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[microchick]

I have an oversized t shirt of Ma's she slept in it I keep it smell her I lost her this last year but was not prepared still find myself crying about her... Do me favor post pictures of your bucket feeders please

I'm getting ready to go out now. I'll see if I can get some pictures.

 

[Beer can]

MSN has a news story about white and brown egg--Why brown eggs are more expensive:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddr...pensive-than-white-eggs/ar-AAtJrMB?li=BBnb7Kz

The article makes the claim that white eggs are lain by white chickens and brown eggs are laid by reddish brown chickens...Ignoring the facts of egg shell color!

At the top of Henderson's chicken chart we have breeds that are not white colored that lay white eggs:
Anconna
Andalusian
Appenzeller

Not to mention that there are brown and other color leghorns that lay white eggs.

I wonder if the author thinks that blue chickens lay blue eggs...

Pretty sure it was Bobby Flay on a cooking segment on morning news explained the same thing, I'd have thought he'd been smarter than that, or more informed anyway Lol!
My white giants and naked necks lay brown, only chickens I've ever had lay white was brown leghorns and and a golden laced polish. Still have the polish, was a great layer first yr, last couple .... very rare to see white eggs but she's I guess the kids favorite. I'd like to cull her but I guess she doesn't eat that much, might be my first bird to die of old age ...

 

[ronott1]

...and Icelandics...they can be any color and lay white eggs.

And a lot of different looking chickens!
Love the way they look

 

[CapricornFarm]

As soon as i drink some tea i am going back out to light the bonfire and get the Mule from the build site. Going to work on making my pallets like board on board fence. The hardest part is getting the boards off one pallet to put on the other.

 

[pennyJo1960]

making or heating dinner leftover beef stew added a few carrot, potato and meat then more brown gravy from browning the meat and fast bisquick biscuits

 

[chickadoodles]

I can't believe that someone could do an article without doing the actual research.
Like Al said!

 

[Beer can]

I can't believe that someone could do an article without doing the actual research.
Like Al said!

Especially when I believe? The majority of our population knows the whole brown cow chocolate milk joke/myth.

 

[NotAFarm]

Speaking of egg colors...egg collection tonight included the following (same eggs taken from different angles because of lighting): brown egg from German line New Hampshire hen, white egg from Icelandic hen, blue egg from a blue, muffed pullet hatched from a blue egg, olive egger from EHAL. Olive egger pullet is pictured at the bottom (pic from July)...her name is Zira, from the original Planet of the Apes movie.

 

[microchick]

Oh come on guys considering the general overall health and quality now-a-days of the news are you really surprised?

@penny1960, I was able to get two pictures for you.

The first is just made with the standard 90 degree bend pvc elbow set one inch above the bottom of the bucket. This feeder is outside as I have a big group of cockerels and pullets that spend most of the day out in the run. Every now and then a rooster will escort a pullet in to the nests but these birds just love to be outside no matter what the weather is.

I had a hutch that I took the front off of to accommodate the bucket being set inside and kept dry. There is a solid pallet sitting against the hutch for the smaller birds to stand on to reach the feed.

This one I made to day just out of whatever I can find. I only had a 45 degree elbow but after cutting the hole and setting it discovered that it would work just fine. We buy cat litter in buckets every now and then. Those things are worth their weight. I carry food to the coop with them, water, you name it. This one became an impromptu feeder today that I traded for the pvc pipe feeder which needs to be re-engineered to handle fine ground feed.

I am seeing a bit of spillage with this one that I don't see in the other picture. I may set a tray under it tomorrow to catch any spillage. I absolutely LOVE these feeders though.

Then just for fun and because they are so darned cute, these are my two princesses. I told my husband that they remind me of the tow little Oriental ladies in the old Godzilla/Mothra movies that would sing to Mothra in order to make the giant moth hatch. These two little girls are the two bantams I got from Orscheln's this spring to keep a lone chick company. The chick didn't make it but these two are hale and hearty. Their names are Faith and Hope. The lady on the left glaring at them is Little Dove who as you can tell, enjoying a hard molt and very grumpy at the moment. She is a beautiful little white OEGB hen but she is a chick killer so she is destined to never set eggs and see them hatch.

Faith is on the left and Hope on the right. Folks on the OEGB thread thought they are Silver Duckwing girls but their breasts are really getting red and their back feathers have almost a greenish cast to them so Idunno. Time will tell. I want to get a Silver Duckwing rooster this spring when I get my Fayoumis and see what they hatch for me.

You can see what I mean about the ceiling needing painted. The fly yuck is bad enough, but to make it worse, every time one of the roosters gets beat up they smear their bloody combs on the ceiling.

I just don't feel comfortable going into Home Depot and asking for paint that will cover blood stains.

 

[Alaskan]

Speaking of egg colors...egg collection tonight included the following (same eggs taken from different angles because of lighting): brown egg from German line New Hampshire hen, white egg from Icelandic hen, blue egg from a blue, muffed pullet hatched from a blue egg, olive egger from EHAL. Olive egger pullet is pictured at the bottom (pic from July)...her name is Zira, from the original Planet of the Apes movie.
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She IS Zira!!! Great name choice!