Haha, again here's an example of the beauty of chicken math. How would you count the difference between 85-100, especially if they're mingling about?? ;)
For those of you in the cold climates, what do you do-if anything-to prevent frostbite on the roosters combs? We had about a week of chilly temps, like 20 at night. I went out the first evening and smeared chapstick on him, went to store for vaseline the next day and applied a thick coating it...
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I have a young Partridge Roo that was bred by Jerry Poole. He's in the gangly stage right now but so far so good. Gorgeous leg color. Like his temperament too, not as flighty as some.
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We have had fertility and hatching issues. In the beginning it was infertile eggs so I put the penes in a larger breeder pen but results didn't improve. Then swapped roosters with some improvement. Have swapped roos yet again and fertility is getting better BUT still have many penes...
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Are you saying those dark eggs are from Wheaten Penes? :wo
Do you ever sell hatching eggs? I would love to have some Wheaten girls that lay like that!
The 2 darkest eggs were from one of my partridge hens. I suspect one of my new wheaten girls is laying a super dark egg though-really...
Hey my last pic attempt worked so will post a pic of Partridge Roo that I no longer have, don't know if you can see in the photo but he has a very nice kings comb.
I'm quite computer illiterate so not sure if this pic will show up. Don't have pics of my current penes so thought I'd try to post this pic of eggs, the 2 darkest ones are the penes. Currently have mediocre partridge, nicer wheaten and hope to add a few Crele. Don't post often but do read this...
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How exciting to learn of another Pene enthusiast so close to me-I'm near Molalla. I too have a yellow-legged Roo, as well as a slate-leg, both partridge. I think yellow-legs are somewhat dominant over slate, hopefully someone will chime in with that info. I've acquired a few more Pene...
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Penes aren't a breed for everyone, they are definitely their "own bird"!! Some like them, others not so much. I chose them because they are so unusual, and personally I enjoy having some independent birds in my flock. I purchased my first chicks from an urban farm store-sure learned my...