The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[CoopChick719]

I know Leah's Mom!!! That's what I thought when I saw yours!! I got some eggs from a friend. She was told her roo is a barred rock cross. Her hens are EE's, White Leghorns and BR's.

Yes, I do need to know my punctuation!! Quick story...my grandmother had a friend named Mrs. Fuchs. My aunt, who was very young at the time, said to the lady one day, "Ya know what? You have to spell your name verrrryyy carefully!"

 

[Leahs Mom]

Still

On the moving /circulating water - it seems that it would still have to be heated to some degree. I'm thinking of Lake Michigan with the waves coming in all winter long...never stops moving... but those waves end up freezing solidly enough that you can walk way out on them water...

 

[Leahs Mom]

So if you have a roo, and I have a pullet we could start a new breed...give it a creative name and market it to the pet chicken market....

 

[CoopChick719]

We'll be rich and quit our day jobs!!

Pretty sure mines pullet too. Her comb is so tiny.

 

[CoopChick719]

I've been looking a pictures of Dominiques. I thought I had read that they are crossed w/something to get Barred Rocks?

 

[Child of Noah]

This photo was obviously taken at the back of your house where the dryer exhaust is located. What you have here is a giant lint ball that came out after a Whites load. If you are extremely thrifty and crafty you can probably make something really cute out of it. Giving it eyelashes and/or a pink bow will make it a girl.

 

[Leahs Mom]

VIABILITY OF SHIPPED HATCHING EGGS...

Question of the day....

Was discussing the poor hatch-rate on shipped over on the SFH thread. Seems that eggs from SOME breeders do better than others and there is not significantly different packaging from one to another. Sometimes even shipped from the same post offices and same routes.....

Anyhow - I had this though and I want to throw it out for discussion:


Could viability possibly be at least partially a nutrition/health of flock issue rather than just shipping variabilities? As in, could the eggs be stronger, heavier, thicker albumen, better anchored, etc., depending variants in nutrition and thus result in a better hatch-rate despite jostling enroute?

YOUR INPUT/THOUGHTS, PLEASE!




(Just another one of those things I'm thinking about

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[Leahs Mom]

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[SallyinIndiana]

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Ron Fogle and his friend Paulletta from AR. Paulletta drove them to me too. Super nice and friendly. And the chicks were treated way better than the USPS would have for the trip. They had food, water and space to move around. Also the weather was perfect, not to cold and not overly hot. My children already love them.
Drove them!!! Was she on her way to somewhere else and dropped them? That's some DANG GOOD SERVICE!

She was on her way north of me. I don't think she was going as far north as you are located but still a lot closer than AR. She did say that they make the trip multiple times a year. In case you are thinking of getting some, they are both on the RIR Heritage Thread. There are other lines on there that are great lines too, not sure any of them are that close to Indiana though.

The more I hear about the Buff Orps, the more I think I resemble one

hilarious

 

[stonykill]

do you have a photo of burdock to share? thanks

1st year will look like this. 2nd year is when it gets the "burdocks". It is a biennial.

Stony - do you dry the leaves to make the tea or just use them fresh?

fresh. pick, rinse and make tea