The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[lalaland]

Thank you So far Friday AND Saturday are perfect temps and sunny!

It's been 8 years now since same sex marriage has been legal in Canada nationwide. I feel very lucky that we have that option.

Our dresses are not conventional at all. Everything about our party afterwards is country. Mason jars.. wild flowers.. We're doing caramel corn for wedding favours and I designed our own wine labels and invitations (with some inspiration). I've linked our pinterest album where we got a lot of our ideas. Our house is too small for the party, so my parents are hosting it at their cottage. Plus that allows for us not to have to clean our place before and after as well We're doing gourmet sandwiches, cheeses, carrot cake, lemonade, and veggies.



The wine label.

Sorry this is so off topic. Maybe I should bring a chicken lol

looks adorable. not sure if chickens are the ideal wedding accessory!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I'm loving all the love here. Congratulations everyone! Best Wishes!

 

[delisha]

Justine, Congrats to you and Susan..may all good things come your way and the sun shine on your lives in all things.


Song of the Open Road
By Walt Whitman


Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds

By William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

 

[lalaland]

Delisha, that was so sweet!

 

[Alibabe]

I have 4 10 week old cockerals - 2 cream legbars and 2 RIR's. One of the legbars is crowing and is grabbing the girls by their neck feathers. It reminds me of young boys pulling the pigtails of the girls that they like. When do the cockerals stop acting like adolescent boys and reach the stage of 'knowing' what to do?

My other 3 10 week old cockerals are not crowing yet or showing signs of being interested in girls.

 

[aoxa]

I have 4 10 week old cockerals - 2 cream legbars and 2 RIR's. One of the legbars is crowing and is grabbing the girls by their neck feathers. It reminds me of young boys pulling the pigtails of the girls that they like. When do the cockerals stop acting like adolescent boys and reach the stage of 'knowing' what to do?

My other 3 10 week old cockerals are not crowing yet or showing signs of being interested in girls.

In my experience, they start to settle down after 8 months if they started early. If they start later, the period of time they are like that is usually later as well.

Sometimes you get lucky and have boys that never have a randy stage. But most of mine do.

 

[delisha]

Quote: OK..

Well if you are not worried..I am confused about what you are asking. I am a bit thick headed I guess.

That bird in the video was an older healthy bird. The fat was normal for its age.

If the heart had a clot that is not normal. The bird clots and has blood pool where it is killed. If you cut its jugular in the neck the clot is there, if you chop off the head the clot is right at the ax mark. If a bird died of a heath attack it clots there. Internal fluids in not normal. Pale liver is not normal. There should be no gelatinous liquid at all. You stated the bird was injured. All of that could be explained with internal injury, however i am guessing since I have no pictures. The bird might have been injured because it was ill and would not come out of the coop. I am again just guessing from information given and this is my opinion.

 

[delisha]

Delisha, that was so sweet!

Thank you..


I thought gay poets talking of love was appropriate..and I love both poets..

 

[TipihlowLadies]

How are eggs sized

 

[lalaland]

I just picked white sage ( a kind of wormwood) to dry for the chicken nests, and also picked tansy, mint, and lemon balm to dry too for use this winter in the nests. Put some fresh tansy under the hay in the nests, and sprinkled rose petals on top. Hens aren't very fond of the rose petals, but I like it.