These are beautifully colored! Nice!
I was always told that ravens were much larger than crows. I've had crows pick my garden clean of seeds before. They have a sentry that watches while the others do the dirty work. I'm not that good of a shot to pick him off the telephone pole. Electric co fines the crap out of you for destroying their property. lol
But if they aren't right by one another, wouldn't it be hard to tell via size? I just watched a video on the difference. I can see it better now. Ravens have totally different behaviours. They have different caws too.
I don't think -we have ravens here in central down state. When I was a little girl, my neighbors had a crow they trained and it could say "Jim Crow" over and over. I think if you were around one a life time then you would notice the other(I mean me). Crows do have a distinct caw caw. They were a nuisance when I was younger, then they became protected, now you can shoot them again. I think if I saw a raven I would know.
Let us know when it the e-book is out! Can't wait to read it. I like the cover!!
Should be out very soon. I'll let you guys know
I coarse grind pumpkin seed and add it to my FF buckets for the adult flock and also into the FF of chick starter. I dump a lot in those buckets. They get pumpkin with every beakful they take that way. Especially the chicks. I ferment fresh garlic cloves in my FF and I dust it extra for the chicks. If I can't smell garlic when I walk into my barn, I feel I'm not giving them enough.Ravens are larger, beaks are more massive in porportion to their body, and yes, they have different calls. Crow calls are more "caw", ravens are more croaking. But hard to tell diff when they are flying overhead!
What ebook? would be good to read.
Hope you and Susan are hanging in there - grief can be a long haul. I am always caught off guard by how physical it can be - how your body feels it.
I am worming my whole flock with a little kerosene in the water tomorrow, when I will be home in daylight to be there. Am going to remove the water w kerosene after a few hours, and will monitor poops (always a fun activity). Questions I have are whether the worms expelled will be dead? or if alive in the poop, will chickens just eat them and start all over? I am guessing I will need to repeat treatment in a couple of weeks.
And yes, chickens have had pumpkin seeds (but not ground up, I have read you need to grind them up, but I think thats what gizzards are for
) and garlic, and ACV and some FF . ACV and garlic has been in place their whole life, or for the group of rescue hens, for the year that I have had them. Pumpkins seeds, ditto from pumpkins I grow, so only during fall or winter months. Also squash seeds, but have read that squash seeds don't have the same critical ingredient that pumpkin seeds have.
worming because I have a sickly hen with classic worm overload symptoms, a couple others that are too light weight, and of course, that tell-tale wormy poop from a couple of weeks ago.
Will report back on results.
Here is the book cover. It's going to be on amazon as an e-book.
It's been dedicated to our farm. So wonderful...
Anyway... Yeah we are managing. I know exactly what you mean by physical grief. How it can make you nauseous and sometimes you just feel like you are in a dream.
