P.s. it seems these Tournaisis is not a strong breed. Both hens died quit young (4) . And not because of a predator. My guesses: internal infection after laying shell less eggs for sone time and hart attack or stroke.
too much inbred?
. I'm more a dark grim than a funny poster!Mine don't fly either. Vanille is perched on my partner's shoulder. They also really love grapes!My layers prefer a grape diet in autumn.
My chickens don’t fly into the cherry trees. Maybe it’s a bit too high , or they don’t try this out of respect for the birds that claimed the cherry trees. We have lots of pigeons, sparrows and blue jays in our garden even before the cherry’s turn red. The chickens do search for leftover on the grass. But now they prefer the grass seeds we scattered to pimp the ‘lawn’.
I think a lot of species and breeds nearing extinction are so for entirely natural reasons. Fussy eaters head up the queueP.s. it seems these Tournaisis is not a strong breed. Both hens died quit young (4) . And not because of a predator. My guesses: internal infection after laying shell less eggs for sone time and hart attack or stroke.
Maybe
I do hope the rooster didn’t pass on any genetic failures. I gave him away to a breeder who was very happy with him.
And the fewer there are left, the more likely those trying to save them will have to breed closely related individuals, with genetically undesirable consequences.Interesting; so that's equivalent to English 'good grief' (whose origin I don't know).
I did, and that's really sad, but the way you expressed the first bit was hilarious and I think we all like to focus on the positivesbut I then understood no one read the second caption
I'm french. I will always focus on what's wrong no matter what.I did, and that's really sad, but the way you expressed the first bit was hilarious and I think we all like to focus on the positives
It seems to vary in composition but essentially from the types I've seen it's pretty much the same. This is why I have reservations about just how much better it is than some of the old school chick feeds.
The more experience I acquired the more like Gaston's view I adopted.The eggs broody Chipie is sitting on, both Chipie and Théo, and the advice on the egg-bread mixture for chicks come from a 75 year old farmer, Gaston.
He doesn't view his animals like I do mine at all. They are livestock and have no name except for the dogs. He does care a lot about them, and this has always been the way he spends his whole days, but he cares for a flock/herd, and he will always give priority to overall vigor over saving one individual. For example he will go through a lot of trouble and time and pull some pretty disgusting tricks of the trade to get a motherless lamb adopted by a ewe, but he doesn't bother to treat a lamb with vitamin deficiency which is very common and easy to treat.
In his way of thinking using a homemade mixture to feed chicks makes sense because time for preparation isn't a criteria and the broody will indeed take over and the chick will learn to forage for itself, whereas using medicated starter definitely wouldn't. I'm not in the same mindset and for my chickens I wouldn't value public health above each individual life
The chickens in Catalonia loved the wine grapes that grew there.
My chickens don’t fly into the cherry trees. Maybe it’s a bit too high , or they don’t try this out of respect for the birds that claimed the cherry trees. We have lots of pigeons, sparrows and blue jays in our garden even before the cherry’s turn red. The chickens do search for leftover on the grass. But now they prefer the grass seeds we scattered to pimp the ‘lawn’.
Chlorhexedine.
Since he is talking about the gizzard, I think this "grits" must be the plural of grit (little stones for the gizzard to grind food with.)
