
The "red" you are seeing is called leakage, which comes from one of the parents carry a "red" gene that will be expressed when crossing or if poor selection is made when breeding pure. I get leakage on a lot of my EEs that have a Black Ameraucana father, and other colored hens, they start out looking completely black, but then as they start getting their grown up feathers, the leakage comes out in the shoulders and saddle feathers.
Minnie When I used the word "safe" in the food discussion I was in error. I meant it sarcastically, but sometimes it is hard to convey sarcasm in a forum like this. I should have said "the illusion of safety" sort of like the TSA at the airports. My grandkids "other" grandma refuses to eat my eats, because my chickens run around free and eat bugs and stuff so there is no way to be sure they are safe.
I know you are a smarty pants, hearing that, even when said sarcastically, sets me off a little
Cyrus I will be keeping a few extra creamette roos over winter, if you want to buy one to bring the blue diamond encrusted egg gene with it. I am sure we can work out a payment plan considering the diamond encrusted eggs you would be getting.
I am still planning on trying to get some Dominiques next year, but that will depend on what I do with fences and pens. I have no idea how much longer I will be able to keep birds so it might be a waste of time and money.
I have not slept well and am up for aspirin again, I have maxed out on tramadol for next few hours. I hope to get an hours sleep yet this morning, before I have to go to Duluth.
My guess is that the weather is impacting you. I have had some seriously nasty headaches and other problems stemming from my spine. Whenever we get storms and high humidity like we had, and big changes in weather, in general cause me all sorts of problems.
Phoenex Welcome to the Minnesota thread.. We do allow Wisconsin people here, but we require them to wear a Vikings Jersey to a Green Bay game in Green bay.
Blanch your point on atrophy is a good one. We are probably the only nation on earth that could be brought to our knees by terrorist opening a jar of peanut dust in a school ventilation system.
Or releasing a strain of Avian Flu to test the effectiveness of a certain antiviral vaccine to see if it would work or not.
I finally resorted to physically blocking it off completely all night long. Daytime I can't do anything.
