North Carolina

[MaryRuthLangdon]

I have to ask, just what is a Guinea Pig (nasty crossbreeding thoughts flying around in my head at this time

)
Scott

it is like a big fuzzy rat.... no cross-breeding involved... LMAO!

 

[BHep]

it is like a big fuzzy rat.... no cross-breeding involved... LMAO!

A cute tail-less rat !

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good Morning Everyone!! I found the LARGEST spider I have ever seen just hanging out on our porch screen this morning. The beast was as big as my hand (perhaps a slight exaggeration by one deathly afraid of spiders) and it was feasting on another spider.

I don't know if I can leave the house to go grocery shopping...what if it jumps on me?? LOL...okay, time to "man up" and get ready to go shopping, lest the hubby starves!!

Chicken question: So my lone chick (approximately 3mo old) - who is a rooster - is STILL on his mother's tail feathers (ie: still attached to her, follows her around, etc...) He will not go anywhere or do anything without her. I have been told this is not "normal" - and to top it all off, she still has not started laying. Is there anything we can do to "cure" this? Thanks!
Have a great day everyone

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning Everyone!

Sorry to have missed WCA, but I'm intending on coming next weekend! I've got a Buff Orpington roo and some lavender cockerels to pass on! And hopefully not bring anything home.

Scott, you may have heard a Guinea pig called a cavvy.

Went to the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday with my sis, who is an art professor. I was a disappointing companion. I'm far more interested in antiques of practical usage than paintings and sculptures that only the rich would ever have owned or had done of themselves. She really wanted to "educate me", but I started talking about the biological and agricultural aspects of some of the paintings, so she finally gave up.

I did get her to look at the collection of pikes and pole axes as weapons that had been used in past battles and killed people, and got her to notice the dents in armour, instead of just looking at the styles from one country to the next. Sometimes I wonder how we managed to grow up together and be so different. Regardless, it was fun...more for her than me as I don't like driving in big cities, and my GPS couldn't work there with al the skyscrapers. I literally could not see the sky while driving. That bothered me. I'm most definitely a country girl!

Back to Athens, Georgia today to take Sis home, then home Tuesday.

Enjoy the day, everyone!

 

[Moores6]

I have been working on another contest piece.
And I just finished. So here it is

The theme is red, white and blue.

What do you think?

 

[BHep]

I have been working on another contest piece.
And I just finished. So here it is

The theme is red, white and blue.

What do you think?

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

good to see everyone doing well so far today

we made t to Lake Tahoe......such a beautiful place
but that is some very cold water
we did manage to find a beach at the Great Salt Lake for
the kids to get in and have fun
today we take the kiddos to see Virginia City.......
an old silver mining town that has been kept close to
original if you don't count all the gift shops/tourist attactions

later we land at my sister's place in Rodeo,Ca.

safe traveling to you Meg and hope everyone else
has a good day.......miss you guys

 

[marlowmanor]

We gave the new broody the 6 eggs we got. We were going to set her up in a dog crate but there wasn't enough room in it for her to roam a little when she needed to stretch her legs so we went ahead and set her up in the broody box. She was ticked off at us for a while and even kicked the eggs out of the nest at one point which made us worry she was going to refuse to sit. We had to leave to go get some things to fix a light switch in the house and when we got back she qas settled on the nest with the eggs. So now the wait begins. Our hatch date should be July 16th. I am excited about seeing what comes out of this hatch as the breeds that could be in the mix are interesting. I may even get me another polish or polish cross!

I would so love that! Right now the plan is any roosters will be sold from this hatch. We are thinking about if we get another broody getting into hatching out things like guineas or turkeys and selling the keets/poults. We only have a limited amout of space for chickens and we are very close to our limit right now. I don't mind using the broodies to hatch eggs, it's less work for us but being able to make some money out of them would be nice too. Now I have to come up with a name for this broody. She is a meanie so I was thinking about something that goes along with that. I've been thinking about Helga!

Mostly because I picture this huge, mean German woman!

 

[HenThymes]

Hey everyone!!

Hope all is well. We have had a busy spring between family life, farm life, chickens, goats, taking in horses for a friend, building fence and building more fence, canning and more canning.... you get the picture.

Welcome to all the Newbies.

Chickens are good, I have thinned down some "pet" breeds to make room for show birds and projects. Currently have lavender bantam orps and cuckoo/barred bantam orps just about to laying age. Have some young lemon cuckoo bantam orp juvi's growing out that I will be crossing later this fall as well.

Oh and the chocolate girls, well they are getting very close to laying!!!
I am going to start compiling a "waiting list" for my chocolate orpingtons as the girls should start to lay before too much longer. These are bantams, will be selling them in pairs/trios. Cockerels will be black-choc splits, pullets will be chocolate. $200/pair & $275/trio Will be day olds, mereks vacc. with 72 hour guarantee.




Well gotta run, time to do chores and go pick clover and honeysuckle for more jellies!!!

 

[marlowmanor]

Hey everyone!!

Hope all is well. We have had a busy spring between family life, farm life, chickens, goats, taking in horses for a friend, building fence and building more fence, canning and more canning.... you get the picture.

Welcome to all the Newbies.

Chickens are good, I have thinned down some "pet" breeds to make room for show birds and projects. Currently have lavender bantam orps and cuckoo/barred bantam orps just about to laying age. Have some young lemon cuckoo bantam orp juvi's growing out that I will be crossing later this fall as well.

Oh and the chocolate girls, well they are getting very close to laying!!!
I am going to start compiling a "waiting list" for my chocolate orpingtons as the girls should start to lay before too much longer. These are bantams, will be selling them in pairs/trios. Cockerels will be black-choc splits, pullets will be chocolate. $200/pair & $275/trio Will be day olds, mereks vacc. with 72 hour guarantee.




Well gotta run, time to do chores and go pick clover and honeysuckle for more jellies!!!

So I assume if you are selling the pairs and trios as day olds that they can be sexed at birth?