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  1. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Ellie Mae's Babies - pics of parents colors :)

    Your hen looks just like my Narraganset hen from what I can see.... If your tom isnt the same coloration thats where your multicoloring is coming from. The multicolored poult looks like my Nary poults. What fun to have all the colors though! We are currently hopibng our hen is...
  2. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Diamond Doves... new to these guys...

    Thanks for the wonderful info. They have started moving around more, puffing up less and even cooing. I can make a cooing whistle sound to them and they coo back. Are the males more apt to coo than the females? One coos more than the other two. I think it is the male. When moving them into...
  3. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Diamond Doves... new to these guys...

    So I was given a pair of Diamond doves and their baby Friday. They were with a bunch of canaries and finches in a large cage and the canaries were tormenting them. Babys tail was picked almost bloody. and the backs of the parents tails are bare. I got a cage similar to what they were used...
  4. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    6 hours out of the incubator......

    I pulled 6 silkies and 3 cochins, 2 americaunas a duckling and a guinea keet out of the incubator today... 6 hours out and the brooder light attracted bugs while we were bringing in groceries, they are already running them down and fighting over them.... bloodthirsty little monsters :-)
  5. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Tell me about Silver Seabrights...

    ...hoard of LF mixbreed, buff orph and EE chicks and turkeys this weekend so im not so overrun and can walk in my rabbit barn without being mauled. *sigh* being good sure isnt fun.... but I already just bought 15 silver laced & a white cochin...... and I still need to sort out my Gold Laced...
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    Help!!!! i'm holdin a wild turkey egg to keep it warm what do i do?

    Id say broody is better than nothing if you dont have an incubator.
  7. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Tell me about Silver Seabrights...

    Ok if i want them I can have an entire flock of silver seabrights. an adult Trio and a gazillion started youngsters... I like their little uprightly look and love silver laced...... But how are they temperament wise, healthwise, fertility and hatchability, hardiness, broodiness...
  8. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    They're pipping wrong!!

    My EE that lays blue eggs... ALL of her eggs have hatched like that. Hatch rate is real low for her too... drives me crazy as I really want babies from her... grrr....
  9. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Bantam Cochins....Silver Laced X Black --UPDATE! GOT THE ROOO TOOO!!!

    UPDATE! I got the roo too!!!! And 6 more silver laced babies!!!! THats a total of two hens, 1 roo and 9 babies!!!! I am uuber happy! The roo is a looker.. I will try to get some pics soon and update!
  10. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Am I a game roo?

    Definitely not meat bird.... he is a lean mean tiny little guy, bantam sized. other than his coloring he seems to resemble american games? Not familiar with the types... are there bantam games? Do they use bantams to fight? Lets just say... the circle he came from.... could have had...
  11. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Am I a game roo?

    Anybody want to take a guess as to what this little guy is????? He was a lone chick given to us because he was too noisy..(lonely) GOt a heck of an attitude..... currently on probation for flogging my ankle the other day.... if he does it again hes gonna get dunked in the stock tank and if...
  12. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Self-Blue Cochin Bantams

    heres the girl... shes pretty roughed up... Im hoping her feathers will come back in. All of his "blue" hens were identical to this one... I couldnt tell them apart...
  13. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Self-Blue Cochin Bantams

    I actually bought one of the females because of her color. I will try to catch her and take pics after our heatwave is over.... supposed to hit 105 here today and I dont want to stress them out any more than they already will be. I was really suprised not to see any splashes in his...
  14. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Self-Blue Cochin Bantams

    Can a "regular" blue be a lavender carrier.. ie recessive? is that what the "split" term mean? Im used to colors in rabbits and am still learning chickens... The "looks lavender" hens i mentioned are older than the blue rooo.... is it possible that he is the offspring of a lavender and...
  15. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Self-Blue Cochin Bantams

    Self blue question... Blue crossed with self blue(lavender) What woudl you get... I have a hen I got that looks like these.... all the hens looked like these and their babies did too. Absuletely no splashes or blacks on the property...... The roos that he had were a silver laced and a a...
  16. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Urgent hen hatched poult question.... the Male?

    well the barn they are in is open on one side and chain linked off for the birds. Very drafty. I dont want to take any chances..... The "box/corral is like 6 feet long and 3 feet wide.. pretty big so there is a heat lamp.... even momma was laying under it last night, storms rolled through...
  17. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Urgent hen hatched poult question.... the Male?

    ok thanks I locked him out and he got to sleep in his favorte place anyways... on top of the barn to greet the sun gobbling. I had to make a corrall out of wood for them anyways... they kept wandering off randomly and getting lost... They are penned up in the barn with heatlamp food and...
  18. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Urgent hen hatched poult question.... the Male?

    Ok my hen hatched 4 babies today... they run off like idiots and get lost so I penned them up in a little brooder corral... I am moving the corrall into the barn the turkeys sleep in at night. Usually the chickens are in there too but I moved them somewhere else yesterday when I heard peeping...
  19. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Bantam Cochins....Silver Laced X Black --UPDATE! GOT THE ROOO TOOO!!!

    I luv luv luv her.... He pulled her out of the nest box and I almost hyperventilated.... I never dreamed I would find a nice silver laced cochin here in west texas... not for the $10 I spent for each one... Im still dizzy from the excitement... Hoping my 3 babies are as pretty... I tried to pick...
  20. CrazyWestTexasFarmGirl

    Bantam Cochins....Silver Laced X Black --UPDATE! GOT THE ROOO TOOO!!!

    And the other one
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