Posts by wood&feathers

I thought you all might be an appreciative audience for my daughter's Powder Puff Pinecar.. She just had to model it after our fastest chicken, a cubalaya hen named Lightning.   The face is made of a half a hickory nut...

Just a winter snap of a cockerel and pullet previously scalded.  They look nice in the yard , and forage well even in winter here.   

Reread my post guys -  these are birds I am not going to breed, thinking of giving them away to someone who wants to give it a go with the breed. They were all born in July. The cockerel is undersized, but fowlsessed was...

I did a close look and found a few hens showing white or partially white earlobes. Is this an all or nothing affair? They didn't have any white at all before they came into lay!

Here's the cockerel:   Two potential hens : another possibility:

What he means is colored feather - like red smearing the white.   Background - I am in EKy.  Fowlsessed isn't prohibitively far away. I have a white cockerel I don't have space to keep - I need to segregate my breeders,...

Keep a sharp eye on old neighborhoods.  If you see someone is getting new windows, stop and ask if you can pay $10-20 for one of the old ones. Many times they will just give you some.   CL often has salvage ads. Yes those...

Put a box in their favorite corner. Are these young pullets?   If they are laying where you can find them I would be tickled pink.

WTH, GotGame, is that black and white one piebald? What does one call that color in chickens?   I have a question that may belong here. I purchased 2 Tuzo/Black Jap ( ) hens last summer. They have fit in very well with my...

I'll be curious how those Welp chicks posted earlier develop. They looked like they had good carriage and very substantial bone structure.   I would be happy to own RC-Ryan's hen though. I love the wheaten hens.  The one...