I've been trying to catch them mid flight many times now - but I don't like cropping my pictures since you lose resolution, and they move really fast. I'm still not happy with the pics, but they're decent. I'd like to get the chicken fully in view, from the front, with nothing in the way of the view.
Quote: That sounds amazing. It's interesting how much the typical breakfast varies from country to country. The French and other Middle-Europeans have their pastries, Brits have the English breakfast, and in Finland breakfast is usually sandwiches, with some ham, cheese and veggies on top. Rye bread is pretty common (the real kind made with mainly rye), and sometimes perhaps a boiled egg. Kids eat cereal, and muesli is pretty popular too. And porridge, usually made with oatmeal.
That is different what is porridge? I have heard of it and never knew what it was. My DH is a true southern gentleman and he likes a big southern breakfast on the weekends biscuits and sausage or bacon, eggs, grits or hash brown's or fried potatoes with onions and bell peppers. I have introduced him to some Calif. style cooking and some he likes and some he don't. I do not like a big greasy breakfast so I fix what he want's and then later I eat some toast and fruit or cereal.
Maybe you just call it oatmeal? Basically, oatmeal cooked in water or milk, with some salt added. You can use different grains too, and eat it with jam, jelly, fruits, berries, butter, honey, milk, cream, raisin, apples or whatever else you can think of.
Ours eat the poo too. And the chicken food. That one is more obedient when it comes to the food though. I had to pull the other one out of there earlier.Your birds are beautiful and what great pics you take! And your dog is very pretty.
My puppy runs around eating chicken food and chicken and cow poo! I have no idea why, it drives me crazy, I tell her to quit and she just keeps on!
You rent a house and take in roommates that are "chicken compatible" i.e. will enjoy the eggs, company and occasional chores to keep them. That way you have some freedom and the additional $$ to have a house with a yard. This works until you have a job that gives you the financial freedom to live alone or take a wife. Works for my son, anyway. Good luck! beverlywell, I'm not exactly a kid.. I'm 26(maybe a kid in the eyes of our older folk). Probably a hair less than the median age of this community. I live in my parent's home but they are both retired and travel or stay at one of their vacation homes.. so I don't see my parents much more than four or five days a month. But it is a real problem, I am one college term away from my degree and am thinking about where I will live as my own place.. I'm sure it will happen within the year. I just have a sad feeling that I won't be able to live in a location where I could afford to pay the mortgage and property taxes to support my poultry hobby. My parents are gone so much traveling they also couldn't support my birds. It's just a problem I have no answer to yet.. and am fearing the worst.
Store bought feed has coccidiostats (sp?) in it to prevent the disease in baby chicks. I lost 2 before I got it under control with Sulmet drops in their water. I had dark shavings in the Rubbermaid tubs I had them in, in a darkish room. I obviously hadn't changed them often enough and couldn't see the blood in the stool in the shavings. The thing with the disease is that even if they survive some will then present with "failure to thrive" syndrome. I had a Speckled Sussex that fell into that category. She didn't eat as much as her sibs., got pushed aside, slept most of the time and weighed so much less than the others. I finally got tired of waiting for her to die and put her down. Anyway, I'm never doing chicks in the winter again. It is so hot here that in June thru September babies can be outside without heating lamps required. Maybe, just at nite. Good luck! : )
I've never seen a goat with polka dots! How cute! : )I now have kids!
They screamed the ENTIRE way home. But thankfully they were continent.
They got into their new home, immediately evacuated bowels and bladder and then started munching on their hay and some maple trees. They are the epitome of cute. The girl is a fatty.
