Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Good day and a Happy New Year eh!

Well a good day and a happy season to you all! May the new year bring good cheer! (not exactly poetic but my mind is blank with good things to say lol)

Well gidday eh!

Wow - reading these last stories - I had a mess this year. The latest - I was starting to make dinner and pulled a container of meatballs from the fridge, then Carla called for a hand with something. I come back and the container is on the floor and the devil and his minions were licking the floor. ...

that's priceless.

Most people get birds from a hatchery. Hatchery birds are bred to lay eggs; and "purebred" of any breed may be crossbred with something more productive to get egg numbers up. Thus you get birds where feathers might look right but body shape is way off. Hatcheries don't care for other characteristics...

I've been in and out of a lot of breeds. Given our winters, I wanted a rose or pea comb bird. I had dark cornish, great birds, and given their size and muscle they could go feral and fly pretty good. good mothers, and reasonable layers - but the feed bill was unreal. My last foray was legbars - and ...

8BB12C97-C2F3-4638-A67A-3CE51EA3EC87.jpeg PP! I'm happy to see you have found a new path! It has been a painful time of change here as well. Our big dog Duchess (Doberman mix) died of heart attack (or was it heatstroke?) when out on a run this spring. That was the icing on a cake of two years of ch...

Good day from the Ottawa Valley eh! This shot from a few weeks ago is a fav of mine.

That's awesome!