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[TexasLisa]

Hey guys is it possible to have a male that's just to big to mate?
Originally Posted by TammyTX


......you talking chickens....or...what....?????

 

[galanie]

Hey guys is it possible to have a male that's just to big to mate?

Well... yes and no. They'll try it regardless but if he's too big he can hurt the hen cause you know, they stand on top of the poor things. Course too it depends on breed. I had a huge black orp rooster that would absolutely smother my little Dark Cornish hen.. but then she was a dark cornish and made of nothing but muscle. Didn't hurt her a bit. In fact she LOVED him

 

[galanie]

I remember the big scare over Africanized bees years and years ago. It was all like "They're in Mexico now!" ..."They've been spotted at the border!" "OH NO WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"

And then... nothing. Fact seems to be that they do cross with European bees but the result is hardly the apocalypse that was envisioned. They're simply a bit more aggressive is all. The advice for the full suit is a good one, and being new at this, was going to get one anyway. Cause you know, at first I won't really know what I'm doing.

 

[mandaleigh1981]

Welcome back! YOU WERE MISSED!!

Congrats on selling your birds!

Do you realize you are 3 hours away from me????? I wish I could be there to help you after the surgery. You will be in my prayers.

Lisa

I know, not so far when you think about it! Thanks for missing me! I missed all you guys too. I am kinda antisocial and just stay home with chickens and children and DH, so you guys are my new friends. Because no one around me loves chickens like I do!

 

[mandaleigh1981]

I remember the big scare over Africanized bees years and years ago. It was all like "They're in Mexico now!" ..."They've been spotted at the border!" "OH NO WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"

And then... nothing. Fact seems to be that they do cross with European bees but the result is hardly the apocalypse that was envisioned. They're simply a bit more aggressive is all. The advice for the full suit is a good one, and being new at this, was going to get one anyway. Cause you know, at first I won't really know what I'm doing.

I have thought about doing bees too. My grandfather kept many bees, and my mom remembers how special it was that they had sweet honey during WWII when sugar was hard to get.

 

[mandaleigh1981]

Well... yes and no. They'll try it regardless but if he's too big he can hurt the hen cause you know, they stand on top of the poor things. Course too it depends on breed. I had a huge black orp rooster that would absolutely smother my little Dark Cornish hen.. but then she was a dark cornish and made of nothing but muscle. Didn't hurt her a bit. In fact she LOVED him

I keep thinking of DH and I. He is 6'2 and 250lbs and I am 5'2 and 130lbs. And I know sometimes people look at us funny......probably wondering the same thing!

 

[galanie]

Dug this pond a month or so back and finally got the liner 3 weeks ago and filled it. The liner is a 10' x 15' sheet of stuff that looks like truck inner tube material.

Anyway, yesterday I was out looking at it and found footprints.. definitely deer and a lot of ... huge.. pawprints. Sandy and dry so not distinct but I'm thinking oh great, coyotes. It's not all that far from the house so whatever is drinking is visiting either at night or early early in the morning when the sun is not really up well yet. Kinda cool that the deer and the birds are visiting but the pawprints, not so much.

really it looks better than that now but haven't taken a shot lately.

 

[galanie]

 I keep thinking of DH and I.  He is 6'2 and 250lbs and I am 5'2 and 130lbs.  And I know sometimes people look at us funny......probably wondering the same thing!

HAHAHA Yep, probably. I knew a couple years and years ago that was even worse. He had to have been 7' and she was.. well I'm 5'4" and her head probably came up to my shoulder.. maybe. I swear when they danced all she saw was his belt buckle.

 

[mandaleigh1981]

Dug this pond a month or so back and finally got the liner 3 weeks ago and filled it. The liner is a 10' x 15' sheet of stuff that looks like truck inner tube material.

Anyway, yesterday I was out looking at it and found footprints.. definitely deer and a lot of ... huge.. pawprints. Sandy and dry so not distinct but I'm thinking oh great, coyotes. It's not all that far from the house so whatever is drinking is visiting either at night or early early in the morning when the sun is not really up well yet. Kinda cool that the deer and the birds are visiting but the pawprints, not so much.



really it looks better than that now but haven't taken a shot lately.

Wow! Well, if it were me I would be sitting out hunting for coyotes.....or it could be a bobcat or depending on the area, a mountain lion. I would hunt them just because they will kill the deer, though honestly they are much less destructive than all the wild hogs we have running around down here.

 

[mandaleigh1981]

This is the guy we kept. And now that the others are gone, I noticed he is doing some funky thing with his wing and kinda side stepping before he mounts a hen. I also noticed he has wonderful "table" manners. He always keeps watch now while the hens eat and then eats when they are all finished. I am glad my Foghorn turned out to be the good, well mannered bird we kept to be flock master!