Les Larson, (aka Bert)
Chicken_art@yahoo.com
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Links to articles about the keeping of Chickens, eggs, etc.
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Chicken diseases.
http://countrysidenetwork.com/daily/poultry/feed-health/five-chicken-diseases-and-symptoms/
Do eggs need to be refrigerated or washed ?
http://countrysidenetwork.com/daily/poultry/poultry-poultry/do-eggs-need-to-be-refrigerated-and-washed/
Five reasons to eat eggs.
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/egg-facts-5-reasons-eat-eggs/
There's more to an egg than what meets the eye... Interesting egg facts.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/there-is-more-to-an-egg-than-meets-the-eye-interesting-egg-facts
Showing posts with label Chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chickens. Show all posts
20160308
160308 Barnyard drama - Soap opera. Oops vs Barney
160308 Barnyard drama - Soap opera. (Chickens are people too).
Couldn't find Barney last night for coop lock up. Finally found him hiding under the deck. Put him in the coop, but his son Oops immediately chased Barney back out again, Barney vanished in the darkness, couldn't find him, he stayed out all last night.
. . Oops is a very beautiful bird with shimmering feathers. A very fine Chicken in all ways.
. . BUT yesterday Oops (Barney's 1yo son) decided he didn't want another Rooster in the yard... Beat up Barney badly. .. Oops is twice the size of his father Barney.
. . Barney was a basket case, terrified, and crying, yes, crying. ... panicky with Oops chasing him around. Finally found Barney this morning, hiding behind the shed.. disoriented, confused.. would not go into open yard, tried to escape under fence. I locked Oops in the coop but let the hens out... That made Barney feel comfortable again, they are now back to normal roaming the yard. Oops is still locked in coop.
. . I cannot have both of them in the yard... Barney will fly away for sure. . . Sad, because I really really like Oops, such a very beautiful bird, shimmering bronze feathers. But he has to go. I'm very sad.
.Note: OOPS = When Oops was very young (an egg) I inadvertently put the egg under the wrong mother hen... That became apparent when he got bigger, hence the name = "Oops". His "Real" mother never knew.
Pic a thru g - 160308a 2731 Chicken Portrait Oops.JPG
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. . Oops is a very beautiful bird with shimmering feathers. A very fine Chicken in all ways.
. . BUT yesterday Oops (Barney's 1yo son) decided he didn't want another Rooster in the yard... Beat up Barney badly. .. Oops is twice the size of his father Barney.
. . Barney was a basket case, terrified, and crying, yes, crying. ... panicky with Oops chasing him around. Finally found Barney this morning, hiding behind the shed.. disoriented, confused.. would not go into open yard, tried to escape under fence. I locked Oops in the coop but let the hens out... That made Barney feel comfortable again, they are now back to normal roaming the yard. Oops is still locked in coop.
. . I cannot have both of them in the yard... Barney will fly away for sure. . . Sad, because I really really like Oops, such a very beautiful bird, shimmering bronze feathers. But he has to go. I'm very sad.
.Note: OOPS = When Oops was very young (an egg) I inadvertently put the egg under the wrong mother hen... That became apparent when he got bigger, hence the name = "Oops". His "Real" mother never knew.
Pic a thru g - 160308a 2731 Chicken Portrait Oops.JPG
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20151116
She REALLY wanted a baby. Switched at birth ..
She REALLY wanted a baby.
Oops, Mom is not the real mom, The other mom is.
Switched at birth ...
. Two hens (white, brown) on nests hatching eggs ...
Egg rolls out onto floor ...
I placed the egg back in the nest that it fell out of (brown)..
Wrong ... As the chick grew older it became clear it belonged to Shmoo, the white hen. The father (Barney) is mostly brown so the baby is mostly brown but has feathers like Shmoo's (fuzzy), not like the other hen.
So Sorry Shmoo.
Pics 151108d 2731 Chicken Shmoo baby raised by Sebright.JPG
100809 2731 Shmoo in chair.jpg
150705a 2731 Chicken Sebright baby 4 day old.JPG
151108k 2731 Chicken Shmoo baby raised by Sebright Barney.JPG
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Oops, Mom is not the real mom, The other mom is.
Switched at birth ...
. Two hens (white, brown) on nests hatching eggs ...
Egg rolls out onto floor ...
I placed the egg back in the nest that it fell out of (brown)..
Wrong ... As the chick grew older it became clear it belonged to Shmoo, the white hen. The father (Barney) is mostly brown so the baby is mostly brown but has feathers like Shmoo's (fuzzy), not like the other hen.
So Sorry Shmoo.
Pics 151108d 2731 Chicken Shmoo baby raised by Sebright.JPG
100809 2731 Shmoo in chair.jpg
150705a 2731 Chicken Sebright baby 4 day old.JPG
151108k 2731 Chicken Shmoo baby raised by Sebright Barney.JPG
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20151029
The Universe fits in my backyard
As far as the Chickens know, the backyard IS the universe... and they're perfectly happy anyway.
