JohnEugene
Chirping
I have acquired some new game fowl, two young stags, and two hens. The stags are 3/4 Oak Grove Yellow-legged Hatch and 1/4 Lieper Hatch. The hens are 1/2 Racy Mug, and 1/2 Lieper Hatch. I am posting some pictures of them. They are not very high quality pictures because I'm not that good at photographing chickens yet. I wish the pictures were better quality they don't do any of these birds justice. They are really very beautiful birds. I'm very happy with them.
All four actually have green legs instead of Yellow legs. One of the hens has a black tail and a red brown coloration on the wings. The other hen has a white tail, and is of a much lighter, almost cream-color all over. The hens are older than the stags and were already laying eggs this season. They were still in the same pen with the pure Harold Brown Gray they had been mated to. I brought them home and placed them in temporary cages until I can build them something more permanent.
In the morning when I went out to feed them, I found that one of the hens had laid an egg. It is possible that these hens may lay more eggs, which will be fertile… at least for the next ten days. So as an added bonus, if the incubation of at least the one egg I already have is successful, I will have some of the "pure Harold Brown Gray's" genes to infuse into my breeding program.
All four actually have green legs instead of Yellow legs. One of the hens has a black tail and a red brown coloration on the wings. The other hen has a white tail, and is of a much lighter, almost cream-color all over. The hens are older than the stags and were already laying eggs this season. They were still in the same pen with the pure Harold Brown Gray they had been mated to. I brought them home and placed them in temporary cages until I can build them something more permanent.
In the morning when I went out to feed them, I found that one of the hens had laid an egg. It is possible that these hens may lay more eggs, which will be fertile… at least for the next ten days. So as an added bonus, if the incubation of at least the one egg I already have is successful, I will have some of the "pure Harold Brown Gray's" genes to infuse into my breeding program.