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[Illia]

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He's still up for grabs. I've got some hens but only one that will be for purebred breeding, so unless you promise/plan to keep any potential offspring only for yourself or to sell as Easter Eggers, my black girl is the only good option to go with him.

I'd like to see that more BBS Ameraucanas are bred without the muffs/beard issue, and I've got some hens who although they have muffs/beard, they will indeed pass on clean faced offspring or their children will (depending on the male in the equation)

 

[Rainwolf]

My Ameraucana chicks from chickielady are hatching!
I will have update when I get home from work.

Orgress maybe I'll get lucky and have many pullets!

 

[blueducklings]

Illia, do you know about colour genetics?
I've been trying todo some research on this.
What colour do you think Mo is??
the dad is blue & the mom is penciled (brown with pied)
I thought blue dilution gene is carried in the mommy duck, but looks like that is not the case.
Soes that mean that there is a chance I might get a Lavender duck from these 2 ducks's??
Is Mo lavender??
I've never seen a lavender baby.
I am so wanting the book...
Colour breeding in domestic ducks...but it is not available.

 

[Ogress]

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LOL! Sounds like mine, only we don't have a TV so he sits in front of his computer! He sits on an exercise ball as though that will count! He is taking next week off work because he is exhausted from sitting in front of the computer all day. Here I'm hoping that means he will help me build gravel paths to the chicken coops and garden, fence in another part of the yard so the chickens will have more safe areas to roam, maybe help me clean things up around here or paint the walls that I patched 2 years ago ... when he told me he is going to do nothing but lie in bed and watch movies all day!

I used to like Sci Fi movies, but seeing him sloth around all day with nothing on his agenda but watching movies and eating pizza makes me

DD and I (especially DD) are allergic to many antibiotics. I have been using Tea Tree oil for decades with no ill effects. (I used to order a 1L bottle of pure tea tree oil each year and make my own products from it) Another great product is Manuka Honey. I have not tried it on fungus, but I have never seen anything clear up bacterial infections quicker.

You mean eat the honey??
I have a 5 day supply of antibiotics for my cough that I am just starring at. Hate to take the stuff, but I hate bacteria just as much.

We smear it on cuts and scrapes, suck on spoons of it when we feel a sore throat comiing on, use it to sweeten tea ... I had shingles once and MRSA on my leg a few years back ... spread quickly in just 2 days from something that looked like a zit to a blistering, burning, itchy rash in just 2 days ...3 doctors, 6+ antibiotic perscriptions later (that is when I developed my antibiotic allergy while my DD and my mom were born with their allergies). They told me my skin was going to blacken and slough off. They told me the honey was voodoo medicine. I figured at that point, it could do no more harm, so I slathered it all over my leg, wrapped it in pads, gauze and cloth diapers to try and keep it off the bed sheets, in 2 days the rash was gone! Within a week, my skin looked fresh and new, no skin turned black and sloughed off. Best of all, at least at the time, it completely soothed the pain, burning and itching. We always kee it on hand.

 

[Illia]

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Ducks. Whole other ballpark for me, sorry. I'm a chicken color genetics person.

If you know or figure duck genetics work the same I could help you, but otherwise, I really don't know if mottling, lavender, etc works the same. It doesn't seem to though. I see a lot of pied and mottled ducks, yet in chickens it is recessive.

 

[blueducklings]

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You mean eat the honey??
I have a 5 day supply of antibiotics for my cough that I am just starring at. Hate to take the stuff, but I hate bacteria just as much.

We smear it on cuts and scrapes, suck on spoons of it when we feel a sore throat comiing on, use it to sweeten tea ... I had shingles once and MRSA on my leg a few years back ... spread quickly in just 2 days from something that looked like a zit to a blistering, burning, itchy rash in just 2 days ...3 doctors, 6+ antibiotic perscriptions later (that is when I developed my antibiotic allergy while my DD and my mom were born with their allergies). They told me my skin was going to blacken and slough off. They told me the honey was voodoo medicine. I figured at that point, it could do no more harm, so I slathered it all over my leg, wrapped it in pads, gauze and cloth diapers to try and keep it off the bed sheets, in 2 days the rash was gone! Within a week, my skin looked fresh and new, no skin turned black and sloughed off. Best of all, at least at the time, it completely soothed the pain, burning and itching. We always kee it on hand.

Where does one get this nummy voodoo medicine??

I just lapped up the local honey I bought from the farm store lastyear & am just looking for another jar of it.
Ihave a jar of deer velvet honey from New Zeland I was going to put in my tea tomorrow, but voodoo honey sounds more fun than deer stuff.

The other place I was goint to try for honey was De Youngs at Woodinville.
Nobody on site has honey to sell me by chance???

 

[blueducklings]

Mo needs Larry & Curly.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Yes honey has many many untold uses. Some take a certain type of honey. And if you have hayfever type allergies (comsuming) local honey has been shown to help. Just make sure you get PURE LOCAL honey.

 

[Ogress]

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He's still up for grabs. I've got some hens but only one that will be for purebred breeding, so unless you promise/plan to keep any potential offspring only for yourself or to sell as Easter Eggers, my black girl is the only good option to go with him.

I'd like to see that more BBS Ameraucanas are bred without the muffs/beard issue, and I've got some hens who although they have muffs/beard, they will indeed pass on clean faced offspring or their children will (depending on the male in the equation)

We're still interested. My son LOVES that bird. He saw him on your web site a few months back. (I'm still interested in Araucanas as well). I'm figuring out the coop/run/pasture thing. trying to decide if I keep roos together in one area and hens in another so they can all free-range at the same time, or separate out by breed with large runs and roatate the birds through the yard to free-range. .... I might make an area for EE's, and then use a breeding pen if I want some purebred (I don't have an incubator, but my fingers are itching to get one, and several times I've had to slap them as they did web-searches for incubators!) I have 5 coops (oops)

 

[blueducklings]

What is Raw Honey?
Is there cooked honey?