Please help, desperately ISO a good breeder to SQ trout/gray drake. I lost my beautiful boy tonight and I'm devastated.
Preferably within a 3 hour drive of Lansing or Ann Arbor, MI but will consider shipped when the weather improves.
Thank you
PS Any leads to breeders would be appreciated.
From a pen of birds that are somewhat of a mystery to me background wise (ok, a complete mystery).
In the pen is a simply gorgeous black roo who ended up having a lot of silver in his hackles, I was going to pet him out, but instead I put him in a pen with 2 black girls and 2 silver partridge...
I wish I knew, they were a gift.
I would call them very good production quality. They are not SQ, but beautiful birds for a pet/laying flock, not the odd 'almost-not-runners-at-all' the hatcheries sometimes seem to send ;)
I'll go out and see if I can get a good shot of how they look now as...
I will try to get a recent picture and add it, right now I only have this older pic from last year when they were still juvies just shedding out their baby down.
Fertility is tested and is superb and at current laying rates I can make up an order of 12 plus generous extras every 2 days.
No...
I'm just broken hearted and beating myself up, I moved my 4 gorgeous 2 month old porcelain babies out to the coop, I did it so carefully, let them become adjusted to cooler temps slowly and made sure they were being accepted by the older group.
Last night for some reason one wandered away from...
Here are a few more of the Craigslist group I posted yesterday
First is the grey from Bobbi Porto (I think I have it right)
The only boy
beardless black girl..
Bearded black girl..
I was thinking of putting the babies in a dog crate in the coop until thy get used to each other.
In the summer I put my babies in a transition pen next to the adults for a couple of days, but it's too cold for that now. I've raised a lot of babies, but never in the winter before.
I've put...
I have 4 in the house that are 7-8 weeks old, not under lights, at 'room temperature' which is about 60 at night and 70 during the day, and 11 fully grown in the coop I'd like to put them in.
I could put them in the bathroom for some transition time as I can keep it about 50-55 in there with...