Woodland Cottage Farm and Studio

08/28/2024

More Perfect Union has found a tech-initiated price-fixing scam in the meat industry. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Your Support i...

08/11/2024

Republican Judge just sentenced 22 years for most violent Jan 6th insurrectionist..

In a stinging response to Trump’s claim that nothing bad happened on Jan6 and it was just a walk in the proverbial the park, Republican Federal Judge Royce L...

08/10/2024

ppressure and release...

08/05/2024

Full story and video here: https://permaculturepress.com/2024/08/02/michigan-milk-dump/

07/16/2024

Amazing salvage.

06/19/2024

Strange Behaviors of Narcissistic Abuse Survivors Welcome to a compelling exploration of the unique and often misunderstood world of narcissistic abuse survi...

06/17/2024

02/13/2024

02/13/2024

We sit down with one of our favorite guests, Lisa Steele over at Fresh Eggs Daily with Lisa Steele! We talked everything Fermented Food and Deep Litter! Don’t miss all the fun! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1409773/14477705-episode-168-runner-ducks-fermented-feed-and-deep-litter-method-with-lisa-steele-heart-shaped-mini-chocolate-cakes-valentine-s-day-gifts-for-chicken-lovers

01/14/2024

Aid to Ukraine does not take money out of our funding for anything in the US. How is this you ask? We have equipment that is outdated and ready for decommissioning This is the equipment in question we are going to send. This equipment is then evaluated for money amount, like a garage sale. The Congress then Approves the "amount" we send. So let:"s send it to help Ukraine defend itself. It literally cost us nothing.

01/02/2024

Accepting reservations for Icelandic day old chicks 2024, March to end of June.

12/01/2023

Rent The Chicken is now accepting reservations for 2024.
Test drive a chicken today.
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08/31/2023

The real life version of Snoopy 😊

07/29/2023

🪶So, someone translated ‘Jessie’s Girl’ as if written by Shakespeare... 😄

07/14/2023

Your Friday Earwig.
Your welcome.

07/09/2023

Wicked!

Looks good to us 👊🦌

07/09/2023

"Came home to this today. I only own the dog."

06/05/2023

Gannder gosling: His body decided last night to work on the flight feathers. Look at that blood flow.

04/14/2023

My partner in CPG's farm Crazy Flocking Crazy Farm

02/16/2023

Tribal expertise and indigenous knowledge can now be utilized to help manage the area's wildlife and habitat, said Secretary Haaland.

02/16/2023

This is a wonderful thing. The beekeeper forgot to put the frame in his hive, so the bees just freestyled, building a structure that would best handle temperature and ventilation. Organic form. [via ]

Returntonow.net is amazing!

12/06/2022

The new chicks for the next generation.
Icelandic chicken chicks.

12/06/2022

A few seconds of meal time with Icelandic chickens.

03/01/2022

CCE Flock Talks Presents:
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in New York
Monday, March 7, 7pm – 8pm
Join Cornell Cooperative Extension and Dr. Chad Wall, Field Veterinarian for NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, to learn about the current outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, the threat it poses to NYS poultry production, and how we can protect our birds and stop the spread! This event is for Small Production Flocks as well as Backyard/Hobby Flocks.
Topics covered include symptoms of the disease, keeping your poultry safe, and what will happen if the disease is found in your flock or a flock near you. The update will leave ample time for Q&A - bring your questions!
Pre-registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/NYS-HPAI. This meeting will be held over Zoom with a call-in option available. There is no cost for this event.
The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza response in NYS is being addressed by Cornell Cooperative Extension’s NY Extension Disaster Education Network (NY-EDEN).

12/25/2021

Narrangansette turkey.

12/12/2021

Anatomy of a goose.

12/12/2021

Genetics of combs in comments
GENETICS OF SHANK/FOOT COLOR
The visible color in the shanks/feet of chickens is the result of a combination of colors in the upper skin and deeper skin. Shank/foot color basically is controlled by three genes, one of which is s*x-linked and located on the Z s*x chromosome. Table 1 shows the shank/foot colors that result from the major gene combinations. Remember that each chicken has two copies of each gene. The table is only a guide because other genes affect shank/foot color as well. For example, the s*x-linked barring gene, B, is located on the Z s*x chromosome and is a strong inhibitor of melanin pigment in the skin. Barred Plymouth Rock chickens would not have light shanks if not for the fact that they have the s*x-linked barring gene. Female Barred Plymouth Rocks (having the s*x chromosomes ZW) tend to have darker shanks than the males (having the s*x chromosomes ZZ) due to the dose effect of the barring gene in the male.

