'ODD BIRD' blues ;)

[peeps7]

Do you still want to sell your NN's? If so, what color are they?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

We say the chicken hobby occasionally pays for the feed bill 'this week'.
Next week will be another thing.

In a month, one of those people will be be back to buy more birds --- simply because they are dumb as rocks and and can't keep a chicken alive more than a month (not my place to be judge or jury --- I offer advice and they disregard it).

There is so much old-time misinformation floating around and then there are people who claim to have knowledge that are blatant idiots:
I had a young guy (he was around my age) tell me today that eating that weed would give my chickens and goats worms.
One of my goats was browsing a patch of white clover (and this guy argued with me whether it was white clover or not --- he said it was not clover, but a worm inducing weed that he didn't know the name of).
So many people and so much 'mis'-information...
He also told me (and I shouldn't tell this) that BBReds are b-b (small / bantam) sized versions of of standard game birds (hence the b-b, you know, like a bb from a bb gun is tiny).
No, he said the BB Reds's are a thing unto themselves.
I said, I think I know what you mean and the breed is Old English Game Bantam and the color is 'black breasted red --- bbred' and he went right back into , "nope, you don't know much about chickens, do you. These are BBRed's and they are small versions of fighting chickens". I walked away because I'm not going to argue something 'I know is right' in my own dang yard. He was not a customer, just someone that was 'coming with a customer as a chicken expert', some expert he was.
He quizzed me about 'what you look for in heathy birds' (and all mine are healthy), but I'm already certain he is an idiot because of the 'bbred issue'.
Makes my head hurt if I dwell upon it.

I just 2 phone calls and all the birds are setled in their new digs. I'm glad I sent the chicks off with a 5lb bag of starter, the 'expert' was going to put them on scratch grains at 2 wks old.

Lisa

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Don't you just love people like that?

I had one guy try and tell me you need a hundred acres to own a horse.

Oh and this is good one... did you know that roosters fertilize eggs by depositing sperm on the eggs after they've been laid... you know liken to fish!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

My Naked Neck hens are all dark skinned and blue or black. Some are silkie feathered.
Not sure what you mean, peeps. I have Naked Neck hens I would sell, but none I want to sell.
That sounded like I wanted to sell NN's too, but I hadn't offered them for sale.
I sold a couple of Naked Neck cockerels for $8.00 ea, but it was mostly because they thought they were *rescuing* them from the grow-out pen. I have some 50-ish NN roos I'd happily allow to be *rescued* for $8.00 each, lol.

When the NN girls are laying, I offer eggs for sale.

Lisa