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CapricornFarm said:
I have been working on the quail feeder, and its done. View attachment 1296357
And i cut the hole in the side of the quail cage to install it, and painted the support board. Plus i started one more quail feeder with a new improved design. I think i am going to spend a lot of time in the workshop tonight.
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Nice! How do you attach them to the cages?
pitbullmomma said:
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I HAVE A BABY SERAMA!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!!! I came home from happy hour--not expecting much--and it was IN THE MIDDLE OF HATCHING!!!! I saw it being born!!!!! :ya :woot :celebrate :ya


This is seriously the coolest thing I think I have ever seen. I am not kidding. OMG, it's cute and tiny........I'm a MAMA!!!!!
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Congrats!

BantyChooks said:
Oh no! :( It seemed like that guy just couldn't die.

AWESOMEPANTS!!

Hi squatchers. I swear if we get any more snow until September I am going to rip my hair out and dance across the yard naked. :barnie We're still clocking in at near a metre with more on the way.
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Holy wow.. How are you even still alive? Do you use a snowmobile to get groceries?

BantyChooks said:
Probably. I had a drake this summer named Melody and a hen named Ralphie.
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I had a pullet named Steve that turned out to be a boy. And actual pullets named Damon, Dean, Loki, & Klaus. Oddly, their names all fit them. They don't know they're actually boy names.

FlyingNunFarm said:
@Anansi Good to know I'm not the only one who saves feathers. I put mine in a bag in the freezer. Just in case of creepy crawlies.
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I saved feathers from Jaiden. I do scrapbooking and figured I'd make her a page. Putting them in the freezer is a good idea. She was molting all over the place when I took her to the vet so I save what was left all over the floor and in the carrier. I also have some feathers from Olive to do a page of her for my daughter. It's probably super weird, but I don't care.
 
apryl29 said:
Holy wow.. How are you even still alive? Do you use a snowmobile to get groceries?
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No, it'd take me a good four hours to get to the grocery store via snowmobile, LOL. Roads are still mostly passable if you drive slow. Plus I have two and a half freezers of food, a fridge, a bookshelf of flour—weird measurement, I know—, and a bunch of canned/preserved other food... we won't be starving anytime soon even if we did get enough snow to keep us housebound.
 
Smuvers Farm said:
http://atpeacewithpink.blogspot.in/2014/11/a-tale-of-three-chickens.html
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Wow.. I can't even imagine having to take care of the long tailed birds.. makes me think of the movie Tangled.
I thought raw chicken was unsafe to eat. Sounds gross to me.. are you going to indulge in a Jidori next year?
I didn't realize that silkies had black skin, kind of unexpected. I knew the Cemani is all black throughout the body, but I never heard that about silkies. Is it more that silkies aren't typically a meat bird?
 
BantyChooks said:
No, it'd take me a good four hours to get to the grocery store via snowmobile, LOL. Roads are still mostly passable if you drive slow. Plus I have two and a half freezers of food, a fridge, a bookshelf of flour—weird measurement, I know—, and a bunch of canned/preserved other food... we won't be starving anytime soon even if we did get enough snow to keep us housebound.
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That's good to know. How big is your chicken feed stockpile? Do we need to worry about them taking you down?
 
apryl29 said:
That's good to know. How big is your chicken feed stockpile? Do we need to worry about them taking you down?
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Mmm, that 'stockpile' isn't very big at all. I usually have anywhere from 50--100 lbs of feed. I think I have 75 right now. I make sure to get an extra bag if we're supposed to have a week with a few snowstorms.

I use ~50 lbs a week. Maybe 40, depending on how many scraps they get. I also have some plain cracked corn they could be fed in a pinch.
 
I live near town, in fact nowadays the stores are 3 miles away. But it used to be we had to go to the far side of the next town to get to a decent size store. Back then the bridge across the river was a nightmare in the winter., and we went once a month in the good weather anyway.... So I still have the once a month mentality and am always stocked up until March on people food any way.. I go through about 150 lbs a week of poultry food so I do have to make a run for that. Unfortunately the local feed isn't cheap or fresh so I drive 150 mile round trip to get feed from a co-op mill. But they grind it on order and you have to order it 2 wks in advance and they are only open Mon- Thurs. .. I have too many poultry LOL
 

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