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He @Don 27 I so love your melanisic game fowl.... Pretty all round

When i move back up to the house I will be building a poultry house... it will be 24 x 24 feet... with Four partitions and one sick bay...

I am enamored with Sumatras which are half way between LF and Bantms They are survivors and great broodys too. I am hoping to condition them to roost in the coop at night. So I can use them to raise up Guinea Keets

They are some what melanistic... as well.

deb
 
drumstick diva said:
perchie, do you have any trouble with poisonous snakes where you live? Please don't bother to post photos of them. :oops:
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No issues I see plenty of them they go one way I go another... win win. I had a neighbor clearing some brush for me once. He told me he killed two rattlesnakes. They were as big around as a mans forearm and about five feet long.

I asked him what he did with them... He grinned and said "they are marinating in Teriyaki. Snake is good eating but full of bones so its best to be eaten with your fingers.

He and I are pretty much in agreement about the wild life. ONly time we kill something is if they are a threat. I suspect he cooked them up on his wood burning stove...

I am very careful about where I place my hands when working out in the yard. Especially if there is a plie of wood to be moved. They seek out shade and darkness in the heat of day.

But I make a lot of noise on purpose using my walking stick to bang on the ground or rap on the wood. They leave. The only threat I see is to my dogs. There is a rattle snake immunization but it has to be done every six months. Its better to take them to a rattle snake class to teach them to stay away.

Dogs usually get bit on the face so its important to make sure their air passages are working. Horses too they get bit on the nose and they are gonners... Cant breath out of their mouth... YOu have to cut lenghts of Garden hose and gently insert them into their nostrils so when their nose swells up they dont suffocate.

deb
 
Don 27 said:
Ya my layers are penned up most of the day . Here are some pictures.View attachment 1966077 Here they are eating some feed. View attachment 1966086 I let two out to forage . They are locked up every night. Make sure nothing eats them. View attachment 1966094 these are some of the game fowl hens. They are a vary small fast alert breed. These are also the ones that sleep in the fur trees. View attachment 1966095 this is the whole flock I didn't have time to get a good photo but they are eating scratch grains . I feed them during the winter and they forage during the summer. They aren't under weight for the breed and have good coloring. These guys can easily fly 200yards across the field . View attachment 1966098 Here is one of the fields I use. It's a little grown up right now. But comes spring it will all be mowed and tilled. View attachment 1966111 some land I have been clearing you can see what I would like to buy and clear behind.

The brush piles will be burned this spring as well.
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thats looks beautiful to me and so does letting the chickens free range, if i had what you have, i might let them try, the coons give me the most problems, i have one old hen thats been thru three coon attacks, (could never keep her penned) one pretty bad but she made it, thats when she was sleeping in the trees, she made it, the coons didn't:D
 
Don 27 said:
Ya I agree if the odds aren't in favor then there's nothing you can do. I keep my layers penned up to.
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light brahma's ?
i raised the different brahma's for awhile, loved them but when we retired, we started being snow birds and i sold everything but a few bantam cochins, now i also have a few chocolate orpingtons
 

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