The Old Folks Home

[wolftracks]

I am to today to sit on my patio

look at my and have a

OMG! I don't have time to pack! I wanna sit on that patio!

 

[tick22]

When I was in the P.I. they only had regular San Migel beer. it took awhile for me to get use to American beers after that.

What are you feeding the chickens. looks like a gang action mugging for sure.....

 

[ozexpat]

When I was in the P.I. they only had regular San Migel beer. it took awhile for me to get use to American beers after that.

What are you feeding the chickens. looks like a gang action mugging for sure.....

chicken food lol - Grower mash actually. But they are hungry Merkan chickens with supersize appetites

BTW San Mig has come a long way.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I am to today to sit on my patio

look at my and have a

Take me with you!




(Unless it's a Cessna)

 

[Cynthia12]

Mahroni had it done and the Rooster died. I think the mortality is higher than 15l% and it is expensive.

Please let us know if you decide to try this.

Plus, it doesn't work all the time. A friend out this way has a vet that is willing to try on roosters that no one wants. She has had two done. Neither worked. They thought the first one had, no crowing after the surgery, and while at the vet's office. She takes the roo home, and it starts crowing all the way home.

 

[insanity]

I wasn't thinking of having it done but I might buy one if he did do it.

 

[Cynthia12]

Beautiful. This is the way I like to see mountains. At a distance. LOL

Really? I love going into the mountains! Just love it, with my DH, and of course, a dog, or two.

Headed up the trail...easy at this point. DH and Toby..the dog I lost last year. There is
little Brody, a Pie Bald in color..Dacshund.




Can't wait for the green to come along. You hike up this trail to some water. Get past
the stream, then you get into the real hike. Have to be in pretty good shape to make
it. Folks have gone up there to a pond on top of the mountain. I hear it is dried up now.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: That is a great place to go! I like the dog in the water too.

 

[Wisher1000]

I've been around, you know? I got my first chickens as a child and have raised hundreds through the years. I have been a serious chicken geek for the past five years. You would think I could tell a rooster from a hen, right? I have four RIR (production reds) hens - or so I thought. I have never nest trapped them to see that they all lay but assumed they all were. Today, one to them CROWED! It was a very clear and manly crow, too. She/he did it three or four times and the old rooster was in the coop with him/her acting very confused. Are RIR/Production Red roosters hen-feathered? This bird doesn't have saddle feathers or sicles in the tail. I thought I saw some pointed hackle feathers but it was not obvious. Three of the birds came to me as pullets and were hatched on 4-14-12, a fourth was 7 months older. I can't tell any of them apart. I have never seen this bird mounting a hen, I have never heard it crow before. I'm so confused.....

 

[ronott1]

I've been around, you know? I got my first chickens as a child and have raised hundreds through the years. I have been a serious chicken geek for the past five years. You would think I could tell a rooster from a hen, right? I have four RIR (production reds) hens - or so I thought. I have never nest trapped them to see that they all lay but assumed they all were. Today, one to them CROWED! It was a very clear and manly crow, too. She/he did it three or four times and the old rooster was in the coop with him/her acting very confused. Are RIR/Production Red roosters hen-feathered? This bird doesn't have saddle feathers or sicles in the tail. I thought I saw some pointed hackle feathers but it was not obvious. Three of the birds came to me as pullets and were hatched on 4-14-12, a fourth was 7 months older. I can't tell any of them apart. I have never seen this bird mounting a hen, I have never heard it crow before. I'm so confused.....

No, production red Roosters look like old time reds but narrower and lighter colored.

She may have lost an ovary. That makes them have an hormone imbalance and they will crow. Oddly, they will still lay eggs.

I grew up with chickens too. I have only been a chicken geek for 3+ years now. I have never seen this happen either but as a chicken geek I have read about it...

Post a picture of your crowing egg laying hen.