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[roosterhavoc]

Although centra may be interested in a few birds. By my last count he only has 2 chickens and 2 ducks lol

 

[centrarchid]

I couldn't do that with a silkie hen I used over the past summer. she would jimmy fly snooka me just trying to feed them lol

Silkies are not even chickens. My guess is they are what fell out of some aliens underpants and the folks in China thought is was cute enough to keep as a pet. They are also evil.

 

[centrarchid]

Although centra may be interested in a few birds. By my last count he only has 2 chickens and 2 ducks lol

I lost one of the ducks. Remaining duck is a pain in the butt as constantly loosing feathers making me think a predator got it.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Silkies are not even chickens. My guess is they are what fell out of some aliens underpants and the folks in China thought is was cute enough to keep as a pet. They are also evil.

haha I got to find a pic of her. To be honest I don't even remember where she came from. Doesn't even look like a chicken, looks like a miniature ape.

 

[sdm111]

Come on everybody loves a living shag rug

 

[roosterhavoc]

Lol over 1300 pics on my phone and not one of her. Probably cause she was always sitting on eggs. She was always broody and the other hens pecked her bald ( ape look). She's actually one of the older chickens I have.

 

[centrarchid]

Here is something I was into upon moving into current home. In addition to flight capacity, I was interested in what sorts of returns (quantity and quality of eats) were required for a chicken to invest a given level of flight performance. Some foods such as green plant matter and even some feeds did not provide much in the way of motivation. As soon as insects are part of the equation, investment in flight skyrocketed. Here is an example of what chicks would do for mealworms. They do so even with a fare amount of crop fill from other food items such as feed.

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[sdm111]

Neat to see how much they can fly when enticed

 

[centrarchid]

Neat to see how much they can fly when enticed

The following winter for birds based around house, I stop mixing feedstuffs. Then I put out about half dozen straw bales and put a feed stuff on on each one. In order to get the balanced mixture they would have to visit each bale. They demonstrated a preference once they new what bale had which feed stuff and that preference appeared to change with temperature. When the heavy snows (>12 inches) hit they would fly between bales. It took a couple days before they would visit more than the bales with preferred eats. I wanted to spread the bales out more than 50 feet but snow left. That will be repeated.

Free-range birds we used to have on some of our walks flew a lot as well when it snowed. They would not come out to eat for a couple of days, then they started flying from building to building avoiding contact with snow. They were also good at finding wind scoured locations where they could actually reach ground.

 

[hildar]

I wish it would stop raining here for awhile. The pens are so full of mud lately, so then we move the pens, and a few days later have to move them again. And my drive way has got a good 6 inches of water in it. It's like every time I have to leave I have to wade through a stream just to open the gate up. Later this coming week the cold will be coming back again, today though it's in the low 70's.