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[X2Farm]

Hiiiiiiiiii Yall!

Been busy here! Sorry I haven't updated yall on the Frog situation! She's much better! eating, drinking, roosting. She's living in my spare bathroom with another poor victim (my white crested blue Polish Roo Bandit, poor guy) and is healing up nicely!! I've got her booboo uncovered and smothered in ointment and theres no infection or complications aside from some goopy feathers. YAY! (shock collars will be here in a couple days!)

The Dellie bebies are doing GREAT!!!!

With as busy as I've been the last few days, they haven't had tons of attention, and I can still stick my arm down in the brooder and they'll all try and jump on and come see Ma!

They're just too cute! And oh so sweet!!!

We also picked up 3 pygmy goats this weekend

Bubba, Bella and Speckles! The kids were thrilled to see them, and are totally in love

I can't help it, I am too. They're the sweetest bebies!!!
Here's Bubba, bein a booger and gettin a taste of Aimee's shirt

Ian, with Speckles. She's only about 5 months old! A real doll

though still workin on bein friendly

And Bella is the midsize girl standing on the stall door. Her and Bubba are bout 1 1/2 yrs old. Gonna end up banding Bubba, as they're bro and sis, and thats a bit too close for breeding. But he'll stick around, as he's a sweetie!

I hope yall are doin well!!!!

 

[Cetawin]

Oh SnowHunter that Speckles is adorable I could just hug and rub her all day!

Yay for shock collars....now what happened to the polish boy? I am tickled that Frog is coming along so well.

Beth...Salmon it is. DH's birthday is so close, feel free to grab dessert. I will take care of everything else. I am going to make some fresh bread and side dishes...is there any particular veggie or food that you or hubby does not do? Oh yes and bring 2 gifts for Joleta. One for now and one for her xmas stocking.

 

[Cetawin]

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Oh no you have not made a mistake at all. We chat about everything...stay let us get to know you. Hopefully someone has PMd you and told you this is not a closed thread you are more than welcome. You can start by telling us all about your chickens...do you have any Delaware chickens? If not well you need some.

You have not lived until you have been owned and controlled by a Delaware.

Welcome to BYC and the thread.

 

[redfeather]

Haha, thanks guys... I just know that dragging up older posts is generally frowned upon, and this one hadn't been used for a while! (which I noticed after I posted!)

I just got a flock o' Buff Orpingtons... rather boring, I know. My poor 'roo boy is tailless. I was just looking at some pics of him from when he was about a year old, and boy, he was gorgeous. Now he looks like a rag.

He's a wonderful bird though, I do wonder if he is off his rocker a bit! One time I let them out and was trying to get them to eat seed that the racoons had dumped out of the bird feeders, so I was carrying hens over and putting them on top of it and showing the seed to them, and they were complaining at me and making a fuss, and suddenly Big Red (my BO roo) comes charging around the corner, clucking, growling, hackles up, dragging his wings, stomping.... and then he sees me holding one of the hens, freezes, raises his head as his wings sag and then he suddenly flicks his head confusedly, snaps his wings back to his sides and struts back to the compost pile, muttering to himself... LOL I don't know what he was doing! Apparently I wasn't percieved as an actual threat, and he thought the hens were just being noisy for no reason. Lol. At least I can bet he'll do his bet to protect the flock, eh?

(oh, my avatar is a pic of Big Red in his "prime")


Nope, I don't have any Delawares... I didn't even know what they were before opening this thread! I currently have nine B.O. chicks (about a week old), and am hoping to pick up some colored egg layers in the spring. I kind of want to get into raising my birds for meat, maybe try my hand at a little caponizing too. All of this is making me reconsider my decision to NOT become a veterinarian.... but I dunno... schools are super competetive, and I am not a super-motivated person. I think my GPA is currently 3.5 or 3.6 at the college, but that's going to change rapidly when I start taking Biology and Chemistry and (ugh) more Math...... I dunno. I'll have to think about it.


Edit: I just wiki'd Delawares... man, I do love that columbianesque coloring. I bet I'd never find those at the local co-op though! They just carry auracanas and rhode island reds, and straight run banties.

 

[joletabey]

KATHYINMO!!! See above post- there is someone else calling it "Columbian" !!!!

Redfeathers, where did you get the idea this was an old or closed post, we have lots of daily activity on it - we all check in every day! Except for Scott, who appears to have gone missing and won't answer my pm!!!!!!

I am crabby- working two days in a row is NOT nice for my chickens - they get the rush job.

Cetawin, dessert and presents it is!!

 

[Cetawin]

redfeather it sounds like you got yourself an excellent roo. He was doing his job...the rooster has two jobs...

1. Fertilize eggs; and
2. Protect the flock at all costs...even dying doing it


sounds like your boy heard the women fussing and he came charging around the corner to see if he needed to protect them...but saw it was you and went on about his business...that is a good roo. Well you need soe Delaware just because of their personality. They are good layers as well and listed as a dual purpose breed...there are several in this thread that eat their extra roos. The breed had all but died about and is now making a comeback...they are still endangered but not on this thread.

They are ubber friendly and very curious. Ya just gotta get some.


