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[Highcotton]

There are so many beautiful varieties of those big lawn ornaments.
As someone else said. They taste like chicken eggs to me. You can eat any kind of egg. It's nature's perfect animal protein fruit. IMO, the reason you don't hear of people eating turkey eggs so much is that they don't produce like a leghorn and the eggs are too valuable for hatching than to sell them for eating. I haven't had domestic turkeys (relatively calm wild ones visit often) but a friend of mine (wait for it!) has a couple house turkeys. I think I even have a picture somewhere of a mutual acquaintance in South Africa and her house turkey in the entryway of her elegant home. Keep in mind, I'm not a fan of poultry as house pets but those people don't have toms so they have them as ornaments and therapy animals. My friend doesn't eat eggs either and occasionally I get some eating eggs gifted. Hers are a royal palm and a blue slate.

If you have a pair, your hen will most likely go broody, sit on and hatch eggs after she collects a clutch.
I saw Richard Sherman's on field interview, the ESPN post game interview where he compared what he did and what goes on at a hockey game and I saw the Chris Hayes interview. I came away with the same impression as you.

I guess I'm fortunate I never encountered the Heritage Large Fowl thread.

I do have a houndstooth white egg layer - a Jaerhon.

Thanks so much for the offer. I'll surely return the favor.

A large river to me is the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee. I don't mind dragging my canoe or portaging. That just means I'll be the only one out there, and no motorboats zipping by. My favorites are cold, clear streams that you can see the bottom (and all the smallmouth and trout). I've been on 80 % of the floatable streams in the Ozarks. Among my favorites in MO are the Jacks Fork, Eleven Point, North Fork, St. Francis, Current. In Arkansas, the Buffalo and White.

None of the following videos are of me as I haven't uploaded any of mine but a picture is worth a thousand words.
The first one is the St. Francis. I could actually float, starting on the Ouachita creek that flowed through our farm to this part of the St. Francis just a few miles downstream. Getting to the St. Francis on the Ouachita was much worse than the river itself.
I've floated it several times and once I went 55 miles all the way to Lake Wappapello.

One winter I floated 95 miles on the Current from Tan Vat hole at Montauk spring trout park to Big Spring. I was the only one on the river the whole way.

Buffalo. One summer vacation, my wife and kids floated from Ponca and then about 8 miles on the White after the Buffalo enters. Original plan was to do all Buffalo sections but water was too low.
Long video but worth it and you'll see why I like it. The river is very pristine with such variety of animals everywhere you look. It talks about how fickle river level can be. I've been there 6 times expecting to float and could only do so 3 times. Once it was too low and twice it was too high.

In the south I've been on the Chatooga near where NC, SC and GA meet. My wife rafted the New River in WV.

My family and I also rafted the Pacuare. Most consider it among the top 10 white water destinations in the world.
It was truly one of our best experiences ever.
http://livewellnetwork.com/Motion/episodes/Rafting-the-Pacuare-River-in-Costa-Rica/9020796


I'm not talking you down. I'm going to enable and I vote for Minorcas.

Winter isn't always good but you're right, much of it is idyllic. I love the eastern side in the rolling hills near the Mississippi river.

Thanks. I'm a bit addicted.
I had to laugh when Ron sent the PM about the best hatch-a-long participant. He had a Freudian slip. It said pest hatch a long. I thought, "well yes, I was a pest".

I enjoyed your post. I guess you know the Chatooga is where Deliverance was filmed. We have a nice river for canoeing and float fishing just west of me, the Flint. It flows from south of Atlanta and meets the Chattahoochee at the Florida and Alabama line where there they form the Appalachacola.

I enjoy this thread nd BYC because the people are friendly, and they know what they are doing. I think people are willing to participate because there is no conflict and there are no stupid questions. I look forward to reading the thread every day and I always get good advice.

