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[KPenley]

How do we ask a question for the blog? I would love to know all about combs. Colors, texture, frostbite, changes and what they might mean, what to do about it, etc.

 

[aoxa]

I'm totally cracking up over this. Honestly, though - I think Silkies are, in fact, aliens. I'm fine with that.

Guineas... Guineas are just zombie chickens!


Brr ...brr... brr... brr... brr... brr... brr... Brains!

You shoulda kept them. They would have protected you from real zombies.

Zombies would be scared of them. I mean look at that face!

I have seen a pretty Guinea before though. Those Vulturine Guineas are beautiful, but still have a tinge of the strange face. Not as much though.



Cross between Peas, Turkeys and Guineas!

 

[stonykill]

Pekin number 1 bathed and ohhh boy did she enjoy it. Splashing around, having a good old time. Letting her dry some, then bringing in number 2.

Number 1 Pekin has torn flesh and what looks like road rash where her feathers and skin were tore from her. No puncture wounds at all. I managed to get 99% of the dried blood off her feathers with peroxide. She will get re Nustocked shortly. She is looking good all things considered.

 

[Bulldogma]

How do we ask a question for the blog? I would love to know all about combs. Colors, texture, frostbite, changes and what they might mean, what to do about it, etc.

You can ask it here.

 

[Bulldogma]

You shoulda kept them. They would have protected you from real zombies.

Zombies would be scared of them. I mean look at that face!

I have seen a pretty Guinea before though. Those Vulturine Guineas are beautiful, but still have a tinge of the strange face. Not as much though.

Cross between Peas, Turkeys and Guineas!

Talk about a "Butter Face!"

 

[aoxa]

How do we ask a question for the blog? I would love to know all about combs. Colors, texture, frostbite, changes and what they might mean, what to do about it, etc.

Good one. I wonder, is frostbite a huge deal? I had one last year who had a bit on the very tip of her comb. She had a honking comb too (compared to all my other girls). The tips eventually just fell off. Didn't seem to bother her much.

Avoiding frost bite is very important for shows though. If it gets really really cold this winter, I'll be applying vaseline to my BR boys' combs. If that does indeed help prevent it. I've never tried it.

Most of my breeds don't have much of a comb. I prefer showing pea combed breeds (Ameraucanas) so they don't need any intervention on preventing frost bite (neither do the silkies, Houdans, Polish, Easter Eggers, Naked Neck Turkens, Geese, Ducks, etc) Really the only worry for combs is for the barred rocks and the red sex links.

I'm in a different location this winter. Ventilation is better. Last winter I had them in a garage that had a very bad leak in the roof. Though they didn't roost under the leak. Wondering if this may have been the cause of Penny's frost bite.



Penny's frost bite when it was happening.



After the fact. Excuse her molting.

 

[delisha]

glad one of the ducks seems to look good..I am going to wait for the results on the rest.

What an unusual looking bird...almost beautiful in an alien way.

Good posting as always BDM

 

[aoxa]

What an unusual looking bird...almost beautiful in an alien way.

I agree with this assessment

Watched Life of Pi with family last night. That movie was fantastic.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Pekin number 1 bathed and ohhh boy did she enjoy it. Splashing around, having a good old time. Letting her dry some, then bringing in number 2.

Number 1 Pekin has torn flesh and what looks like road rash where her feathers and skin were tore from her. No puncture wounds at all. I managed to get 99% of the dried blood off her feathers with peroxide. She will get re Nustocked shortly. She is looking good all things considered.

Great news stony. no serious injuries.

for the rest of the story.

 

[Beekissed]

geez.... 6 pages since I last checked yesterday. 2 things...just say NO to silkies and no recipes on this thread! Good god there is enough wasted space on this thread with the same 1/2 page pictures being quoted over and over for 10 pages.

I'm pretty sure BYC has a section for recipes. There is enough wasted space on this thread!

Mornin' Stony! Been spending too much time with Al and me, haven't you???

I get you on the wasted space, though. Sometimes I'm in the mood, but sometimes not...this is a learning thread with a little social touch but I want to keep the slant on the learning side.

I think that's a little rude Stony.

Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it has no value.

Nah...that's just Stony's way.

He's been on the OT too long. Good thing you don't follow the OT, you'd be gettin' yer feathers ruffled all the time.

We call it like it is there and advise anyone who can't hang with the big dogs to just stay on the porch.

Good Morning Gnarly Bunch peeps...


With this season being what it is..... keeping house, getting ready for 32 people coming here in 12 days.....think I have the Haflinger sold, please keep your fingers crossed for me....

I am trying to make my way through the 178 posts since I was here last time....

THought you would get a chuckle out of how I keep up with what I have read and deal with when I get interrupted....

