Isn't that the truth...or sometimes you wish you had an extra hand -- but then someone would just hand you something and you would still have your hands full.......
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Thanks I really am happy with my flock. But the Cemani are not from GFF or Toni-Marie but another breeder whose prices are way more reasonable called Wolfwhyte here on BYC . I'm taking a chance that they are going to be something I can work with but these are the best I can afford - no thousand dollar birds here.... my DH would not go for that either. One of the persons with Toni-Marie's birds has personally 'banned' me from their Ayam Cemani USA Breeders group () because he says I stuck my nose into business that was not my own here on the Ayam Cemani Thread. His PMs are really kinda funny. The internet is filled with a lot of very self-described, self-important people.
I am thinking of re-penning the birds today into a Marans pen and a Legbar pen as opposed to the males and females separately as they are now. I'd like to dig out a third pen to put the White Sports into but not sure I have the time.... I need a double hour day Laingcroft. I'd like to see whose laying what but I need to dig up more pens for that. I have a few pullet eggs popping up so I'd like to find out who the bluer eggs are from. I'm looking forward to sitting down and deciding who goes with wiho. All the gold girls will go into the Marans pens for EEs. Their eggs are greener also.
I've thought about doing a brochure for my own birds to give out to customers and for if I ever do shows.
Knock on wood- this is a boy I marked to grow out for myself. Green band girl's son if I recall correctly. I am a little surprised to see the gold streaks in his wing triangle because there is no doubt in my mind that mom and dad are both double cream. Hm maybe something else is going on here besides the cream gene.
Did you just acquire these chickens? If so be sure to have them in quarantine. If one has or did have a respiratory infection then the others likely have also. The infection isn't causes by travel stress, it is already in the system of an infected chicken and the stress of a situation can cause it to surface. Depending on the type of infection(I think it is all respiratory infections) chickens will be carriers of this for life and can still shed the disease and likely pass it on to other chickens and chicks. Some diseases can be passed through eggs also. So please think about that before selling chicks and hatching eggs.Here is some updated photos of my girls. They are both the same age but the smaller had an upper respiratory infection from travel stress.
