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[Chickielady]

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I want to know how you did it? I am so computer illiterate!

Copy/paste any photo to your paint (Microsoft) or in my case my Lexmark file, then adjust the color (edit) I can get rid of red eye, darken, lighten, change colors, etc.
Got a pic you cannot DO?
Send it to me & I will pink it for ya.

 

[Chickielady]

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wow! that's cool it's a paint Mulie!! Or Black tail what ever you call them up there!!!

Blacktail, YOU have Muley.

 

[Chickielady]

Well I think I am finally done cutting up flank & odd pieces and stir frying for dog ffod, added some quinoa rolled (little snow flakes!) and some chopped greens & rolled old fashioned oats.
Stir some more & bag for individual feeding for the dog.
Packed away alot!
he is also so happy with various parts & bones..
NOW, I am going to bed after liver & onions..all ours. taters & green beans, all ours.

Tomorrow is another hunt.
Mine.

 

[RustyHen]

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Thank you Cl,
I'm interested in Icelandics also but the escape artists thing has me worried.

Mine have been very good and only 1 has ever escaped..but that was because I had let them out to free range up in the fenced pasture..next thing I know, one is in the front yard.
It is easy sailing from up on the hill down into the front yard area...and as soon as they land they freak & want back in.
So, I have no worries on escape artists.
If they are in their pen, gate closed to the fenced uphill pasture, they have never gotten out.
One more thing I love about the Icess, the Cockerals all get along.
You can (I do) have 5 cockerals & 5 hens, and they all get along like a little family unto themselves, no Cocks fighting at all.
And everyday they get more beautiful.
I have one cockeral, who has a beautiful blue duckwing stripe, just like a mallard duck, gold neck hackle, black body & red/orange saddle hackle.
He is stunning!
A red head with crest!
They have it all!

Show us a pic of him if you can.

 

[Kaneke]

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wow! that's cool it's a paint Mulie!! Or Black tail what ever you call them up there!!!

Blacktail, YOU have Muley.

I think they are technically Columbian Blacktail

http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/deer.html#species

 

[SadieSue]

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The first two nights, I went out after dark and scooped all the chickens out of the corner (of the run) and put them in the coop. All 10 of them.

Tonight, it was marginally lighter, but the EEs were not in the pile. I think they were already in the coop! I wonder how long it will take the others to figure it out. I tried to put as many as I could on the roosts.

It's very possible the EEs were already in the coop since they grew up in the mini coop and were used to using a ramp already. Your coop is much nicer though so they must think they're movin' on up!
So the integrated "flocks" are getting on well I take it?

 

[RustyHen]

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I was going to say love that one when you said you had made it, I have been thinking of just how. Now I know!

 

[RustyHen]

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Illia Have you read anything on the Euskal Oiloa breed?

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Yes, everyone seems to be doing great! If there is any squabbling over pecking order, they're not doing it while I'm watching.

 

[justbugged]

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A Charlotte is what I found on the very last pull of old tomato vines last week. She went scurrying off just under my hand, I dropped they vines.

and looked all over for her eggs, but could not find any. Could not make myself go back for 2 days. I could just feel those baby spiders crawling up my arms.... eeeek!

The baby spiders hatch much earlier in the year. Most of the spiders we see right now are the babies that hatched earlier in the year. The spiders we are seeing now will lay the egg sacks about now. The egg sacks winter over to hatch again in the spring. So there really shouldn't be babies with the mother spider. Slugs gross in out more.