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[Chickielady]

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Yes

I am a Ty flyer, when I am not tang tungled from too many coffacuppies.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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So you set up the wildlife cam before you went to bed?
I cannot waite to see what you get on the camera.

Remember it is motion activated, so you do not want to point it at things constantly moving, like a busy street (cars) or a chicken pen (all you will get is pics of chickens) nor directly at the sun.
Point it down a trail, not across the trail, so you can get pics of critters coming at the camera.
Also good to point it down the fence line, to see what is on the outside of and walking around, your pens & fences.
It is fun!!!

Or why I can't have a wildlife cam: all I would get would be photos of cattle wandering around in the middle of the night. I'd like a remore set-up on the hill, though, wonder how many times there's wild suburban teenagers sitting on the top of the piece of culvert* the coyotes den in?




*part of the liquid chicken manure fertilizer set-up my father set up and then abandoned when he couldn't figure out how to deal with the infinitely clogging properties of feathers.

 

[Illia]

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No Muscovies. Mom HATES them.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yes

I am a Ty flyer, when I am not tang tungled from too many coffacuppies.

I have a friend who works at the American Museum of Fly Fishing and does a lot of photography of antique flies for their magazine. Amazing art!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No Muscovies. Mom HATES them.

Your Mom is my kind of people.

Did she get herself into a locked poultry house full of Muscovies in toddlerhood, too? Those things BITE.

 

[Chickielady]

Don't get Cheryl going on Muscovies either!

 

[Chickielady]

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Or maybe the owner passed or something but it still doesn't make dumping OK. I really like your second idea. let them know how much you sold those nice birds for.

I thought alot about all the angles why some one dump these very expensive birds...
and IF someone passed away, someone else would attempt to sell the birds.
There have been NO ADS in the newspaper, on bulletin boards or on CL here, for Pea Fowl for sale.
Nor Free...even if someone did not want them anymore, they would post an ad, a bulletin on a simple piece of paper, or for free on CL...this person did not do any of these things.
He made no attempt to either sell them nor give them away free.
He dumped them...that is why I expect there is a very distraught woman somewhere, trying to find her Pea Fowl...funny & very sad at the same time.

 

[SadieSue]

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You new coop looks wonderful and boy do those chicks look happy! I'm not surprised the EE chicks got busy dust bathing right away. Their mama, Whitey Ford, taught them that those are one of life's greatest pleasures. They've been bathing in dirt since they were teeny, tiny chicks.
It is a very nice thing to have good BYC friends - good job getting that coop in place guys!

 

[RustyHen]

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Yes

I am a Ty flyer, when I am not tang tungled from too many coffacuppies.

 

[Jake Levi]

I have had Muscovys on and off for years and never had a problem with temperament ! Mine were always free ranging, if that makes a difference, but I found them very socialable. Strange. Maybe I had a friendlier strain?? Anyhow I will have some down the road, along with Wishard Turkey that are also great free rangers. Both of these are very economical freezer fillers. Some morning scratch feed and they have home figured out, and both will also raise more.

It looks like I will be adding several more chicken breeds in the spring, all homsteaders, and heritage or soon will be heritage breeds.And two very old European breeds.

But the Iowa Blue is one I have followed for a long time and it needs preserving, too many good things about it for it to get dropped along the way.

So this fall's shed/yard build wont be the last for sure.

Robin thats an interesting idea on the chicken skins, when procdessing chickens I often skin them before going into the bags, this could be a way to get fly tyers some different feathers. Neat idea. I havent a clue on tying flys and with my clumsy fingers wont try.