lol dang auction bird. My dad bought and didnt know till someone told him afterward
Not that it's my business but how much are you paying for auction birds? I have a whole yard full of birds. If your interested, when it's gets cooler I could ship them to you. It's kinda expensive to ship( $60 per bird, $90 a pair). Most people peddle absolute sh*t at auctions. Even layer breeds aren't worth a d*mn in most cases. Well from what I've seen others buy anyway. I've never frequented such an establishment. Lol
nice looking chicks you have the parentsmy brunner roundheads. not sure if roos or hens. 17 days old. left one is looking like a spangled pattern
I don't know about most but I know a few are fire lol
want some eggs I'll send you some getting kinda warm but oh well
Where I am at, water sources are scarce... I have a slow leak on one of my sprinkler heads, and there are globs of bees all over that thing.Had not thought about watching it and not being to stop it...
On the bees here is what I know: 1) the pesticides, herbicides (round-up) and even other products used by big Ag kills bees, some GMO crops maybe doing bad things too. Most modern Ag Chemicals for pest control insect or plant where originally developed by companies who make chemical warfare weapons so WMDs have been repackaged as friendly smiley farm supplies during peace time by Ag Companies that are subsidiaries of the Weapons company that developed the toxin... so a lot of this stuff started out as weapons designed to cause mass death of humans or mass destruction of the environment (salt the earth warfare), this has been going on for generations now. 2) Mega-Farms are by their nature monocultures i.e. 1 plant that blooms at a specific time and must be pollenated at that time by the bees but once those 100-1000s of one crop/tree is done blooming it creates an unnatural food desert for the bees, as normally nature creates an environment that allows many different plants to bloom at different times meaning the bees would have food under natural conditions versus Industrialized Monoculture Systems 3) So to counter the monoculture bloom desert & the decreasing number of local hives bee hives are literally shipped across country on semi-trucks by Big Ag on tight schedules stressing the hives and exposing them to lots of different environmental conditions making it easier to spread disease & pests not only to these traveling domestic bees but then to local stationary hives and native populations. 4) Finally, domestic bees are often fed Corn Syrup to create honey which is obviously not normal and probably not healthy for the hives.
Note if the hives do not make it from one part of the country to the next part where the next crop is scheduled to bloom, or the crop blooms early (due to weather conditions) we will have crop failure for that crop because the majority of the pollinators are else where in America. This is a very stressed system right now. This is why farmers are being encouraged to create environments that are native bee friendly, however that means a major change in farming practices. A farmer who wants year round bees is often at odds with neighbors who crop spray and accidentally kill their hives native & domestic.
Many Big Chemical Ag Companies are nothing but the civilian friendly face of a Weapons Company, which either created the facade company or purchased a legitimate Ag company to peddle their poisons and then these companies began buying out other aspects of the Ag Industry creating the Big Monopoly Ag companies of today.
A bit disturbing, isn't it?
Anyhow that is what I learned a bit ago. I have been trying to encourage bees (native & domestic types) in my yard with plants that bees seem to like. I never spray anything so my yard is insect friendly, the down side is I do have to accept pest bugs may eat things but poison free is nice.