12/12/2021

GENETICS OF FEATHER COLOR
To understand the genetics of feather color, it is necessary to understand how the different colors of poultry are achieved. In poultry, there are secondary and primary color patterns. A secondary pattern is a color pattern that appears on individual feathers. Single and double lacing, mottled, and so on are secondary patterns. Primary patterns are color patterns that involve the entire body of the chicken. An example is the Silver Columbian pattern. The Silver Columbian is a white chicken with some black in the neck, wing, and tail areas. Because the pattern does not manifest on individual feathers, it is referred to as a primary pattern.

To breed a chicken having a particular color scheme, one begins with the background color, which is controlled by the E-locus gene. The other color and (secondary) pattern genes essentially modify this background. Several different genes interact to determine feather colors and patterns. Considering white and black to be colors, there are three basic feather colors: black, white, and red (gold). (Technically, white and black are not colors: white is actually the result of all the colors combined, and black is the lack of reflection of light in the visible range.) The colors of chicken feathers are achieved by diluting and enhancing or masking black and red. For example, Rhode Island Reds have the gold gene with the dominant mahogany (red-enhancing) gene. A blue feathering is produced when a black-feathered chicken has the blue gene, which dilutes the black color. Two copies of the blue gene result in the splash effect. A white chicken can be achieved in a number of ways by inhibiting black and red pigmentation with combinations of genes (such as dominant white, recessive white, silver, Columbian, and Cuckoo barring).

Some perceived feather colors actually are due to the structure of the feather rather than to pigmentation. That is, the purple and beetle green sheens seen in some poultry are due to the way the feather structures reflect light rather than to the presence of pigments.

12/12/2021

Comb type in chickens basically is controlled by two different genes on two different chromosomes. One is the rose comb gene (represented by the letter R), and the other is the pea comb gene (represented by the letter P). A presence of the gene is represented by the uppercase letter; an absence of the gene is represented by the lowercase letter. Both the rose comb gene and the pea comb gene can express themselves in the heterozygous state. That is, only one copy of the rose comb gene or the pea comb gene is sufficient for that type of comb to occur. Therefore, both genes can be thought of as dominant genes.

When at least one copy of the rose comb gene is present and the pea comb gene is absent, the result is a rose comb. In other words, a chicken with a rose comb has one of two possible gene combinations: RRpp or Rrpp.
When at least one copy of the pea comb gene is present and the rose comb gene is absent, the result is a pea comb. A chicken with a pea comb has one of two possible gene combinations:
rrPP or rrPp.
When at least one copy of each gene is present, the result is a walnut comb. A chicken with a walnut comb has one of four possible gene combinations:
RRPP, RrPP, RRPp, or RrPp.
When both genes are absent, the result is a single comb. A chicken with a single comb has the only possible gene combination:
rrpp.
To further understand the genetics of comb type, consider the results of breeding certain chickens. For example, what happens if a chicken that breeds true for pea comb (that is, a chicken that has the gene combination rrPP) is crossed with a chicken that breeds true for rose comb (that is, a chicken that has the gene combination RRpp)? Considering that each parent contributes to the offspring one each of the two genes that control comb type, the only possible gene pair that the parent that breeds true for rose comb can donate is Rp. Similarly, the only possible gene pair that the

10/23/2021

Shamelessly swiped from elsewhere on FB:
A unique Irish culinary invention ,is buttered eggs, a unique and tasty way to preserve eggs.
Invented in time immemorial , probably due to the proliferation of butter on the island, the Irish developed this way to preserve eggs. It became so popular that exportation of buttered eggs to England numbered in the tens of thousands of dozens every year during the English colonial times .
Because the shell is porous, it absorbs the butter to form a more protective seal. Curious, I took one home. Soft-boiled, it tasted fresh from the hen, the yolk the color of sunshine, the white carrying with it a whiff of cream. Today buttered eggs are a delicacy, largely vanished from Irish farmyards and pantries. You can't butter eggs by machine, as it’s an intimate practice involving the hand . Every one needs to be done by hand. Farmers' wives used to say it was a task most difficult to execute in winter, when the butter was harder and their hands were colder. So perhaps in addition to the egg and the butter, what I taste is the memory of an Irish woman whose palm coaxed butter lovingly all the way around a fragile shell, hoping to preserve it for as long as she could.
That might seem counterintuitive. Why waste butter on the outside of an egg? But clever Irish farmers had hit on buttering eggs as a way to preserve them during winters, when hens produce less. Taking freshly-laid, still-warm eggs, farm families rolled them in their buttery palms. The butter helped solidify the hot, brittle shells, sealing off the yolky contents from the outside air.
Buttered eggs take on a shiny gleam. And, as an added bonus, the taste of butter permeates the egg, making it even richer when cracked opened and cooked. Eggs preserved this way keep for up to six months in a cool place and I have had them last even longer . It’s not surprising that buttered eggs were a Cork specialty, seeing as it’s also home to the Cork Butter Museum, a tribute to the region’s status as a butter-producing powerhouse.
They can be found at markets in Ireland and I make them regularly as a homestead speciality. If you keep chickens or know someone local who does , then you can too !