Amy, you are right.....she is indeed nice and wide across the back. Just not photogenic. Every time I open that brooder shed, she comes running over to seee what's going on. Crazy thing.
You are also getting 2 out of the bottom brooder. Didn't get good pix of them. 4 girls in that brooder...
Hey Amy, I finally got pix of one of the girls you are getting from me in Newnan.
Great short back. Overmarked. Beautiful head. Nice width across back and chest. You will like her....she is from you originally! LOL
Anyone who is going to Newnan, I am selling off my mottled cochin flock. Show and Breeder quality birds for sale. Starting at $5 (for young cockerels) up to $150 for the best quad. Blue mottled pair, 1 black cockerel, the rest are black mottled pullets/hens. The 10 growout chicks (Cowboy's kids)...
My parents are out here for Christmas. We do it at my sister's house. I will be over there later today and tomorrow. Driving to Cherokee on Tuesday to pick up about 400lbs of rabbit feed (blue seal, not sold where I live) and a rabbit I dropped off to be bred the day I was at your place. Also...
The over mottled girl I kept is laying again, so I bet the overmottled girl I gave you is laying. I have gotten a bunch of eggs from the cochin pen lately, but dont have any broodies or incubators running, so they are just sitting here. I need to start up the incubator one of these days...
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I'll be in Cherokee, NC on Tuesday.......but that's the closest I will be for a while!
P.S. I need to get pix of that blue mottled girl I got from you last year. She is finishing up her molt and although way overmottled (as expected) she is darn tootin GORGEOUS.
I hope that's a good rotten! His momma went to her new home the weekend prior to you getting him.....she is pretty rotten too. So glad they both got good homes
I was looking at my mottleds last night and still don't know whether I kept the better hen or not. She is really wide across her back, very heavily mottled.....just bigger and slightly longer. Better leg color. Both had all toes.
Probably was a toss up.....maybe in Spring we can compare again! Lol
Shoot I need someone to rearrange my "bunny barn". That will be part of the project this weekend. Need to finish hanging cages, gutters and poop trays, etc......and clean out all the extra JUNK that is all over.
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Put the hen with Rascal!
Put the young cockerel with Cowboy's sister!
Put Cowboy with your best mottled hens.
See what I did there? PROBLEM SOLVED.
Ahem. You all missed out.....I have leghorn hens and have crossed them with a few things and kept the offspring.
Leghorn x Jersey Giant. Beautiful white with black spots....someone who bought one from me called them "dalmatian hens". Great layers of large cream colored eggs. Big sturdy hens...
Its a toss up with the males. Some spray, some don't. I had a pet male in the house for a year and he never sprayed. And i;ve had others who started making a big mess at about 3 months. A lot depends on personality. I don't expect Zippity to spray (although anything is possible).
I actually...
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You were like a kid in a candy store, I bet. If the black looks anything close to the one you showed me last night I know you are out of your mind in love with it. Beautiful!
Too cool about leaving your girl for breeding. So now you will have more on the way so you can show the kids in...
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I actually didn't make it home til this morning.....we stopped for food after your place and didn't get back to my friends until nearly midnight. And then by the time I went shopping in her rabbitry it was even later! LOL. Got a FANTASTIC OMG new black buck, left my really nice black...
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He led a sheltered life.....I took him and both brothers to a show back in early october (and sold the brothers)...that was the first time he had ever been out of the laundry room.....and since then he has been in a cage out in the bunny area in the garage. He just needs some time to...