Byron

 

[tnspursfan09]

Thats right 

I am afraid my little Dottie might be due for a name change. I'm not allowed to speculate out loud because DH thinks that I can somehow voodoo a hen into a rooster just by saying it. "Look what happened to Cricket," he says. Um - honey? Cricket was hatched a boy. I had nothing to do with that. If I had that kind of power I'd hatch all hens. Wouldn't that be nice?

Here's Dottie.

What kind of chicken is this?

 

[kingfrodo]

I am afraid my little Dottie might be due for a name change. I'm not allowed to speculate out loud because DH thinks that I can somehow voodoo a hen into a rooster just by saying it. "Look what happened to Cricket," he says. Um - honey? Cricket was hatched a boy. I had nothing to do with that. If I had that kind of power I'd hatch all hens. Wouldn't that be nice?

Here's Dottie.






What kind of chicken is this?

I think Dottie needs a name change as well.

as far as the other chicken....I'm not too sure of that rare breed.....

 

[ChickenCanoe]

DH's flight might be cancelled if this weather don't let up soon. Our drive to the airport may be cancelled first, though. These back roads aren't usually the first to get cleared when it snows.

I'm freaking out a little now.
My daughter checked her flights at midnight. She was supposed to leave at 10AM today. Flight was cancelled and she wasn't alerted. They rerouted her to DC for her flight to Tokyo. The new flight was at 8 AM and she would have missed it if she hadn't checked. Then the plane was late and is supposed to arrive in Dulles in 10 minutes. That will only give her 10 minutes to get to the Tokyo flight.
Fingers crossed here.

 

[Bunnylady]

I must confess, I've had my doubts about Dottie all along

But as for that other one, you definitely need to hang onto it to find out what it turns into!

 

[Highcotton]

The weather has stunk this winter in the mid-Atlantic but we get like this occasionally. I have lived here since birth. I remember a year when it seemed every Wednesday we could expect an ice storm like clockwork. The strain on the power grid was so bad the electric company was conducting rolling blackouts. We would be at work and all of the sudden your computer cut off and all of the lights in the building. It was not so bad if you were in a section with outside light but I worked in the belly of the beast and you had to feel the walls to get to the door to see light. These would last 30 - 60 minutes and the building would get so cold so fast. So far that has not happened this year despite the weather. My DH and I had always wanted to relocate south.....I am a fair weather gal. Though I knew it would get cold in SC, 2014 has started off rather shocking.

Last year about this time I was retired for 3 months and it was the most beautiful weather of the year. Don't worry this winter is not typical anywhere. I have lived in this region practically all of my life and I have never seen a winter like this.

 

[tnspursfan09]

I'm freaking out a little now.
My daughter checked her flights at midnight. She was supposed to leave at 10AM today. Flight was cancelled and she wasn't alerted. They rerouted her to DC for her flight to Tokyo. The new flight was at 8 AM and she would have missed it if she hadn't checked. Then the plane was late and is supposed to arrive in Dulles in 10 minutes. That will only give her 10 minutes to get to the Tokyo flight.
Fingers crossed here.

 

[tnspursfan09]

I must confess, I've had my doubts about Dottie all along

But as for that other one, you definitely need to hang onto it to find out what it turns into!

I have had the same thoughts about Dottie. I guess DH wil finally believe it when "she" crows. Until then I'm gonna keep my mouth shut lest I "jinx" her.


That other chicken is my favorite "house chicken."

 

[chickadoodles]

I am afraid my little Dottie might be due for a name change. I'm not allowed to speculate out loud because DH thinks that I can somehow voodoo a hen into a rooster just by saying it. "Look what happened to Cricket," he says. Um - honey? Cricket was hatched a boy. I had nothing to do with that. If I had that kind of power I'd hatch all hens. Wouldn't that be nice?

Here's Dottie.






What kind of chicken is this?

I agree I think Dottie needs a new name...

I would also like to see what your mystery chickens turns into. lol

 

[Wisher1000]

Dottie could be called Dabney.