I can't believe the poultry forum beat us.

dahlianut - please don't stop posting! You are a very welcomed addition here! You ARE northeast of somewhere, aren't you???? So, you're just one of us.......keep coming back.....and not JUST to boost our numbers! LOL

LOL DonnieBrook. You know what. I grew up in the Toronto area so I can claim NE alumni status. WOW I just luv looking at the trees/leaves on this forum in the fall.

lol

Didn't some comedian do a skit about cereal tasting like twigs and leaves?

Yummy!

No, I don't think it was "Yummy". Perhaps it was Cosby, a very long time ago.

hee hee

Went to HS one summer in Peru and had guinea pig fricassee. Two things stick in my mind: Going into the kitchen and seeing the cook pick what I thought were hamsters out of a cardboard box and clubbing them. Having the fricassee passed to me and discovering I had picked out a male guinea pig.

Don't recall the taste at all.

Erp! Sorry DP.

Welcome dahlianut and it seems to me you should stay right here.....you fit right in!! lol

I'm sorry the fowl beat us again....im as guilty as the rest for not posting. Lots of fall clean up to do, the colors are distracting and this has been my biggest distraction.....can you blame me???

What a cutie! David - ugh, what an experience.

We in the poultry forum have a lot of hatching chicks going on right now, with much excitement. We can't stop ourselves from blathering on about it. Plus we have folks with very unfortunate disease problems in their flocks. It has been a flurry of activity lately. Don't worry - it's probably just temporary, and then you will get your leadership position back! :-) Unless you want to come on over to the poultry forum! LOL!

heehee!
Actually I do read some of your threads!

Ah HAH! A lurker! We knew we had some.... ;-)

It's usually the threads about sick chickens - I feel bad, then want too see when things get better!

Thanks for watching that - we love our chickens and are always worried when they are sick. A bunch of us have been dealing with fowl pox lately, which is very bad. Fortunately I am not one of them. I am dealing with hatches instead, which are quite fun. Our poultry-themed Christmas swap thread has become a bit chaotic. People running about with echidnas (we have an Aussie member) and platypuses and Japanese hedge hog clippers. It's very dangerous. Probably better not to go there!

I'm sorry those chickens are ill, makes me sad too.....what is fowl pox? I conjured up an image in my head of a chicken with chichen-pox, which im sure is totally off base so I thought i'd ask.

I DO know what hatchings are and they ARE FUN!! Everytime I watch them hatch I feel the need to bring some home. lol

Chicks are cute but I would go for 2 peacocks first. Male and female for sure.

Welcome, CMoxen! I have lurked on your forum too. I love some of the thread titles. Wish I could have some of your fresh eggs! The forum seems to be dominated by chicken stuff.

Yeah, it's the titles that bring me in from the latest posts, egg production after bronchitis, just makes you curious.

Okay, since it is confession time, I have been know to lurk with the "fowl" too.

So glad to have you jump in here CMoxen.
That pox does seem to be a major problem. So sorry. I just remember how nasty some of the birds could get. I hated getting pecked when I had to get the eggs as a kid.

Oh, Celeste, she is an adorable distraction. How old is she? I have one just like her around the corner who will be 1 next month. She and her brothers keep me from the garden at times too.

Jan thats DGD Orryanna, she'll be 1 in Dec.
Her sister Isabella will arrive into this world on or around Jan. 23, 2009 lol

ahhh what a cutieputootie pixie! That's not a distraction. That's a seedling! Guilty, I too lurk with the chickens. I just luv those little chicks with wild hair. Very cool.

All these lurkers coming out of the woodwork - gives me the warm fuzzies!

To answer the question about fowl pox - it's a virus. It's sort of like chicken pox in people but it is not the same virus. There are two forms of it - wet and dry. Dry is not so bad. In that form, chickens get little lumps (like people chicken pox) on their comb or skin, and you treat it with iodine, and more often than not they recover. But it is quite infectious, so it can run through a flock quite quickly. And the bigger the flock, the harder to treat everybody. If they get it next to their eyes it can move into their eyes and then it's very bad.

