This is my number 1 son, Gordon.
He now is completely blind. Had to remove his other eye.
This is DuPont, aka Super Dupe!
This is from my camera phone, I couldnt resist snapping it...
They say if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a...
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I have done the craigslist thing, it works for me. I make sure they know that they are not welcome in my breeding pens. I only get rid of Roos, I have a "laying" pen that provides me with eating eggs.
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Chick weed.
I had let them out one sunny day, most of them were just pecking around at grass and stuff, but I guess she got a taste for the good stuff! It was one long piece, stem and all, about 9 inches long.
*at least I sure hope that was it.
-Darris
eta: Thanks for all of...
Ok, so I am now a chicken surgeon.
I had a 6 week old Blue Copper pullet with an impacted craw. No one within 200 miles of me would touch it. So I had to. With the help of the Sticky on the subject here and a friend in the surgical field, I just had to do it. I was not willing to kill her or...
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I agree. By the time someone else breeds say a Davis stock with their own Davis stock and so on... They will develope different traits depending on each chicken. So, even though they are Davis stock, they may have no feathered shanks, or a squirrel tail or something that has changed.
So...
Meet Veruca & Willy.
My first goats. The wife couldn't just get some goats (kinda like just chickens), so now we have a pair of Fainting Goats.
...and yes, dont know a thing about em!
Only one of mine is a handful. You just can't be around him. It seems he only attacks me when I have something in my hands, food, water, treats. You can't turn your back on him or you will get slammed.
*I did name him Sid Vicious after the bass player, but I guess he is living up to his name?
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I work with a guy who has a sister that provides him with farm fresh eggs for free. I gave him a batch of mine to try and now he wants to buy from me. He said they are indeed that much better than those "regular" eggs he gets from his sister.
Smooth, creamy, not strong, melt in your...