Thank you !
I forgot to include Thumper or beloved 3 year old Rabbit.
I forgot to include Thumper or beloved 3 year old Rabbit.
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Thank you.Hello Alma,
Thanks for posting pictures.
Cute set up. Cute chickens and ducks.
Do you get all of your birds in that coop?
Once they hatch, they live.
Good show silkies are hard to hatch. Probably due to the very large vaulted skulls. My silkies lay really well, and are very thrifty - but to hatch a SQ silkie is not as easy as a non-SQ silkie.
The silkies you keep where you are in Australia are a totally different bird.
Also, yes I meant DP as in eggs and meat. I can not stomach a DP bird that is not slow cooked. It tastes like tough leather.
To each their own. Almost everyone I read from in the meat bird section describes how much better conversion ratio meat bids are.
I will take a lookSorry if this post isn't really on Natural keeping.
EVERYONE, in my signature is a link for a STAY OF DESTRUCTION OF RARE BREED POULTRY, please can you help me out by signing a petition.
The link will give you all the info you need to know!
Thanks!
I don't find they look anywhere close to the same.Yes, I made that geographic/genetic allowance in my post, however they do look identical.
The american ones sound surprisingly degraded. Generally I assume the Aussie ones are less high quality due to isolation, small population and inbreeding, but if anything our Aussie silkies seem better than American ones. Not much luck with the other breeds though. I'm sure in other places in Oz there are great breeders with great lines. I guess American silkies might be a casualty/example of the impact a few breeders can have on a breed in general.
When you do that without quoting the original post, it is hard to see who you are replying to without deleting each part and continuously copying and pasting.Instead of clicking 'quote' and repeating my whole post to address a few points, you could have cut and pasted them into the quick reply editor.![]()
I've tried Cochin, Barred Rock, Naked Neck, Cochin x Barred Rock and some barnyard mixes I have no idea what they were. All were tough. The legs were inedible pretty much. The breast was okay (what there was on there).What breed do you have? A true DP is never as tough as leather, but some people keep a bad strain that's been let to lose its DP qualities, and keep selling it as being 'DP' when in all truth it is no longer actually DP any more than any bird of any breed is.
I really like this one Trav!