Beth...sounds like a plan. Boni's list had no grooming supplies on it so I am going to pick that stuff up and per the instructions of the demanding farrier...hoof conditioner, her own feeder & such. When I get your list then I can go get the rest of the stuff to go with her saddle. Meanwhile, my neighbor is bringing his tractor and extra fencing materials here Saturday morning and we are running a fenceline so she has at least a small outside paddock until the fencing can be redone in the Spring. Sarah is coming over Saturday to start working on Zen's stall so it won't be long before Joleta has company in the barn. Sarah says Zen is unhappy over at the new palce with the other mares...she has to fight them for her food and Zen is just not a fighter with her age and personality, she lets the other mares take her food. So, the excitement continues to build around here oh yes indeed. LOL

Saturday we are having a High of 46 degrees so it is gonna be chilly for her arrivals this weekend so I am glad she has her teddy bear suit on.

 

[Serrin]

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Oh Boy!! I better not hear anyone disparage BO's in my presence again! They're the breed that got me started and to this very day, they're up on one of the top rungs of my list of best chicken breeds around! Nothing boring about them at all! Each has their own distinct personality and quirks. I'm down to my last one of my original six girls and so wish that I had the time and space to add back another five or six to the flock. They're just so dang pretty!

But yeah, you definitely need some Del's! I have two little half breed pullets, [courtesy of Kathyinmo....a.k.a. Kathy] and believe me, even at half strength they are a force to be reckoned with!

You haven't lived until you've been owned by Del's! Do yourself a huge favor Redfeather, and get yourself some Delawares. And if you can't find them locally, just wave your hands in the air on this thread, and someone around here is bound to see to it that you get some good quality birds. Heck! Even the culls from this group are several steps above what you would get from a hatchery!

We're taking the day off from hunting today folks, so, I'm hoping to get some good pictures of Maggie, Lisette and Cosette.

It rained so gosh darn hard last night that our usual puddle in the driveway turned into a LAKE!

Thank heavens I had a pair of boots out here in the pump house with me, or I don't think I would have made it into the house dry footed last night!

Abby appears to be making yet another come back. At least the gurgling in her chest is gone, so perhaps her pneumonia is gone as well. I'm keeping her in the pump house all alone in case this was something communicable. And considering that the weather played a huge roll in her getting sick again, the best place for her to be is here in the pump house where it's nice and warm and very dry.

I am concerned that she isn't eating or drinking very much. She spends the vast majority of her day just sleeping or quietly standing in one place. But I have seen an improvement in her eyes. She no longer stares off into space like she's just waiting for the end. The sparkle is starting to come back and she's starting to talk to me a little bit more every day. Please folks, when you have a moment, say a small prayer for my little feathered friend. Thanks!

OK, time to go let the hooligans out and let the insanity begin for yet another day!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

 

[redfeather]

Oh dear... I know why I thought the post was somehow old... LOL...

I'm such a newbie here I keep mistakenly glancing at the "date registered" dates under everyone's names and thinking that that is the date posted. I will try not to do THAT again!

Ah, well, I guess I am just saying B.O's are kinda boring because it's all I've ever had. I come on here and see people with these beautiful blue and lavander orps, and even some lemon-blue cochins (amazing color!). I can remember, just barely, the time in my past when I was very, very young and we kept a large flock of B.O.s, RIR's, White Leghorns and like thirty meat birds (cornish rocks). But that was so long ago... lol, the most I remember is how the German Shepherd had her pen surrounding the coop in the woods, so as to keep weasels away. I also remember walking around the coop every few days with my grandmother, collecting windblown feathers... we would then go inside and wash them in the washing machine and I would play with them. *is all nostalgic all of a sudden*


Yeah, I "logged in" to my local poultry club and all, but they're website isn't very helpful or informative... I don't know how likely it is that I will be able to get local eggs for hatching. I do have an obnoxiously broody B.O. hen though... which is why I decided to let her hatch the nine little chickies we have right now! (also the hens are getting old... :'( ).


Yeah, Big Red's a pretty O.K. guy... I just wish he wasn't losing his feathers. One or more of the girls is a feather picker, but I can't figure out who... and I am super-reluctant to cull the bird with the best plumage or anything like that, since we have Big Red with no tail and a thinning neck, and then we have some of the other girls with thinning throats, naked butts (below the tail). I am sure we have pickers, as in the past we have had one bird nearly die do to it. Whats most confusing is I can find no evidence of mites on them, (even when we had a bird infested with mites six months ago, she died, but we dusted and re-dusted and pressure washed out the coop, and even then I couldn't find a single mite on any other bird), and they have more then adequate space in their coop.

 

[Cetawin]

Redfeather get some poultry dust and dust all of them especially near their vents and under their wings....then clean the coop out and dust everything in there. That should take care of any mites. If they are feather picking/eating, you need to increase their protein amount. You can ive them canned salmon (without the bones) or mackerel mixed with scrambled eggs a couple times per week and watch for changes in the feather picking issue.

 

[joletabey]

Cetawin, I am bringing a saddle, bridle, saddle bag, bridle bag. I still have to look at my bits, but I think I am bringing a D ring snaffle. You will need a girth and saddle pad for sure - mine got too chewed up!

We eat the normal veggies - beans, peas, carrots, broccoli, corn, lettuce, tomatoes, zuchini, winter squashes. NOT much into rutabaga, parsnips, turnips or brussell sprouts.

DH loves bread. Is there a favorite dessert flavor at your house, besides chocolate? heheheh