Pic 140823i 2731 Backyard Chickens Sophia Shmoo Barney Cheekie .JPG
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20141124
141124 Chicken Mini Coop
This very small Coop is modeled after my 10yo larger coop and is somewhat of an experiment although it is a very real usable Chicken coop. I intend to measure it's efficiency and performance thru the winter (NOTE: I did, ... very successful)
It's 4x4, enough for 2 or 3 Chickens but CAN be made in ANY larger size for dozens of Chickens. My existing much larger coop/aviary is plenty large enough for me to walk inside, and the Chickens can fly. Short sleeve shirt is all you need and be warm on a sunny cold winter day.
.. This is NOT the way I would usually build one. This one is built in 3 detachable pieces so I can bring it to my "The Art of Keeping Chicken Classes" in my van. One built to not be portable would have much less material and would look less complicated and it can easily be made to look "cute".
The idea is to gain as much energy from the sun as possible while at the same time make the coop very efficient to maintain with Chickens in it. Even with NO sun the aviary portion is usually 15 degrees warmer (free) than outside while the coop is always above freezing. The angles and proportions are important. The ventilation, fans, sizes, timers, lights, etc are also very important. Many other details are also very important to it's success. It's mouse-proof also. Snow usually slides off of the solar surface, if not, a gentle tap usually causes the snow to slide off.
. . The solar surface area ratio to the cubic feet is much smaller than my other coops so it will likely cost about the same or more in electricity to heat as my MUCH larger coop (maybe $5? per year for the small one?). Other aspects of the coop are the same as my larger coop (Easy to clean, etc).
NOTE - It actually only cost 24 cents to keep this mini coop above freezing for the entire winter.... my large 20 Chicken walk-in coop only costs $5 to stay above freezing.
Most of my Chicken keeping methods and techniques are not apparent from the photos.
. . In winter the entire outside area is covered with inexpensive 8mm clear plastic (shown in the photos) over the 1/2" wire cloth. That retains the solar gain and protects the Chickens from drafts of any kind. In summer, the solar surface is covered with foil backed foam panels to give the chickens the coolest place they can possibly be on hot summer days.
It is almost December ... about 25 degrees outside, but quite warm in the aviary (100 in sun). That excess aviary heat gets drawn into the Coop warming it for the night. In summer the solar surface is covered with a cheap reflective panel making it the coolest place the Chickens can be.
It's 4x4, enough for 2 or 3 Chickens but CAN be made in ANY larger size for dozens of Chickens. My existing much larger coop/aviary is plenty large enough for me to walk inside, and the Chickens can fly. Short sleeve shirt is all you need and be warm on a sunny cold winter day.
.. This is NOT the way I would usually build one. This one is built in 3 detachable pieces so I can bring it to my "The Art of Keeping Chicken Classes" in my van. One built to not be portable would have much less material and would look less complicated and it can easily be made to look "cute".
The idea is to gain as much energy from the sun as possible while at the same time make the coop very efficient to maintain with Chickens in it. Even with NO sun the aviary portion is usually 15 degrees warmer (free) than outside while the coop is always above freezing. The angles and proportions are important. The ventilation, fans, sizes, timers, lights, etc are also very important. Many other details are also very important to it's success. It's mouse-proof also. Snow usually slides off of the solar surface, if not, a gentle tap usually causes the snow to slide off.
. . The solar surface area ratio to the cubic feet is much smaller than my other coops so it will likely cost about the same or more in electricity to heat as my MUCH larger coop (maybe $5? per year for the small one?). Other aspects of the coop are the same as my larger coop (Easy to clean, etc).
NOTE - It actually only cost 24 cents to keep this mini coop above freezing for the entire winter.... my large 20 Chicken walk-in coop only costs $5 to stay above freezing.
Most of my Chicken keeping methods and techniques are not apparent from the photos.
. . In winter the entire outside area is covered with inexpensive 8mm clear plastic (shown in the photos) over the 1/2" wire cloth. That retains the solar gain and protects the Chickens from drafts of any kind. In summer, the solar surface is covered with foil backed foam panels to give the chickens the coolest place they can possibly be on hot summer days.
It is almost December ... about 25 degrees outside, but quite warm in the aviary (100 in sun). That excess aviary heat gets drawn into the Coop warming it for the night. In summer the solar surface is covered with a cheap reflective panel making it the coolest place the Chickens can be.
20060315
Beware of 350 mph Fast Flying Chickens
| Beware of 350 mph Fast Flying Chickens | for everyone |
I worked for a company that tests Jet engines. There was actually a job description for a “Chicken tosser” (into jet engines, not windshields). I found the following on the internet while looking for something else.
Article in a recent issue of "Meat & Poultry" magazine.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies, 300-350 mph.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight. It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.
They borrowed the FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British were surprised and stunned by the damage and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation: "Use a thawed chicken."
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