NH Homesteader's journal

[sumi]

 

[NH Homesteader]

I have to get a picture of my dark cornishes... They are the strangest birds I've ever had. I call them the velociraptors. They make the most bizarre noises, and sometimes catch you off guard with them. They were hiding from something this morning and one of them was making this weird, kind of growling noise? They're very strange, and very reactive to anything new and different. Especially the roo. @tortoise do you have strange cornishes too??

 

[tortoise]

We have one dark cornish. He's the dominant one and a special type of evil. He is actually better around people since we kept him in a rabbit cage for a few months. He doesn't threaten me unless he finds a way back into the hen pen. He's definitely reactive! Yeah, they are wierd birds.

I'm shopping for a different breed maybe. A better meatie than a layer. Still want layers, we'll just keep more of them if the lay less frequently.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Mine is reactive with birds, but not people (yet anyway). He's still young though. My husband loves these birds. I think they're weird! He like has this aura about him- he's in a pen but all the free range birds drift that direction and start fights with him through the fence. The cornishes live alone until breeding season at my house!

I like my Dominiques. My rooster is in a fence so I don't even care that he's around anymore. And the hens are amazing. Kinda skinny for the table though, based off the few we've butchered thus far.

 

[tortoise]

Cornish make a really nice carcass. Too bad they're so weird!

 

[NH Homesteader]

I'm afraid I may be stuck with them. My husband really does enjoy them. He's weird, all the weird animals are his. He even picked out my crazy goat. All the calm ones were my doing, I even picked out his turkeys and they've turned out to be the friendliest turkeys we've had! Hmm... I know who's in charge of finding future animals!

 

[NH Homesteader]

48 and rainy right now. Brrr! Frost tonight, so I'll go pick the measly amount of tomatoes I have and see if they'll ripen inside. Poor tomato luck this year.

Gave away 3 chickens yesterday. 2 big NH's and the random cochin we got as the "extra" bird from our order this year. Our friend is into big birds, and DH is too busy to process right now. That leaves 4 cull hens, 5-8 cockerels (some too young still to tell), and the 20 meat birds to process before the ground freezes (8 of which go to my parents). Then we'll be down to 15-18 chickens for winter.

DH thinks we might be able to get the ground ready for the barn without a tractor, so hope to plan that out ASAP. Also have a pig to butcher somewhere in there...eeeeek!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Geeze! Life on the farm - there's always something to do!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Not to mention needing to get 100+ bales of hay, finish the bathroom, fix my Jeep, redo the floor in the bedroom and all the normal winter prep stuff, oh and figure out where the turkeys are going for winter... Really, I'm not stressed out at all...

The good part is, for the first time since DH and I have been together, he's overwhelmed and busy enough to tell people he doesn't have time for any more! He has a habit of taking on too much.... Well he's reached his limit finally!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Good that he recognizes that! Helping folks is great - but - ya gotta take care of your own homestead!