South Carolina

[RedBugPoultry]

Guys, thank you for all your kind comments on the Christmas Chick delivery....Christmas is such a wonderful and magical time for children -- what better way to make it even more wonderful and magical than for them to wake up to a brooder full of little chicks! We enjoyed being part of that and I have really enjoyed meeting and helping Heather and her family get a start with their chicken adventure!

They are just starting to experience the concept of "Chicken Math"!

 

[RockerHen]

Awww...I just think he is adorable! I have been talking about getting a cow to raise for beef...and I want a Hog piglet too...just got to make homes for them first! What about a hanging hay net like horses use...only he could munch from the bottom? LOL

He eats fine from the hay ring, and I think that when the grass grows higher he won't have to kneel so much. We just replanted this field, he's eating the new sprouts coming up. He mostly waits to eat hay and feed, but I guess the little green shoots were too tempting today. He can reach his head to the ground to graze, as I've seen him do it, but I think it strains his neck and kneeling relieves the strain. Excuse the muddy spot, a building used to be there and we can't seem to get anything to grow there anymore. And yes, his facial marking is quite unique. I cam see a backwards 7 or an 'r' as well

 

[KPenley]

I am loving catching up on today's posts! What great stories and pictures!

We had a wonderful day too. Our three gorgeous Silkies from Nikki are growing so fast. The kids love to watch them run around the brooder. My DD thinks they're playing tag.
We went to meet Susanne of Huckleberry Farms today. I love her adorable row of playhouses made into coops! My DS thought the guineas were hilarious (he's never met one, and they hopped down from the top of the run and ran squawking at us with their headcap skin??? flared). My DDs fell in love with the really big beautiful pups and lavender Silkies! We picked up a new friend for Lucy and three new babies too.

Pics tomorrow as the babies are all bundled up under the Ecoglow at the moment.

Sweet dreams!

 

[Patsy29332]

I want to see pictures!!!!

OK...I can bore you all to death...LOL here is a frizzle hen and her Man... I am learning so I just call this my gold roo and his frizzle lady...let me know what you think...I also have the mirror image...The frizzle Roo over a smooth hen...More pictures to come of others later!


Ignore that BBR OEGB...he is not in there with them now...He needs a girlfriend or two though...LOL

 

[Patsy29332]

OK...I can bore you all to death...LOL here is a frizzle hen and her Man... I am learning so I just call this my gold roo and his frizzle lady...let me know what you think...I also have the mirror image...The frizzle Roo over a smooth hen...More pictures to come of others later!


Ignore that BBR OEGB...he is not in there with them now...He needs a girlfriend or two though...LOL

This man in front has a frizzle white and a smooth white hen...just starting to lay eggs...

 

[RedBugPoultry]

This man in front has a frizzle white and a smooth white hen...just starting to lay eggs...

These are very pretty little birds--I love the way they hold their wing! Are these young birds?

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Our little bull (for the moment. He might become a steer soon). He broke his neck while being born, and it miraculously healed, but at an up angle, because he had his head tilted up to nurse while it healed, so he has to get on his knees to graze grass that's very close to the ground. He's our 'discount baby' lol. He's destined to become our beef dinner, as he's not breeding quality, but he's soooo sweet. He can't turn his head very well to itch his back (cows itch with their tongues), so I've become his good friend by itching his back and brushing him with a curry comb. Our Angus cow loves the curry comb too, but our Angus/Hereford is still to shy to let us scratch anywhere but behind her ears. I need to friend her fast though, she's due to calve within the month!

By the way, chickens are not the only thing I think are pretty!! I do love the half heart!

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I love the heart and I am so sorry about his injury. We do feel bad for them but sometimes they don't realize they are not normal and are just as content.
Here is a horse we saw and I had to take pictures and luckily I had my camera.

 

[HBruemmer]

He eats fine from the hay ring, and I think that when the grass grows higher he won't have to kneel so much. We just replanted this field, he's eating the new sprouts coming up. He mostly waits to eat hay and feed, but I guess the little green shoots were too tempting today. He can reach his head to the ground to graze, as I've seen him do it, but I think it strains his neck and kneeling relieves the strain. Excuse the muddy spot, a building used to be there and we can't seem to get anything to grow there anymore. And yes, his facial marking is quite unique. I cam see a backwards 7 or an 'r' as well

Your bull is very sweet. Even if he is a little different it looks like he is enjoying the grass and having a happy life. I always feel like animals give us so much so it is nice to see people who give back to them (like scratching his back) in return.

 

[HBruemmer]

So here is a funny story about a purple chicken...
I have given my daughter too much free reign with our chickens. She enjoys them so much, whenever I can't find her I look in the coop. Last night she comes in, all upset - "Quick, where's the blue spray?" I had explained to her about using blu-kote on injuries so the other chickens wouldn't pick at a red wound. I pointed to the shelf where it was kept and asked her what she needed it for. "Buzz! Someone's pecked him, his neck has dried blood on it! I don't want him to get hurt any more!" She grabbed the spray and ran out while I hunted for some shoes. Buzz is a splash LF Cochin cockerel. We got him for free when we visited a petting zoo. They had a splash roo with copper on his head and neck who was a gorgeous and gentle giant, easily 13 lbs. who would eat out of your hand and when they offered Sophie a free choice of the cockerels, I let her bring one home, figuring we could hatch him some girlfriends. She picked the one that looked most like the dad, named him Buzz, and he is now her favorite. By the time I made it out the door, she had sprayed him already. I got a hold of him to look closer at his "wound" and there wasn't one! He's growing copper colored feathers on his neck that she mistook for dried blood. So, I think he would have looked very handsome in a few weeks, if all the spay Sophie put on him hadn't turned him purple! Anyone have a trick for getting the stuff off? It is now safely out of reach!