Another wrinkle in the puzzle! The white "leghorn" eggs (remember these were unlabeled!) Have fuzzy legs! So that means daddy was likely cochin or marans!
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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I love her wattles and comb
Well don’t worry about dirt, Laverne was covered in manure last night feo digging in the manure pile. She also tore her dressing off her toe again.
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Dangit LaverneI love her wattles and comb
Well don’t worry about dirt, Laverne was covered in manure last night feo digging in the manure pile. She also tore her dressing off her toe again.
She must be feeling pretty good.
Imagine a Cochin cross with Leghorn. What a perfect combo for a chicken. I’m imagining my Brown Leghorns with feathers on their feet!
When I opened the box last night I was greeted with this.
I sat there stunned and the tears started to flow. Those 4 pictures right there are some of my favorites of my boy. They captured who he was. He was a little chicken wearing a gorilla suit which earned him his nickname "Monkeyman". He was a devoted father to chicks who were not even his own. He always thought that the momma's abandoned them too early even if they were half grown when she left them. If chicks were hatching under a broody he knew and was right there in front of the nest hoping for that first look and being so supportive to the hens. He was so handsome and he knew it. Finally the headshot of him, he was kind. You could see it in his eyes. He was the one I trusted to let anyone hold no matter the age. He always immediately settled even for very young children. He was my shadow, my tv and nap buddy. He brought so much joy to grandma in her final 2 years with us.
I have been blessed over my life to have had many good roosters. They have all been special in their own ways. If I live to be 100 and have chickens until my dying day, there will never be another rooster who holds my heart the way Branch did and does. They can come very close, but Branch was my heart and there will never be another like him.
I sat there stunned and the tears started to flow. Those 4 pictures right there are some of my favorites of my boy. They captured who he was. He was a little chicken wearing a gorilla suit which earned him his nickname "Monkeyman". He was a devoted father to chicks who were not even his own. He always thought that the momma's abandoned them too early even if they were half grown when she left them. If chicks were hatching under a broody he knew and was right there in front of the nest hoping for that first look and being so supportive to the hens. He was so handsome and he knew it. Finally the headshot of him, he was kind. You could see it in his eyes. He was the one I trusted to let anyone hold no matter the age. He always immediately settled even for very young children. He was my shadow, my tv and nap buddy. He brought so much joy to grandma in her final 2 years with us.
I have been blessed over my life to have had many good roosters. They have all been special in their own ways. If I live to be 100 and have chickens until my dying day, there will never be another rooster who holds my heart the way Branch did and does. They can come very close, but Branch was my heart and there will never be another like him.
I almost cook in them exclusively. I have 3 sizes, so works for many things.
tax. This is Lucy. RIP She was my all time favorite hen. Great personality, friendly and gave me chicks! She was in my original flock 10 years ago.
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Seems like it might be difficult to put it on an injured chicken foot though.
I could not find any such data or report on grass fed poultry having a resistance to the virus in any UK studies (or Canada by extension).
Having said that, any animal (or human as we too are mammals), that is exposed to the natural environment will have an immune system which has been exposed to and stressed by any number of pathogens.
But the problem is if you are not exposed to a pathogen you can’t possible build up an immunity to it. Think North American aboriginal people and small pox - they were almost decimated by this disease they had never been exposed to.
This would also happen to any animal that is exposed to something they have not been exposed to. The die off could be extreme depending on what type of virus, what systems it affects, and how virulent it is.
It’s a catch 22 with AI, wild birds live with it and have done so for likely a millennia, gradually building up a resistance; domestic birds have not. So they are particularly prone to die off. Which is why it has an effective morbidity rate of 100%. And the survivors are usually physically affected so that they are not likely to survive long.
It’s pretty hard to build up stock that is resistant when you have a very small number to work with and those that are surviving are damaged, and likely would not survive long enough, or be able to, produce offspring that are in anyway resistant.
The best way to deal with this could possibly be with vaccinations. But there are detractors to that also. There are no easy answers to this, and there will be absolutely no consensus on how to deal with it, due to the ‘human nature’ having differing points of view on things.
The best answer I can give is to keep your own chooks if you can, or find a source for your eggs from a small flock holder.
It was an interesting rabbit hole to wander down
Crayola 16 was always included for kids as Christmas presents. What kid doesn't love a box of brand new pointy crayons
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