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[PapaChaz]

yup. Mourning Dove. I've never seen them before. They're cool looking. Crazy that it didn't seem to be bothered by my presence at all. I zoomed the pic and it looks like it's pretty young(?).

yeah pretty sure that's it too. Never seen one up close, not a juvenile like that. Probably couldn't fly yet, and was trying to play invisible, LOL great pic!

What is the name that is good info thanks!!

Not sure what the name would be for Rome, would be easy enough to find one though.

 

[katiedarling]

So, Stanley & The Golden Girls will be 16wks on Wednesday. Do I need to keep my eyes peeled for eggs soon? They're BOs and I heard they usually don't start laying until after 20+ weeks. Blanche has a lot of red in her face and Rose, too. Sophia isn't quite as prominent as the rest.

 

[PapaChaz]

Serious, snipes are real? really?

yes dear, there really is such a bird as a snipe. So, when you went snipe hunting, did you get to carry the pillow case, or the metal pan and wooden spoon?

 

[PapaChaz]

I see Robo lurking, I can't believe he hasn't jumped into the snipe hunting conversation...........

 

[PapaChaz]

So, Stanley & The Golden Girls will be 16wks on Wednesday. Do I need to keep my eyes peeled for eggs soon? They're BOs and I heard they usually don't start laying until after 20+ weeks. Blanche has a lot of red in her face and Rose, too. Sophia isn't quite as prominent as the rest.

I've had pullets start laying as early as 18 weeks, then others not until 24 weeks. I'm thinking the 18 weekers were leghorns, I could go back through some documentation and be sure, but if it wasn't them, it was the 'commercial blacks' I had before that I really thought had a lot of australorp in them. I put golf balls in the nests a few weeks ago, and seems lately every time I go in the coop to clean or add food, etc, the leghorn and australorp hens I have are in there nosing around. I'm finding white, black and gray feathers in the nests, so I know all of them are checking the nests out. I really expect to start getting eggs within the next few weeks. My AM's are 19 weeks, the leghorns are 17 and the aussies are 16.

I gave the aussie rooster to the grand daughters flock, she was all excited to get a rooster so she can start having 'baby chicks to play with' 4 years old, and already knows she needs a rooster to have babies.....Of course they have all kinds of animals, and 'farm kids' seem to learn things a bit sooner.....

 

[katsdar]

yes dear, there really is such a bird as a snipe. So, when you went snipe hunting, did you get to carry the pillow case, or the metal pan and wooden spoon?

neither cause I didn't think they were real

 

[PapaChaz]

ok went and looked back through some previous threads and it was indeed brown eggs, so that would have been the commercial blacks. Bought chicks March 8th and had eggs July 12th, that's 18 weeks. This was back in 2011

 

[RoboDuck]

Sorry. Things at work changed and I have had less time for the forum. I have been involved in some snipe hunting incidents.... Both real and fake. Shot a snipe once when I was a teenager. For those who don't believe snipes are real, google them. I think they are like marsh or wading bird category.

 

[GAchickennewbie]

Quote: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Indigo_Bunting/id

They are a species that I'm always excited to see, since they aren't spotted often.

 

[Coach C]

if you get galvanized or painted a light color it will actually be cooler because it will reflect it back away. I put galvalume on mine, the last three I've built were done with either galvanized or lets see, was it tan or gray? either/or it reflected the heat away

Thanks for the info. I thought about painting it, so that's what I will do.