Sufficient Self members with Poultry!

[Dreamz]

@CrealCritter I want some sugar babies,lol

 

[Hinotori]

After supper last night I grabbed a sugar baby water melon that I picked out of the garden. I cut it open and the seed cavity looked like pink cotton candy. It scraped out easy with a large spoon. What was let was fully ripe watermelon. I mean it was sweet all the way down to the rine. After we were done, I gave what was left from my wife's 1/2 and my 1/2 to the chickens. This is what I found this morning when I fed them I guess even the rine was good to chickens because all that's left is the skins I saved the seeds out of that sugar baby. It was kind of unique and really sweet. My wife said plant that again next year

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My ameraucana and EEs will kill you for watermelon. Some of they fly up to try and get the first bite before I can even put it down.

 

[CrealCritter]

@CrealCritter I want some sugar babies,lol

I would like a whole row of those. The seed cavity was in the center and the melon itself was really sweet. We just finished another sugar baby, it was not near as sweet and had it's seed cavity along the outside edge like the others we've eat. As we eat our way through this year's sugar baby melons. I'll be saving seeds out of the ones that are unique and sweet like the one I described, to plant next year.

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[Trying2keepitReal]

Are these two girls or boys? 5 weeks, may be a touch early. Hackles are rounded and they still have a little baby fluff left on their bodies. One has a little pink on wattles (#1), the other not any color. I can't ever tell with pea combs, give me a single comb any day! #1 has yellow legs and #4 has grey eggs. Barnyard mixes both hatched from mint green eggs.

 

[farmerjan]

#1 is a toss up ??? but I think #4 is a cockeral... if they are 5 weeks and the pea comb is that developed then I would hazard a guess at male....

 

[CrealCritter]

#2 almost looks like juvenile robin, pretty.

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[CrealCritter]

Little "egg-speriment" will chickens like leftover sugar baby watermelon or rotten end butternut squash better? Or will both be devoured come morning? Butternut is raw so might be a little to hard for them. Either way, at least they are eating good.

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[Trying2keepitReal]

#2 almost looks like juvenile robin.

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It does!!! I promise it isn't, chicken through and through

 

[CrealCritter]

It does!!! I promise it isn't, chicken through and through

Yeah I know, but she's still a pretty bird. You are the only person I've known to have a chicken look like a robin. That's something

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[CrealCritter]

Just an observation... I thought BO were a big chicken. JG must not be a marketing gimmick. They are the same age. It's time to move them to the chicken yard so the can eat bugs, be in the sunshine and scratch in the dirt.

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