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[ReiMiraa]

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I see...... I think you are trying to start a new fashion craze.

She is awfully cute.

You havent seen the girls at college lately? The new thing is to wear feather earrings.... like huge feathers.... and feather hair extenstions.... so maybe CL likes her birdies alive as a hair accessory.

 

[ultasol]

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Appleyards, no to the Pekins.


Probably this spring, if not, then summer.

I usually separate them early spring and then again in summer. Just let me know a few weeks before you think you might be interested... They are *great* meat ducks and beautiful in the barnyard, not half shabby layers either but eat more than a welsh harli. They are, however, surprisingly good foragers considering their bulk- I've seen mine catch and eat mice and frogs.

 

[Ogress]

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[Kaneke]

ummm -- time for me to hit the hay

tomorrow I'll have to do some research to find out why ONLY Ginger and Becky are producing eggs now ... given that the whole flock came from the same hatchery at the same time, ate the same feed (game bird starter then game bird feed, because of Wai Ulu Farm's recommendation that chickens actually thrive better with more protein -- supplemented by black oil sunflower seeds and an hour or two every day cropping the native-weedy yard, plus lately the fallen apples from the neighbor's yard and any dandelion that I can manage to spot and pull up)

my showing experience is with cats (lynxpoint Siamese and redpoint Balinese) .. was great fun for awhile but got too doggoned expensive and time consuming; then I wound up with FELV and mites (on both me and the cats)

even with vet exams at check in, some things get missed, and the cats in the next cage infected us all ... and I lost 2/3 of my cats (this was before there was a vaccine for FELV) -- when Skinny Melynx and Chocolate Sunday died in my arms, I thought I might die too ... Skinny had turned out to be my "perfect" cat .... you know, the one you have a mental image of breeding towards .... prettiest chocolate lynxpoint you ever saw

so let me rouse Roxy, take her out for her night-time ritual, then see you all tomorrow

 

[Rainwolf]

Hi everyone!

I'm finishing up preps for my trip and have a question for ya....

I have 16 LF birds (3 roosters as I still can not figure which of the 2 blacks are OE vs AM)

I have 1 bantam rooster (Speedy)... Wobbly had a stroke/seizure and passed today... poor little guy

At least he had fun running around for 10 months.

So my question..... I have my new 4' wide 8' long 7' high coop which I just transferred all birds too.
I would normally put speedy and wobbly in a dog crate but since he is now alone I want to leave him in the big coop with the others.
Is this OK? or a Bad Idea? I don't want to wake up one morning to a dead Speedy because I've done the wrong thing.

Speedy is my first bantam and I have what I hope are 3 girls growing up for him in the teen coop....
He's a tough little bugger and will challenge the 2 young LF boys but not Fabio.... The Head Honcho
Speedy also will try and breed with the LF girls... dunno if he ever hits the target tho...

Fabio will be going when I figure which of the Black boys is the true AM and they are starting to crow/breed. The OE boy will be going as well..

Also does anyone want 2 hens? they are 3 years old and lay white/cream eggs. Looks to be Blue Andalusian mixes?
They came with the coop and have done fine in Quarantine so now all are in the new coop. They have laid a few eggs for me but have been disrupted so much and with winter setting in I can not say how much they will lay.
They are free to anyone wanting to start out or add to their current flock but if they get eaten it will be by me

Trip will be to American Samoa with some time in Samoa as well. Mom will be celebrating her 76th there in the nice 79F Tropical setting

and I wanna swim with the Green Sea Turtles!
(there is a place setup just to swim with them any other place you can not interact with them as they are endangered)

 

[ultasol]

That is SO heartbreaking Kaneke.
I showed my yorkshire male, who is now 12, a couple times. Decided dog shows were too cutthroat for me. Poultry shows are much more laid back, lower stress. Also, although I do get attached to my showbirds it's not in the same manner I get attached to my dogs.

I would have given up showing cats too given your experience. How sad!

 

[Ogress]

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Poor Wobbly - but you did give him much more of a life than he would have had elsewhere.

If you want a bantam Cochin roo, I have 3 extra

I don't need more birds at this time - I need to get the egg eating under control before it snows!

Have fun in Samoa! I'm jealous. Pre-kid, I dove with turtles on the Great Barrier Reef, Manta Rays in Yap. and lots of sharks at Blue Corner in Palau ....

 

[justbugged]

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Sorry!!

I got your voicemail. I have been napping on and off all day. A little bit Nyquil induced! I will give ya a call tomorrow evening when I get off work!

That worked for me. I ended up with 2 neighbors knocking at my door with all the nasty little dogs. What I didn't know is that these 2 neighbors don't talk to each other. Some angst over a street tree, and dog kennels. It was rather awkward for a bit. Any way I met another great neighbor, that I have a lot in common with. I ended up over at her house looking at her garden. Her garden is beautiful.

When I got home I realized that I had left the door to the garage open, as well as the back sliding glass door. It was dark in here, and I flipped on the lights. A few moments later I see something kind of big fly by my head. It was this that flew by me.

So then I had to figure out how to catch her and get Fred back outside. I realized that the first thing I needed to do was turn the lights off. She was hiding in the garden window, so then that meant I needed to move half the plantation. So she got caught easily. But then I realize and confirmed that she didn't want to go outside where it was dark and sleepy time. So I now have Fred tucked into the greenhouse for the night. She wasn't wanting to fly off into the night. I left the door open so she should be able to leave in the morning.

As long as I had to house Fred for part of the day, I figured that I was going to get pictures to prove she was here. I told Fred that's the price of bird food in the people house.

 

[justbugged]

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I see...... I think you are trying to start a new fashion craze.

She is awfully cute.

You havent seen the girls at college lately? The new thing is to wear feather earrings.... like huge feathers.... and feather hair extenstions.... so maybe CL likes her birdies alive as a hair accessory.

Well with little tiny birdcages that are just big enough for a chick that size. I think we add French hoops, and the girls could have two chicks, one on each ear. I wonder if the weight of the chicks would create bigger holes in ones ear? Of course that could be just part of the fad. After all their are tribes that stretch out their ear lobs. I seen pictures of this, it helps the girls get a husband.

 

[Ogress]

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Sorry!!

I got your voicemail. I have been napping on and off all day. A little bit Nyquil induced! I will give ya a call tomorrow evening when I get off work!

That works for me. I ended up with 2 neighbors knocking at my door with all the nasty little dogs. What I didn't know is that these 2 neighbors don't talk to each other. Some angst over a street tree, and dog kennels. It was rather awkward for a bit. Any way I met another great neighbor, that I have a lot in common with. I ended up over at her house looking at her garden. Her garden is beautiful.

When I got home I realized that I had left the door to the garage open, as well as the back sliding glass door. It was dark in here, and I flipped on the lights. A few moments later I see something kind of big fly by my head. It was this that flew by me.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21930_hummingbirdvisit_008.jpg

So then I had to figure out how to catch her and get Fred back outside. I realized that the first thing I needed to do was turn the lights off. She was hiding in the garden window, so then that meant I needed to move half the plantation. So she got caught easily. But then I realize and confirmed that she didn't want to go outside where it was dark and sleepy time. So I now have Fred tucked into the greenhouse for the night. She wasn't wanting to fly off into the night. I left the door open so she should be able to leave in the morning.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21930_hummingbirdvisit_006.jpg

As long as I had to house Fred for part of the day, I figured that I was going to get pictures to prove she was here. I told Fred that's the price of bird food in the people house.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21930_hummingbirdvisit_004.jpg

Sweet!

We sometimes get them stuck up in our skylights. I ended up removing my feeders because it is easier than teaching kids to shut a door.