I love this, Melabella!

Mountainmama, Count me in on the recipe booklet. I'll pm you, yay to you and bulldogma for taking on extra projects that make us all so happy!
And Bee, I know you feel this isn't maybe the best place for talking about recipes, if I understood you right, but.....I have a little favor to ask. Would you consider asking the Bat for a real old timey recipe for just about anything? something she learned way back when? I hate it when you think you are going to see a real recipe and it turns out to be a box of this and a can of that.

Dang, got home read the tag on this sack tied with twine, and it has the grain by products that I wanted to avoid. ANyway, I have 75 pounds to use up in FF. Anyone ever heard of using sow feed for the chickens? have to say the ingredients look about the same except for the details on what type of vitamin etc has been added.

Yep, farmers do it all the time. Sometimes they use the same general stock feed for all their animals...makes buying and storing tons of grain feeds much easier. Where the GB were last living, they were being fed pig mash.

OK Bee (and everyone else) - just a fun question for you (so have fun with it)!

The Mayan calendar ends on 12/21/2012. While most of us believe this means that this is the end of the Mayan cycle so 12/22/2012 will mark the beginning of a new cycle, there are those that are concerned that there will be a zombie apocalypse beginning on that date. In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what things (including what kind of chickens) would you want to make sure you had on your farm, and why?

(This question is open to ALL folks and I'll post the best answers on the BLOG on the 20th just for fun!)

Now, here is where I'm probably going to offend someone's tender sensibilities. I'd really like it if this wasn't done on this thread, though I cannot prevent you from doing it...not my forum. I hate any and all references to a zombie apocalypse and find those who joke about the end of the world have no real concept of the horrors that will be happening during the tribulation period. The obsession with zombies in this age is sickening to me and preparations for such an ~even when joking~event is an insult to the intelligence of anybody WITH a brain.

I know this is meant as a fun thing and I'm all about fun...but I draw the line at ridiculously idiotic. I like my participation in BYC to be about learning with a little light socializing but I seriously don't think I would stick around at all if I had to listen to teenage dribble about zombies. They've become a part of our pop culture in recent years but I strongly feel that there is a definite evil agenda behind getting the populace so complacent with the idea of the undead murdering and eating the brains of people~or ANYONE murdering and eating another human being. Not a funny thing, not a joke and the many incidents of real life attempts to eat another human in a crazed and "zombie-like" state were in the news this past year. I'm thinking that the old fella that got his face removed in the most brutal of manners would probably have another idea of what is fun or fictional when it comes to zombies.

Wake up, people! If you get nothing out of this thread at all, get the fact that I'm trying to get everyone to see past popular opinion and methods~even in life, if possible~and think for yourselves about what is real and right with your flocks. I can't dictate what folks think about in other parts of their life and I wouldn't want to do so...too big a job, that...but please learn some discernment as you pass through this life. I urge you all to look deeper, use your minds, dare to be different than everyone else and use your heads for something other than senseless knowledge. It's out there...all you have to do is look for it and have the nerve to go against the insipid flow of humanity, stand out and be strong enough to grasp your knowledge in full view of the public opinion.

Sorry. Rant over.

I'd prefer it if excessive mention of zombies not be a part of this good thread, if you don't mind. I appreciate the attempts to have fun...but fun about evil things is where I would like to draw the line. I'm not on board with this one.

How do we ask a question for the blog? I would love to know all about combs. Colors, texture, frostbite, changes and what they might mean, what to do about it, etc.

Why not ask that on the OT thread or here? I can tell you what I have seen over the years and over on the OT you can get the opinion of old guys who have kept birds in all weathers for even longer than I.

Good one. I wonder, is frostbite a huge deal? I had one last year who had a bit on the very tip of her comb. She had a honking comb too (compared to all my other girls). The tips eventually just fell off. Didn't seem to bother her much.

Avoiding frost bite is very important for shows though. If it gets really really cold this winter, I'll be applying vaseline to my BR boys' combs. If that does indeed help prevent it. I've never tried it.

Most of my breeds don't have much of a comb. I prefer showing pea combed breeds (Ameraucanas) so they don't need any intervention on preventing frost bite (neither do the silkies, Houdans, Polish, Easter Eggers, Naked Neck Turkens, Geese, Ducks, etc) Really the only worry for combs is for the barred rocks and the red sex links.

I'm in a different location this winter. Ventilation is better. Last winter I had them in a garage that had a very bad leak in the roof. Though they didn't roost under the leak. Wondering if this may have been the cause of Penny's frost bite.

Bingo! We can talk more about that if you all would like. It is definitely a health concern and something that folks bandy about on what breeds to get.