Okies in the BYC The Original

[CityClucks]

Buster, I enjoyed the banter about you streamlining down to keeping just two breeds of birds. I liked your comment about walking through sales looking at all the breeds and thinking "why?" Don't tell anyone, but I have done the same thing. Let me know how that streamlining goes for you.

Have you and Sue thought about going to the big poultry show in Shawnee in December? You're not on my list, but maybe you mentioned something about it and I missed it...

 

[Buster52]

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Yeah, they say to quarantine auction birds for 30 days, but with MG I don't see how that helps. I've been reading up on it. A bird can be a carrier and just be dormant for that 30 days and then still spread it to your flock.

 

[Buster52]

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What are the dates for that? If we can afford it, we are considering going to an ACRES, USA conference in Minnesota in December (yeah, my thinking exactly... holding a conference in the Arctic tundra in the winter. Whose idea was that?).

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Oh, I see the dates in your sig line. Yes, we'll try to make that.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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You can always bring in some Aseel on down the road if your cornish start having problems.

That's the foundation of the breed to begin with.

I couldn't have just two breeds either. I have about 20 breeds of chickens (not counting varieties of those breeds!), and one breed of duck.

 

[CityClucks]

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What are the dates for that? If we can afford it, we are considering going to an ACRES, USA conference in Minnesota in December (yeah, my thinking exactly... holding a conference in the Arctic tundra in the winter. Whose idea was that?).

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Oh, I see the dates in your sig line. Yes, we'll try to make that.

Most excellent - I will add you!

 

[BetsyOK]

Guineas were my very first poultry and will be my last, much as I love my silkies and OEGBs. Got them originally for tick control after our daughter got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite.

They are noisy at times--mostly when they're young--and they're rarely cuddly, but they are invaluable for tick, grasshopper, blister beetle and other insect control. They don't tear up vegetation nearly so much as chickens do. Their eggs are delicious, though small, and I'm told they are excellent roasted. It is my understanding that many of the fancy restaurants back east offer them as "pheasant," not a far stretch, as they are in the pheasant family.

Plus, they are highly entertaining, if you don't expect them to act like people, dogs, or cats!

 

[faerielady]

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Great. Now I need to change my avatar, if I can do that while at work.

 

[CleoChick]

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Cleochick,
Contact amber following is a link to her website. http://www.cactusrockfarms.com/poultry.html they have A and B seramas from a very good line and are not crossed with anything 26 a dozen plus shipping. She is outside of hot springs ar.

Thanks for the link. Still not sure I am going to tackle another project this late in the year. I would try and locate eggs that didn't have to travel as far. I have had a lot better luck with shipping eggs that didn't travel for days in the postal system.
Decisions, decisions...

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I have the same problem!

I haven't culled any of mine yet, but I do have one that definitely has to go. A beautifully marked golden duckwing stag that had the misfortune of inheriting slate legs.

I have tortured myself by letting him grow out.

 

[HennyPennies2007]

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Some men are just creepy and should be culled....