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[Chickielady]

nighty night

watch out for the witches and goblins....snoblins and assorted freaky monsters...and green bean men.....

 

[Rainwolf]

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These little devils are a good example of hen and roo...it should be very obvious which is a roo by the swelling comb.
As he ages it will get flatter and wider, and by 5 or 6 months, crowing, hackle clad and kicking fanny...But, roos raised together may not have any issues with each other.
One succombs to being #2 and everyone gets along.
The RIWs, Leghorns and RIRs can get aggresive though not usually wyandottes.
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These are RIWs, and although bigger than wyandottes, they grow and develope about the same, so much so that sometimes it is hard to tell them apart...the important part is notice the young cockeral's comb swelling, and the 3 pullets are not...and the roo's comb and wattles continue to develope.
I also have Cheryl's 2 old biddy wyandotte hens, which I have come to love, and when they first got here they were fighting with all the birds, roos and hens.
Cheryl said they had never seen a rooster

so they picked fights...and of course the order of peck comes into play with all birds...so you may have a testy white wyandotte hen...look at the comb, it will be red if it is a roo, and pale and small to non existant almost if it is a pullet.

Its a red single comb while the other 2 have pale pea? combs (flat on the head)
I will have to take a photo when I get a day off work.
I would say a roo but I'd hate to cull a hen by mistake.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Please PM me with the info too. Pretty please

 

[pongoid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStq-IvLaXk

For All Hallows Evening....This song kicks ass...."Let's have a party. There's a full moon in the sky. It's the hour of the wolf and I don't wanna die!"

 

[Rainwolf]

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Oh my fingers are crossed for you !!!!

1st chick... 24hrs later 2nd chick.... they are doing this on purpose!

 

[justbugged]

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I wish that I was better at the crocheting thing now. I am very good at granny squares. I can even crochet them it the dark with no more than the little speck of light coming from the car radio with the car turned off. DH, “The Boy”, and I were out on one of the forest service roads not long after I had bought a brand new minivan. The car had 2500 miles on it when DH ran over a rock and took out the oil pan. He got us pulled out of the way, and the realized that if we were going to get off the mountain before tomorrow, that he and the “The Boy” were going to have to hike back up to the top of the hill to get cell coverage. We were half way to Yakima out on Forest Service road 70. While they did that I had my bag of crocheting, and you won't believe how fast I can crochet when I think I am going to have to sleep in the car all night without a blanket. I still don’t know how the three us large sized adults and Puppy were going to sleep in the back of the car that night. (Puppy is as big as an adult person also.) I am still very grateful that it never came to that. I would have gotten a blanket big enough to almost cover us, if we had needed that night. The guys were able to get a call out, and DH's Dad and brother came and saved us that night. The insurance covered the oil pan, and the motor never blew up while I owned the car.

So I am going to have to think about the egg cozy that looks like a chicken. It sounds like it was really cute. I loved going to Germany in 2004. We got to see a lot of the country in the week we were there. The best part was getting to go to the Towns of Triburg. We got a fabulous Cuckoo Clock from the store where the Germans buy their clocks. DH works for a German company, so in theory he was working that week.

I agree with Chickie that the roos need quilted hats with ear flaps. I also think that the hats will need little pom poms on the top of each hat. I think that neon colors maybe the way to go or maybe a few in camo too.


I did have a bunch of yarn with me on that trip. I have made a lot of recycled yarn blankets. I was buying up the yarn at thrift stores for a while. I still watch for small scrap yarn.
The thrift store have since raised the prices on the donated yarn. For a long time I was crocheting blankets and giving them away. I figured that the scrap yarn would end up in a landfill, so I thought that if I used up then it would benefit all of us. I used up a lot of bits and pieces of yarn over a few years. I had a bag full of yarn with me that day. I am able to crochet while DH was driving. I haven't made much since. I did finish the blanket I started that day.

 

[Chickielady]

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I am still researching all chicken feed...and I cannot find 1 that is made with anything but "plant proteins" except that awful expensive 'Woodland' gamebird starter/breeder that costs $40 a 50# bag.
I just cannot get into feeding my birds meat...it just has that 'mad cow' thing written all over it...it was not meant to be.
Cows were not meant to eat meat, birds although many are omnivorus, were not meant to eat meat on a daily basis.
I am also still researching the soybean dilema, so will see where that goes.
I will say my birds love this new feed, they are eating it instead of picking through it and spilling it every where, and that is good...and the price is right, and it is 'home made' and very very fresh.
I can describe the fresh smell by saying it is like the difference between sun ripened tomatoes in your garden, compared to imported tomatoes from Chili in January.
One is ripe, and smells wonderful, and has flavor !
The other is bland, and has little or no nutritional value due to never being able to ripen...one is fresh and the other not.
When I opened the bag of feed from Patriot, I was knocked over by the rich fresh smell.
Yummy.

I will also say one more thing before I get off my daily soap box...since all this feed has basically the same thing in it (soy)...then why don't you get your feed from Patriot, it is 1/3 the price, and much fresher...I got 2 bags of layer, 1 grower, and 2 bags of starter, and 6 bales of straw, nice soft straw, for $79.85 !!!!!!!!!!!
I computed that the straw alone at Del's or the other feed stores is not only thick coarse and $12 a bale...why would you not hitch up the trailer, and drive out and pick up a bunch ?
Unless you are so far away as to make it not worth your while ???
Off to M&D (mom & Dad's) today and will be back later..everyone have a great Halloween !!!!!!!!!

And how goes the chick hatch Rainwolf ??????????????

 

[Chickielady]

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This is so awesome ! Thanks for sharing ! I have been rockin out all morning !!!!

DH says he will go out in the woods and get the wildview camera and bring it in so we can read off the model # in a while~~

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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http://bestsmileys.com/kissing2/1.gif. tell us about it ?

Good Friends, good Fellowship. Beth Moore is a fantastic speaker, teacher, bible study person(?).....We went over Ephesians 4: 1-16. She is from Texas. Neat-Neat lady. She took a paper bag of leaves, from the trees outside the motel, onto the stage and was saying how wonderful the colors are. When she left Texas it had been 95 degrees. It was cold over in Spokane this weekend. Had a great time. There were 5,500 women there, handful of men.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Yep, this is the guy, actually didn't seem him coming back as it was too dark....but we did se the "Gatherers".