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  1. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I'm pretty sure my siblings would notice within a year (frequency of our contact, pretty much), but that doesn't help the animals.
  2. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Four of the five found their way without any assistance tonight. That includes the girl I thought was night-blind! as well as the BA cross. The fifth had tucked herself in under the rooster in the big kids coop. I carried her over and she climbed up. I have two more to get up there, then the...
  3. LaurenRitz

    Possible breeding program

    Current flock. I love seeing them spread out like this in the morning. So far all the little boys are perfectly behaved. Deciding between them is going to be difficult.
  4. LaurenRitz

    Games vs Kraienkoppe

    I am still trying to figure out which is which. I have found pictures of adults for both groups, but not juveniles. I could wait, but I need to separate the game boys before they mature. These pictures are all of pullets. They are currently 12 weeks old. The first two pictures are the same...
  5. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    One of the little girls came to roost without assistance day before yesterday. Last night I armed myself with wheat and lured them over so they "found" it themselves and climbed up on their own. We'll see what happens tonight. Once they have it down I will open up the bachelor pad and see what...
  6. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    The night temperatures were running in the 80's for a while there, so if there were two or three of them it's possible, if not likely. While he does look like one of the other chicks, his comb is much brighter. There are turkeys in the area, but I've never seen them near my house.
  7. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I begin to think that some of the chicks I thought dead might have gone feral. I mostly have the girls out in this group, along with two cockerels. The rest are in their bachelor pad. But a couple of times in the past week I've seen another cockerel, the same size as the 11 week chicks. He...
  8. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    The BA cross among the chicks (likely a pullet) put herself to bed with the adults last night. I have no objection. I'm keeping an eye on one of the game chicks (I assume) and one of the Dorking-Sussex crosses. They don't want to get down in the morning and spend an inordinate amount of time...
  9. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    My first aggressive rooster was about the same age. I talked to the family who gave him to me but they hadn't noticed anything--except that he and several of his brothers were constantly fighting. On discussing it with them, they weren't free ranging their birds. The boys had been in a bachelor...
  10. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    First I would be talking to whoever you got him from. Did they notice any aggression? If so, under what circumstances? The fact that he's 2 years old and showing aggressive tendencies tells me this is an established pattern and not likely to change.
  11. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    These are all seedlings. They make it through their first summer with me babying them, make it through their first winter, but never make it through their 2nd summer. Maybe I should plant them in the fall?
  12. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    I need to figure out how to get rhubarb through the summer. It makes it through the winter, then dies. Marshmallow and licorice are doing great, though. I've got enough oregano, lemon balm and catnip that I can start harvesting them, so definitely progress. We'll see if chives, chamomile...
  13. LaurenRitz

    Possible breeding program

    The bym is chasing the non-laying pullets. Haven't seen him mate one yet, but that's one of my no-tolerance behaviors. I will give him another week before making a decision.
  14. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    At this point most of the boys that come in black have that patterning. Their grandfather had that coloring as well, as did their father's brother. This is their grandfather. This one is currently in isolation, waiting for him to grow up a little. He's got the same father, but his mother is...
  15. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    These are all ((JGxRIR)xRIR)xBA. I thought the combs were interesting. All three are cockerels. The hens and pullets with the same bloodline have the same dark comb.
  16. LaurenRitz

    Need help with breed ID

  17. LaurenRitz

    Need help with breed ID

    Hope this helps. I'm the scary monster, and they always run into tall grass. The last two are the same bird.
  18. LaurenRitz

    Need help with breed ID

    Of the five chicks in this picture, I know the identity of two. The white and the black are mixed breeds. They are all 10 weeks old, and I believe all are pullets. The other 3 could be either Kraienkoppe or American Game. I can't find pictures of juveniles for either breed. Just chicks and...
  19. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I had a Jersey Giant hen who preferred to roost on those rafters, so I figured it should work, but watching him struggle just to get up makes me wonder.
  20. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    The Sussex-Dorking mix can't get up to the roost without assistance yet. I have left the ladder up, but yesterday they were roosting on the top rung again. I put them up. The boy ran from me and was trying to get up by himself. Right now he can fly about 2/3 of the way up, so about 8 feet...
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