Stella's Social Club

[mlm Mike]

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[debs_flock]

How does a hen hide outside or in a dust bath for three weeks?????

But I believe in official chicken math, a chick doesn't count if it incubated and hatched in secret!

In my case it's a pen where the birds put themselves away, small solid black bantam birds. Every time you walk by, you see a bird in the dust bath hole and just don't think about it being the same bird every time

Surprise

instant mommy

No stopping a determined hen!

Gorgeous beets..........................I'll take mine pickled!

 

[crazyhen]

I made salt crusted beets yesterday. That will be my dinner tonight! Wonder what Michael is going to eat?

I know it won't be beets!

 

[drumstick diva]

What IS Michael going to eat??

I worry so.... I would share my ice cream with him if I had any.

 

[Cynthia12]

X's 2 on how you make salt crusted beets. I am one to love the pickled, but also love salt.

 

[Eva2012]

I have old lady eyes so once the snake lost the big spot I was good! If I ever found one of those in the coop I would move to high rise apartment! Along the same line as the snake but to a lesser level, I opened the door to the brooder house this morning and a lizard ran across my foot! I panicked and jumped backwards falling off the top step and scraping the front of my leg. It is bruised and swollen. Jeeze. I hate slithering things.

Oh Mary, some people past good money to own either of these

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I friend of mine here on BYC has been working with a strain of Naked Necks that carry a recessive featherless gene in the hopes to get a featherless chicken. She got one! His name is Rudy, he's about 2 months old now. Isn't this bizarre???




She said, "It is a completely natural genetic mutation first found in a flock of New Hampshire chickens in a flock in CA, back in the 1950's. It is recessive and takes two recessives to pass this form. A bird can carry w/o showing, if it only gets one gene. This genetic make up has very real benefits, and some limitations. Raising chickens for meat in tropical countries can be difficult b/c of the heat, these are being looked at for ability to raise them for inexpensive meat (by crossing w/ the faster growing meat birds) in more tropical, poor areas. Rudy is a very active, energetic well rounded chicken, living in w/ a flock of feathered but naked necked chickens. He preens, runs, flaps, sunbathes, chases bugs, digs in the ground, same as any other chicken. He did have a rocky start, having nothing to do w/ his genetics, but w/ incubator problems, but is very healthy now."

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yummy, beets! Speaking of which, I have some in my fridge that I need to cook.


Rudy, wow, that is really odd! I wonder if the poor thing would get sunburned, or too cold in winter climates?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Yummy, beets! Speaking of which, I have some in my fridge that I need to cook.


Rudy, wow, that is really odd! I wonder if the poor thing would get sunburned, or too cold in winter climates?

She says he's tolerated the sun pretty well so far this summer, we've been up in the upper 90s for about 2 weeks so far. She's waiting to see how he does in the winter. He may need special housing accommodations, we aren't super cold here, but it tends to hover in the upper thirties and forties for the highs and lows in the teens and twenties most of the winter. Naked necks are very hardy to our climate even in the heat and cold; the rest of her flock are almost exclusively naked necks. She wants to see how he does this winter before she decides to work further on developing more like him. It's kind of a lucky thing he's a rooster- she can spread this recessive gene much faster with a roo than a hen if she chooses to move forward.

ETA: she lives in Oklahoma, too, hence my references to "my" climate.

 

[mlm Mike]

I friend of mine here on BYC has been working with a strain of Naked Necks that carry a recessive featherless gene in the hopes to get a featherless chicken. She got one! His name is Rudy, he's about 2 months old now. Isn't this bizarre???




She said, "It is a completely natural genetic mutation first found in a flock of New Hampshire chickens in a flock in CA, back in the 1950's. It is recessive and takes two recessives to pass this form. A bird can carry w/o showing, if it only gets one gene. This genetic make up has very real benefits, and some limitations. Raising chickens for meat in tropical countries can be difficult b/c of the heat, these are being looked at for ability to raise them for inexpensive meat (by crossing w/ the faster growing meat birds) in more tropical, poor areas. Rudy is a very active, energetic well rounded chicken, living in w/ a flock of feathered but naked necked chickens. He preens, runs, flaps, sunbathes, chases bugs, digs in the ground, same as any other chicken. He did have a rocky start, having nothing to do w/ his genetics, but w/ incubator problems, but is very healthy now."

Sure would speed up processing.