Hi All, my puter was down since yesterday morning.. 7 pages to read to catch up..
this morning I let the birds loose and lo and behold, there were two baby geese with them.. ??WTH ?? the door of their pen got pushed open and they and all the quail were loose.. so I caught all the quail (5) and the last 2 goslings .. put the quails into the small lean-to pen .. turned the baby geese loose with the flock of gooses.. they all seemed pleases with the changes..
I stood around outside , after chores , with the camera.. took a few pictures.. the peacock was strutting his stuff,,,, until I brought the camera out.. I still got a shot of the small peacock, with the scraggly tail..
I have the heater turned on the tractor, it is frozen yet.. I just might need it tomorrow..
I do keep birds in those pens sometimes during the winter.. I stack hay bales all around to insulate them, somewhat.. a year ago, I kept 10 roosters in one of the pens.. no hay bales, they did just fine.. no frozen combs or anything.. I just put a thick layer of straw on the bottom to keep it warmer on their feet..
right now I have one full of Delaware hens, and the other has all the Barred Rock hens and their rooster.. I am getting an egg a day from the BR's .. I am not giving any of them layer ration.. I am "purifying" them for when I will start collecting eggs for the incubator. in about 2 weeks or so.... I took pictures of them today..
for some odd reason, whenever I take new pictures, I cannot get them to come up on my puter.
have to ask DD#2 how she does that..
............jiminwisc..........