Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[rinlareine]

Cute EEs!! I had one that sorta looked like that little buffish chick, here she is at 18ish weeks

Ooooh, okay. Thank you! She's adorable. Hopefully mine turns out something like that

 

[Blarneyeggs]

It has been a very interesting week with the goats.

On Tuesday, one of them chewed through the wire that connects the electric fence to the charger -on purpose? Could they really think this through?

On Wednesday, my Lily kept jumping INTO the fence and tangling herself, after freeing her countless times, she got herself stuck, and I could NOT unstick her. After a frantic call to DH, interrupting his conference, I had to cut the fence to free her...she immediately jumped back in.

Tonight they are not even pretending to sleep in their field, they are currently on the deck.

I should be bathing chickens...but I don't wanna.

 

[motherhen71185]

It has been a very interesting week with the goats.

On Tuesday, one of them chewed through the wire that connects the electric fence to the charger -on purpose? Could they really think this through?

On Wednesday, my Lily kept jumping INTO the fence and tangling herself, after freeing her countless times, she got herself stuck, and I could NOT unstick her. After a frantic call to DH, interrupting his conference, I had to cut the fence to free her...she immediately jumped back in.

Tonight they are not even pretending to sleep in their field, they are currently on the deck.

I should be bathing chickens...but I don't wanna.

LOL, sounds like a few of our sheep. I put him in, he comes back out. He see's the dog, he goes back in. He is up in the farmers field eatting the wheat.. oops!! No wonder he is so fat! i am surpirsed he can fit through the fence. we need a good solar charger. BF said he was going to hook it up to 240... Fried sheep anyone? lol

 

[Gardeningmama]

I just had a casualty...

Earlier I let the ducks to the pond.. they came back with in an hr which I already knew something was up.. They where not acting right... So I did a head count on them... I was missing Dopy my crested pekin.... We had gone searching for him.. after some time we found him. He had floated to the end of the pond upside down.... :'( I couldn't find anything such as being shot... I think he may have been drowned by one of the ducks (unlikely) or by the geese.. (wild geese that are going to be nesting) I didnt think anything like this would happen! Nothing happened any of the other years.... And I am just dumbfounded. My heart is broken...............

That's terrible!! Here's another hug

It has been a very interesting week with the goats.

On Tuesday, one of them chewed through the wire that connects the electric fence to the charger -on purpose? Could they really think this through?

On Wednesday, my Lily kept jumping INTO the fence and tangling herself, after freeing her countless times, she got herself stuck, and I could NOT unstick her. After a frantic call to DH, interrupting his conference, I had to cut the fence to free her...she immediately jumped back in.

Tonight they are not even pretending to sleep in their field, they are currently on the deck.

I should be bathing chickens...but I don't wanna.

Hmmm...Should I be re-thinking the whole goat thing?? I am not known for my patience.

 

[cskotek]

Sounds like poor thing drowned. That will happen if they are held under water for too long by another bird on their back trying to mate them or fight them.

Thats what I am thinking.. So now everyone is banned from the pond for a bit unless supervised.

And thank you everyone for your condolences.

 

[cskotek]

I say plan for at LEAST an hour at that pet place! I can spend an hour alone in the fish room and touch tank! Lol but then again, I dream of the day I can have a saltwater reef tank... Maybe when I retire... 40 years from now!

Its been about ahhh 5-6 years since I have been there... so I may be there for a bit..

 

[beaglady]

I took some marginally better pictures of my "Ameraucanas". They're probably actually EE's and the feed store just gets them from a hatchery that falsely advertises, but do you guys have any idea what they're going to look like when they grow up? Turnip is mostly yellow, and looks sort of like she might be buff, but I've never had a buff chick and I don't really know. She's got some weird red and gray splotches on her back, if you can see them. Hortense is just a really fluffy chick (chipmunk?), and already bigger than Turnip if you can't tell.

My crystal ball sez that the one on the right will be white with black on the wings and hackles. Also black in the tail if a roo.

The one on the left almost looks blue. Does he/she look blue in real life, or is it more of a regular tan/brown chipmunk pattern?

 

[heatherscooby77]

What is the main difference between EE, OE and rainbow layers? Gets a little confusing after awhile.

http://www.ameraucana.org/history.html

The above link will explain a lot for you. The biggest difference is different breeds mixed together to make different colored eggs, EE,OE,rainbow eggers are essentially all the same. Which means they are mixes of a bunch of different breeds. EE are usually Ameraucauna crossed with pretty much any chicken. OE are a specific cross of Ameraucana and a dark brown egg layer. Rainbow layers are exactly what it sounds like, who knows what color eggs you will get from your birds.

 

[beaglady]

It has been a very interesting week with the goats.

On Tuesday, one of them chewed through the wire that connects the electric fence to the charger -on purpose? Could they really think this through?

On Wednesday, my Lily kept jumping INTO the fence and tangling herself, after freeing her countless times, she got herself stuck, and I could NOT unstick her. After a frantic call to DH, interrupting his conference, I had to cut the fence to free her...she immediately jumped back in.

Tonight they are not even pretending to sleep in their field, they are currently on the deck.

Stories like these are the exact reason I don't have goats.

 

[rinlareine]

My crystal ball sez that the one on the right will be white with black on the wings and hackles. Also black in the tail if a roo.

The one on the left almost looks blue. Does he/she look blue in real life, or is it more of a regular tan/brown chipmunk pattern?

They're both pullets, thank goodness. The one on the left its kind of a mishmash of every color. There's some gray, some weird browns, a bunch of tan, a tan patch on top of her head, and a little yellow. I think this picture is a bit better. (Is blue sort of like a gray?) She has a bit of a beard, too, I think.