only 8-11 days space between roo #1 and roo #2? i have always heard you need three weeks of time between the last day roo# 1 is with your girls (and taking a roo from them completely OR putting roo #2 with them) and the day you can for sure know the eggs they lay are definitely from roo #2.
nice BJ roo. i do not even know if i have posted my birds to this thread....if so forgive me, i confuse easily!
minerva, my designated broody
raising her FCBM foster chicks
my beautiful, gentlemanly protector, malcolm---not yet full grown in most of these. his comb was dubbed by...
my black javas hunt frogs with a vengeance when they free range the marshy area by their pen, and i once witnessed them attack and kill a small wild songbird that had wandered into the bottom (fenced in) run area of their coop, where their feeder was. the other birds kind of stood there like...
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thank you, thank you, thank you. so i can bring my birds and talk with him?! i'm right outside fayetteville! i must be becoming a huge chicken geek. cause now i am having heart palpitations, the good kind. feel like my adopted kids are about to meet their bio dad! thanks so much...
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i hope i am wrong in thinking he has passed, or that he gave up breeding BJs entirely. would love to get some more stock from him! i adore my birds and the roo is especially good-mannered and have had 100% fertility since i brought him home, covering up to 13 girls!
since people seem...
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Your link states you received your Javas from John Tunstall. He was a great breeder/exhibitor. Never met him but heard a lot about him.
jim, i am so excited to hear that. i had NO information on him other than he was an elderly gentleman who raised BJs forever. his birds all went to...
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The comb looks dubbed, did it have frostbite?
Walt
yes, his first winter, before i bought him. looks bad but of course doesn't effect his breeding.
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that's exactly how i got my BJs...an old man who had a flock for decades just cause he loved the breed. he sold all his birds to a local guy when he wasn't able to work them anymore. .
i have black javas. you can see pics in the link in my sig. or in this slideshow:
http://picasaweb.google.com/uuffdre/Javas?authkey=Gv1sRgCI-v6KW8_ZXRTg#slideshow/5450581670922747458
my roo has put on quite a bit of size since these pics.