Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[momgille]

Oh just an FYI, when Mourning doves fly REALLY fast, the do not make any noise at all.......

The mourning doves at my house make a big noise and a nice outline on my living room window... The feeder is not located in a good place for them... Have had many dazed and confused mourning doves. Worst window kill was a crow. I thought a there was a bomb blast the house shook when it hit the window. The flock (or what ever a family of crows is called) had a funeral cawing in the trees over the house mourning the loss.

 

[Bigfamily4me]

For CC and Baby and Deli and anyone else wanting to see...
I took pics of my chocolate Orpington bantams with my phone. I hope they load!

The male is Ghirardelli and the female is Ganache.

Fluffy butts with my Swedish Flower Hen photo bomber

 

[Celtic Chick]

About flippin' time, woman...........

 

[babylady4]

Love it! Thanks BigFam, they are beautiful!!!!

Momgille, a flock of crows is called a murder. Appropriate for today.......

The Copper hawk will fly through the trees chasing the mourning doves, that is when they make no sound while flying.


Veg out day, doing laundry and watching documentaries on Netflix. Baking a cheesecake too.

 

[Fuxzi]

What a dead night only got 17 trick or treaters and I live in the middle of town! I guess its just to cold.

 

[unkadan]

"Swedish Flower Hen photo bomber"

with a doo like that of course she is!

 

[denimandlace69]

What a dead night

only got 17 trick or treaters and I live in the middle of town! I guess its just to cold.

The little kids are a bunch of wusses! My kids went. I told them I've gone in my snow pants before and a little rain won't kill them. Every year I run out of candy, but not this year. If I would've known the kids couldn't handle the rain I would've bought the good stuff!

 

[Celtic Chick]

Speaking of dead nights, I can hear an echo in here............

 

[jbher]

Hi All! I posted maybe once or twice a long time ago when I first joined BYC and wanted to come back and say "HI!" I live in Hudson which is in St Croix County - right along the St. Croix River bordering Minnesota. We don't have any chickens... yet. We are literally days away from passing a new ordinance in Hudson to allow chickens in the city. We will be able to have just 5 hens. My oldest daughter is going to be joining 4H this month and we are so excited! She is hoping to show a hen at the fair - though we don't know much at all about poultry shows, we do show our Bernese Mountain Dog (pictured in my profile) in conformation shows

I'm wondering, our ordinance will take effect on January 1st. At what point should I start looking for breeders for the chickens we would like? And because we're only allowed 5 - I'm not sure how exactly we should go about this... Do we get extras because we won't know for sure if we have hens or roos? We know some family's in the country that will take the roos but I don't want to get one of each breed that I want and then a month or two months go by before I know the sex and then I'm left without that breed at all.

Here are some of what we're considering:

Cream Legbar's BBS, English Orps Splash or Blue, Lav or Splash Ameraucana, BLR Wyandotte, Black copper Maran, Welsummer's... I'm having a really hard time narrowing down to just 5. We want to have a "pretty" egg basket I may take off the Cream Legbar since the Ameraucana lays a blue egg and I don't know that I want two blue eggs out of my 5. Any advice???

Hope to get to know all of you better in the next few months

Jen

 

[cuties]

Jen, I wish you the very best of luck! What an exciting thing for you!! I wish your daughter best of luck at her shows!!
Lots of people here to help fill you up!
If you are interested, I am currently collecting eggs from my blr wyandotte. This is a trial run. The parents are of decent quality. And I am hopefull to get some good chicks! Lmk if you would be interested. We had some birds tested for shows. But would be willing to have the guy come again if you prefer. If your interested, pm and ill get you pics of mom and dad
Delisha on here has the very most amazing english orps you will ever see!


It is very echoee in here cc :'(
I wish all you old timers would come back!!!
I miss you guys.

Well, ellis is finally layinf ☆ blackie is very happy to have her all to himself!!
And we have a few test eggs under angel. I just could not break her broodiness!! I hope the chicks do well! It will be cold! But she is a good mother.

Hope you all have a good friday.