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PlaidBattleAxe said:
I'm so behind on all the posts!
1) To all those who are in the "hunt zone" with the shooter on the run, I hope you stay safe and that they catch that man soon. Such a frightening and tragic situation.
2) Wingstone--- if I were in your region, I would volunteer to help you. I've only killed/dressed a handful of CX (all this week), but I'm pretty handy at killing and butchering a deer by myself (it's pathetic, but I find the deer a whole lot easier to process than trying to dress out a chicken!!). I hope you get all the help you need and the task done, sounds like you've got some good people from here already lined up.
3)AnnInTheBurbs---love the new run! I'm going to start on my ladies' new one this week. I'm playing around with the idea of cattle panels in an arch over the top of the open run (like the one you've built) so that I can put clear plastic on as a roof but leave the sides open in the winter, do minimize the snow and such that will accumulate in their run this year. Any one have any suggestions?
4)To those at Fort Fisherlady----I only wish some place like that existed! So far I have thrown out our microwave (I had cancer and don't want to get it back, so now I'm the nutter who went "green"), and DH just finished restoring an old Glenwood range for me that I found on craigslist for $100----it's a dual wood burning stove with propane! Circa 1930. SO that means the next thing to go is my "normal" stove. We just tonight ditched our fridge and are using a 1920's ice box that I got last week at an auction-----DH built me a 10x10 root cellar in our basement, so between using that and the ice box and the freezer for veggies/meat that I don't wind up canning, we are set. I try and can enough food each season to feed an army. Our goal is homesteading and being able to produce/hunt/raise enough food that we don't have to buy any out of necessity.

I have a question that is probably going to sound really stupid-----When a chicken molts, do they legit lose ALL their feathers?? It's been in the 30s at night here, and I know my coop is suitable but I've got visions of cold naked hens, as it's already 1/2 way through September!! I've got 3 ladies who look to be just starting their molt as they've got lots of underfluff showing, and the coop has more feathers than normal on the ground.
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wow..you have really stepped into the whole "homesteading" thing with both feet!! Good for you
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...DH and I have physical issues, so we are limited, but try to make up our deficiencies with the "will" to be as self-sufficient as we can be...we are learning so much in our journey, like most, about ourselves along with all the other lessons...
So, your ice box actually takes a block of ice?...that is so cool..hahaha, no pun intended...and where in the world do you get ice blocks anymore??
Your stove sounds like the most awesome thing!!...You have to keep us updated on how it cooks for you!!..the regulating of a wood stove always interested me...we have a small wood stove, i haven't had the chance to use it..one of these days. Being able to do for ourselves in always a work in progress..and learning from others has helped us tremendously.

It would be awesome to have a "community"-"Fort-Fisherlady", in it's physical form as it is on this thread....so awesome, but I don't think my backyard is big enough..
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My birds are starting their molts also...every morning looks like someone has exploded....feathers are everywhere....they are coming out easily when I pick the girls up....
I do give them more protein during this time(molting)..also helps them get "bulked up" for the colder weather...hahaha ...as if these girls need extra around the bottoms!
I do believe that Hen-Bree is trying to do the broody thing again...what in the wolrd am i going to do with these nutty girls?! She has her chest all "oven-ready"....i am not in the mood for this again....geesh...
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troyer said:
A Sumatra cross cockerel.
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That dark mahogany is just gorgeous!!
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..no orange-y tint....I know a lot of BLRW breeders out there that would do anything for that right there!!!
 
Boy is Fisher Lady gonna be surprised when we all show up o inspect the fort.:frow

Checked on the dry skin bird, oil gland looks fine, really just appears to be dry skin...this is a fence jumper so it is possible that she got into something that she should not have....

Plaidbattleaxe, all I can say is WOW....I wish I could get rid of the modern conveniences, hubby would never go for that.... we have a wood stove that never gets used because he will no longer deal with firewood.
 
5 more hatched. That brings us to 23. With two albino chicks with red eyes. Lol
Two more pipped and are still trying to hatch.
So out of 29 set, 23 hatched and counting. Best hatch I ever had.
 
I currently have an excess of chicks & ducklings. Willing to make a deal for anyone willing to take a bunch of them. Ages range from just hatching to just over 2 weeks. Breeds include polish, silkie/sizzle, ee bantam/silkie and rainbow layers. There are a few blue slate turkey eggs in as well, the last of the year since the last hen stopped laying last week. There are also a few call eggs in & a bunch of anconas. I have eggs available for all of the above as well, except call & turkey. PM me if interested. I tend to lose messages in the thread...lol
 
Ss, are you willing to travel 4-5 hours? The Pennsylvania Aviary Society has their big (I am told it is huge) swap this coming Saturday. Pay ten bucks, and sell anything you want.
 

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