The wet pox is very bad. It forms inside their mouth and can make them choke by cutting off their air. It's messy and painful and can be fatal quite often.

There is a vaccination for it, but it's hard to vaccinate large flocks.

And yes, the forum is a bit dominated by chickens, but also has a strong goat showing. I have about 80 chickens and 17 goats, although I think we are about to lose a goat. :-( She is paralyzed in her back legs.

My veggie garden is just about finished and it's time for me to put some chickens in there to clean up the mess - they love the fallen tomatoes, old zucchini that I missed, etc. They also fertilize it very nicely. :-)

There's a member in the RM group has free ranging chickens for just that reason CMoxon. They are his garden helpers. Also fresh eggs of course. I'd kill for fresh eggs. Crappola, I can't have chickens. Its illegal within city limits.

Celeste, I just want to bite her cheeks!!!!

fertilize it very nicely - If they go crazy over the tomatoes and zuch's do they rototill it also.

:-)

Sure, don't they do that chicken scritching thing schikenlady ^_^ LMBO cuz I know nothing about chickens.

Yes, they rototill also. I spread a bunch of straw around and they rototill it into the soil with all their scratching and dustbathing. Chickens, for those of you who don't know, like to take dust baths. It helps them naturally prevent things like mites and lice and fleas. They find an area that suits them, they sort of make a little depression in the dirt, and then they flap around and throw dirt on themselves and then shake it all off. So that helps with the fertilizer distribution and rototilling aspects of chickens in the garden.

Too bad about the Calgary rules Dahlianut. Calgary is usually so progressive - I would have thought they would be into the urban chicken movement.

Thanks CMoxon. There sure are some weird laws here. Like no shinny/road hockey and no free ranging cats. But there are some very cool ones too like waterwise gardening sponsorship and community gardens sponsorship.

Jen I love the cheeks too!

CMoxen, thank you for explaining pox to me, my image wasn't to far off after all! BTW saw your hatchlings....that Rooster is a cutie!!

Hey what about: if you can't beat the chicken folks, bring the chicken chat to the NE ^_^

I like your thinking dahlianut.

(irrelevant thread "post boosting" tangent warning)

For years I had a pet goose when I was a youngin' named Esssssssssmirelda, whom I rescued from the flea market one November, keeping it from being a certain festive meal's main course!

She laid the largest eggs which were great for baking, but not so much for scrambling.

willieB, when baking, do you have to adjust the rest of the recipe if the egg is eggsceptionally large? I've often wondered about that, cuz you can get different sized eggs at the store.

somebody popped in over at the poultry & livestock forum and said you guys were desperate for something about numbers or posts or something... can I help or anything??

Just kidding.. an original nor-easter here, so I guess I can legally stop in..

Glad to see so many lurkers.. you really should speak up and say hi.. no-one is a stranger on the farm!

Oh.. most of us garden too.. Hosta is my forte... silkie chickens hate the taste of hosta.. but LOVE to eat slugs!!!

I did .... The eggs are rather yolk-ie, which made for sort of tough scrambled eggs.

I would use one goose egg to equal about 3-4 chicken eggs.

They were great in cookies, brownies, etc. Heavy things.

For cakes, etc. unless you remove (some or most of) the yolk, they could be rather "heavy" cakes. Not Angel Food Cake light-like. Not sure how best to describe that.

So Moxon what you doing over here?
I didn't know there was a race going on with the post.............
Well better get back where i belong nice to see the one's here who visit us.....

I'm Harmony from the poultry livestock forum and yall stop by more often we like company......

This is way too much fun ^_^ All the chicken folks are going to move to the NE forum now.

That's a good question Jan23. I always thought receipes were based on Grade A large size eggs but what do I know (says the cook who makes up receipes as she goes).

Hey Fran whatya doing way over here?