#breeding flock

[theramseyloft]

Blot 1/9/25 New Year Update Chinese Owl x BR/KT Blue T Pattern Sired by Wukong out of Eggbert 11/28/21 Bred by The Ramsey Loft PMV Booster administered 6/20/24 Paratyphoid Booster administered 6/20/24 Stud Cock

Assets: Family history of excellent parenting. Small, light build. Sweet, curious temperament.

[bluestempigeons]

They really love being photogenic in the dirtiest spots

[remyfire]

Staring at some of my favorite Hawkeye ships (BJ, Trapper, Henry, Sidney, Father Mulcahy) and starting to wonder if Hawk has a DILF kink

[crazy-sheep-lady]

Someday I want a fireplace to hang a giant oil painting portrait of Hawkeye over

[homeofhousechickens]

Laying on my bed kicking my feet thinking about the hatching eggs I'm getting

[superfluffychickens]

Miss Maya grew up to be an Absolute Unit of a hen, she dwarfs all her sisters and she’s even bigger than Pluto! If I didn’t trust the breeder I got her from, I’d say a Jersey Giant egg got mixed in to my clutch somehow! But I don’t really care about that stuff anyway, I think she’s lovely and perfect just the way she is! I love her soft and shiny feathers and her big gentle eyes!

[nordfjording]

Mother has sworn she will never again own a lohmann. Rejoice!

[crowempress]

I need to own ducks or chickens or some sort of farm bird so badly it's not even funny

[ratatatastic]

unfortunately this is what he looks like to me when he locks tf in for a presser question and has to :[ to signal he is not going to say anything more and thats all your getting it is a visual marker that he has clocked out locked up and is done for the night

[plushie-lovey]

Everyone say hi to my fluffy rooster boy, Russ

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I can’t stop thinking about this. Like why would you even think about rudely interrupting someone who’s with their partner and friends to ask them incredibly invasive questions? Imagine if you were at dinner and a complete stranger just walked up and bombarded you with intensely personal questions.

[theramseyloft]

Teasel 1/8/25 New Year Update RH/PT/ODC/STRH x COF/RH/FB/GH Pied Indigo T-Pattern Sired by Nettle out of Suki 11/22/21 Bred by The Ramsey Loft Stud Cock

Assets: Structure is excellent, very close to my ideal. Family history of sweet temper and excellent parenting instinct. Keenly intelligent. Teasel is naturally flighty, but he's learning from the rest of the flock to be comfortable with me despite that. More minor asset is his Indigo coloring, required to make Andalusion.

Faults: Unbelievable dust monster! Flighty.

[sassyhazelowl]

I spent the morning getting organized on the birds - the financial tab is rough and needs to be re-done, maybe monthly tabs, but I really like having a reservation list because it gives me a good idea how many and when to hatch for local stuff. Also had to buy another back up incubator b/c my old one is being funky. Should also alleviate the synchronized hatch problems - ie. one species hatches before the other while they're in lockdown together.

[angrybatart]

This fowl-tempered bird has a low probability rate of appearing, with a nasty peck. And a soft spot for bread. 🍞

Her battle theme would probably either be:

Or:

Actually more fitting. My sibling agrees.

[pyrriax]

Ah, so tell me Sugar or Salt for better preservation?

salt! especially when you're working with dry preservation, which is what it's being used for typically. sugar will attract bugs and other things which will eat away at the specimen, along with not drawing out the moisture nearly as well / at all.

but if you're working with things like rabbits feet, which are intended to be dry at the end, you'd think that the process involves just drying them, right? but you'd be wrong! the process (at least that i've followed in the past) involves soaking them twice, once in a soapy water mixture to remove parasites, then in a high concentrate isopropyl alcohol, rinsing thoroughly between steps.

processes vary depending on what you're working on. another example is that for the rooster i'm planning to take the wings from, i'm going to need to both remove his wings, and go through the process of removing the flesh while also keeping the skin in tact around his bones, since i'm going to be effectively stuffing the void with cotton, so that everything lays properly when its all dried. those are actually going to be dried in salt, which is primarily because he was a domestic animal and i know where he'd been.

[milfjagger]

hogget is better than lamb but no one wants to talk about it