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post #2811 of 3828
7/5/12 at 6:42pm

Thank you for the compliment on my birds!  I have no illusions that we'll be showing anytime soon (or ever, really), but we think our girls are lovely!  It amazes me how soft their feathers are.

 

Also, thank you for welcoming me into the thread.  I'll just gawk at your pretty showgirls, and snuggle with Amelia (who just chased off a crow, by the way.  Don't mess with her treats!).

 

--Nikki
 

Adoptive mom to 3 cats, 1 rabbit, and a 9 year old human boy, and bio mom to a 5 year old girl. 

Mother hen to 1 buff orpington, 1 buckeye, 1 silver laced wyandotte, 1 barred rock, 1 light brahma, and 2 easter eggers.

Our cardigan welsh corgi, Maddie, loves to herd chickens, children, and cats!

 

You can't scare me!  I teach 6th grade!

 

 

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Adoptive mom to 3 cats, 1 rabbit, and a 9 year old human boy, and bio mom to a 5 year old girl. 

Mother hen to 1 buff orpington, 1 buckeye, 1 silver laced wyandotte, 1 barred rock, 1 light brahma, and 2 easter eggers.

Our cardigan welsh corgi, Maddie, loves to herd chickens, children, and cats!

 

You can't scare me!  I teach 6th grade!

 

 

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post #2812 of 3828
7/5/12 at 9:44pm
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Originally Posted by nikki1 View Post

Thank you for the compliment on my birds!  I have no illusions that we'll be showing anytime soon (or ever, really), but we think our girls are lovely!  It amazes me how soft their feathers are.

 

Also, thank you for welcoming me into the thread.  I'll just gawk at your pretty showgirls, and snuggle with Amelia (who just chased off a crow, by the way.  Don't mess with her treats!).

 

--Nikki
 

I've never shown my birds either. I just enjoy them! thumbsup.gif

 

 I dream of a day where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned


Me and my Hubby, 2 dogs, 1 French Cuckoo Maran, 1 Barred Rock, 5 RIR's, 1 Easter Egger, 2 Leghorns, 1 Araucana, 2 Mottled Cochins, 2 Cochin Cross, 1 Frizzle, 1 Phoenix, and 1 question mark.

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 I dream of a day where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned


Me and my Hubby, 2 dogs, 1 French Cuckoo Maran, 1 Barred Rock, 5 RIR's, 1 Easter Egger, 2 Leghorns, 1 Araucana, 2 Mottled Cochins, 2 Cochin Cross, 1 Frizzle, 1 Phoenix, and 1 question mark.

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post #2813 of 3828
7/6/12 at 5:40am

I never show mine, either, never planned to. I just love Barred Rocks, hatchery, heritage, whatever. To me, they are the quintessential backyard or barnyard chicken. I also am very fond of my blue, black and splash Rocks, but the barreds will always be my first love.

 

My Stukel line Barred Rocks are the best eye candy, huge sweet hens who will still brood and forage with the best of 'em.

 

I have two 5 1/2 year old hens from McMurray parents, eggs given to me by my friend Kate (helmstead on BYC), who lay, though Amanda has some issues with arthritis and the heat is beginning to bother her now more than usual. Becca lays 4 eggs per week right now, not too shabby for an old girl, 'eh?

 

And I have Fern, a BR from hatchery parents, raised as a lone chick by a broody banty Cochin, who is almost 4 years old now, lays 6 eggs a week, sometimes 7, even at her age. Fern's daughter, Barbara, is very small-bodied with a wonky comb, but she lays HUGE eggs every day.

 

The BBS Rocks are great layers of jumbo eggs-they are over 2 years old now, except for the splash, who younger and is just going into her first big molt and lays a bit less often at the moment, but is still laying. My Rocks don't seem to stop long to molt until they are much older.

 

So, you really can't go wrong with Rocks, IMO.
 

 

~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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post #2814 of 3828
7/6/12 at 9:24am

I think that Boodles, is finally FINALLY done brooding!! You see, we don't have any roosters, so I hate it when my hens brood.

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post #2815 of 3828
7/7/12 at 5:38am

You could get an EE roo and have babies with colored eggs! I think they would be green if crossed to a brown egg layer...but I like green eggs and ham hahahalau.gif

Happily married mom, with a wonderful 2 year old boy, many chickens, ducks, geese, and Great Danes on 50 acres with a pond and a old family home in south east Ga.... and trying to start a pick your own organic fruit farm :)  Visit our Great Danes at http://nightmagicpride.com/ We have blue European puppies several times a year :) and they all LOVE the chickens, ducks and geese!

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Happily married mom, with a wonderful 2 year old boy, many chickens, ducks, geese, and Great Danes on 50 acres with a pond and a old family home in south east Ga.... and trying to start a pick your own organic fruit farm :)  Visit our Great Danes at http://nightmagicpride.com/ We have blue European puppies several times a year :) and they all LOVE the chickens, ducks and geese!

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post #2816 of 3828
7/7/12 at 11:08pm

How do you breed to get a Hampbar?

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

In Jesus name Amen :)

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God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

In Jesus name Amen :)

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post #2817 of 3828
7/8/12 at 5:53am
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How do you breed to get a Hampbar?


New Hampshire male over a Barred Rock female then put the F1 male back over New Hampshire females and hatch a bunch of eggs LOL because your going to get multiple color patterns at first then take the Buff-barred F2s and breed away.

 

Jeff

There's a whole world of differences between propagators and breeders. My goal is to propagate breeders towards the Standard of Perfection.
 
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, you can make a purse out of it, but it won't be silk. LOL
 
Maybe in about another 30-40 years I'll get this "being an expert" thing figured out by then. LOL
 
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There's a whole world of differences between propagators and breeders. My goal is to propagate breeders towards the Standard of Perfection.
 
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, you can make a purse out of it, but it won't be silk. LOL
 
Maybe in about another 30-40 years I'll get this "being an expert" thing figured out by then. LOL
 
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post #2818 of 3828
7/8/12 at 11:40am
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New Hampshire male over a Barred Rock female then put the F1 male back over New Hampshire females and hatch a bunch of eggs LOL because your going to get multiple color patterns at first then take the Buff-barred F2s and breed away.

 

Jeff

Thanks, Sounds like it will take a couple years, lol. But I'm gonna try it.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

In Jesus name Amen :)

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God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

In Jesus name Amen :)

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post #2819 of 3828
7/8/12 at 11:45am

Or take one of my rhodebar roos and put on new hampshire hens!! big_smile.png

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post #2820 of 3828
7/15/12 at 12:56pm

Here are my 2. One of them has only one leg.

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