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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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Red Pile Chickens

I'll have to see if I can get a couple pics of my Aracaunas for you....yeah, the "ears" aren't huge, but definitely noticeable.

I used to breed for certain characteristics and such, had a fancy setup to keep them divided into breeding groups at least during the initial part of laying season when I was going to be incubating and selling...but now, the birds I have left just run around the farm where I can watch and enjoy them, and they just do their thing, lol. They still lay either in the chicken pen inside the building, or in one of a couple spots in the barn.
 
It laid another small blue/green egg today. I find it odd though that it's eggs are smaller than the barred-rock because the barred-rock is smaller.

I also wanted to know if it is safe to introduce new hens to a group of hens and one rooster?

By the way, I appreciate all of the time and patients!
 
Introducing new hens should be no problem, in fact the other hens will probably be relieved at someone else getting some of the rooster's "attention", lol.

Maybe the hen you have that is laying the colored eggs is actually an Aracauna cross? Some crosses will still retain some of the "ear" feathering....does she have a pea comb? (Sorry, I think I mistakenly called it a rose comb earlier) The pea comb doesn't tend to stay nearly as small in crosses. I just wonder, because every Aracauna I have had produced very nice, large eggs.

And no problem....it's fun to find someone with an interest in chickens beyond the fried kind. ;)
 
Don't get me wrong I am very interested in the fried variety! I just wouldn't like to see any of mine converted to that. haha

I looked at some pictures and I'm still not exactly sure of what a pea comb is. From the pictures I am guessing this is somewhat of a small, flattened comb?
 
Alright, if I am right, my barred-rock has a rose comb and my chicken in question has a pea comb. The barred-rock has a comb that sticks up a bit, almost enough to sag to the side, while the one in question has one that barely protrudes.
 
A comb that stands up enough to fall over is usually just called a "single comb". A pea comb is a very small, almost roundish comb that tapers just slightly toward the beak. A rose comb is similar to a pea comb, but larger, and tapering in the opposite direction as the pea comb. Neither the pea comb or rose comb have the protrusions that stick up beyond the base of the comb, like you would see on a leghorn.

I wish I could just get out my crayons and draw you a picture, it would be easier than trying to explain it, lol.
 
Alright, once again another question. I don't have any funds anymore, so I've decided to make do with the chickens I have. Right now I have both my araucana and my barred-rock with my redpyle rooster and they have 8 eggs laid. I was wondering if I switched them to my orange rooster if he would start breeding immediately so they would keep filling the nest with fertile eggs or if this would throw the laying off? Thanks a bunch!

The hens would be staying in the same pen with roosters switched out.
 
I'm sure he would start breeding right away if moved, and if you don't move the hens, their laying shouldn't be thrown off, I wouldn't think.
 
Well, it seems I was too late for that, my araucana is on the nest today, unless she was laying. She seemed ill, but I guess I'll know for sure when I get home from school. Will she start laying right after the eggs hatch? If so and she is setting already I guess I will just wait until next month and switch out the roosters, let each rooster have a full nest of eggs. If she isn't setting I'll switch them out this evening.
 
I just made an interesteing find. I didn't know they would do this, but both hens are on the same nest right now setting. You ever have 'em do that? haha.
 
Now I'm just confused.. the rooster is setting on the nest with the two hens now...

Maybe this is an effort to keep himself warm?
 
Yep, I have hens who share nests all of the time. I've had hen chickens try to share nests with hen ducks (which causes problems because duck eggs take a week longer to hatch than chicken eggs)....and I've had a hen chicken actually hatch baby ducks. I used to have one hen that was a very poor layer herself, but would seem to wait until another hen had a full nest, and then boot her off and sit on it, lol....but she was an excellent Mom, so I kept her around. She could keep a group of 15 chicks all together and raise them. My hen turkeys always share a common nest.

But the rooster on the nest, well.....that's just weird. LOL.
 
Ha, thats pretty interesting. I wouldn't have thought a chicken would hatch a ducks eggs. Yeah, the rooster wasn't on there this morning when I checked. I had bad timing on letting them hatch a nest, it is so cold here right now. I thought the cold weather was over, but it came back strong this weekend.
 
You'd be amazed at how well those hens keep the eggs warm....if they are sitting on the nest, it has to get mighty cold to hurt the eggs. If my hens can hatch out spring babies here in Iowa, you should have no problem in NC.

Somewhere, I have some pics of one of my hens with baby ducks under her....I didn't worry about her raising ducklings, but a Mama duck raising chicks is another story....chicks don't take well to swimming, lol.
 
Chris Steele said:
Haha, have you had a duck try to take chicks swimming?
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Yep, had it happen once, it didn't turn out well for the chicks. They don't know any better, and the poor mama duck was utterly confused....my daughter came running in the house after trying to rescue the chicks and getting attacked by the mama duck, lol. I think we ended up saving 3 of the chicks, and raising them under a brooder.
 
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