Allie & Bino, the albino orpington chicks

[chiques chicks]

The albinos aren't laying yet, only one hatch mate.

Bino is an angry young man. He drew blood with his break on day one. Hopefully his time in isolation (he can hear my flock and gets visited by escapees and my one feral chicken) will calm him a little. I need to work on a new hoop house for him and his potential flock this weekend. I'm still undecided if I will directly breed him with my albino girls, or use him for a time to expand the albino gene base by breeding him with some colored and some with a possible albino gene. I feel he needs a large flock to keep him calmed.

He is a beautiful bird. I will try to post a couple pictures of him in the next week.

 

[chippysmom327]

The albinos aren't laying yet, only one hatch mate.

Bino is an angry young man. He drew blood with his break on day one. Hopefully his time in isolation (he can hear my flock and gets visited by escapees and my one feral chicken) will calm him a little. I need to work on a new hoop house for him and his potential flock this weekend. I'm still undecided if I will directly breed him with my albino girls, or use him for a time to expand the albino gene base by breeding him with some colored and some with a possible albino gene. I feel he needs a large flock to keep him calmed.

He is a beautiful bird. I will try to post a couple pictures of him in the next week.

Oh woops, my bad. But yeah, his hormones are MORE than raging. Have his feet been bright red? It scared me one day, I thought he had an infection of some sort. Then I read it was just testosterone and it made perfect sense.

 

[Frindizzle]

Thanks Frindizzle!

I stand corrected on egg color! The egg she layed yesterday was brown and speckled!

This might sound weird, but the egg is really cute.

 

[chippysmom327]

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It's not weird at all! Wait until you see the egg she laid today! Her eggs went from tiny to huge in one day!

 

[emorems0]

The albinos aren't laying yet, only one hatch mate.

Bino is an angry young man. He drew blood with his break on day one. Hopefully his time in isolation (he can hear my flock and gets visited by escapees and my one feral chicken) will calm him a little. I need to work on a new hoop house for him and his potential flock this weekend. I'm still undecided if I will directly breed him with my albino girls, or use him for a time to expand the albino gene base by breeding him with some colored and some with a possible albino gene. I feel he needs a large flock to keep him calmed.

He is a beautiful bird. I will try to post a couple pictures of him in the next week.

Now you see why I didn't want to try transferring him from my crate to yours! Funny, Chippy didn't have seem to have any trouble handling him when she passed him off to me at the start of his road trip... I wonder how much of his 'anger' is related to stress from traveling? He really is beautiful and I wondered about the red in his feet... it was mostly just between his toes when I noticed it.

 

[emorems0]

Oh, and we are on week two of tiny, dark eggs from our Orpington that we got from CC. I wonder if she was from the same hatch group based on when she started laying... late February or early March I think.

compared to one of my black australorp eggs

 

[chippysmom327]

The albinos aren't laying yet, only one hatch mate.

Bino is an angry young man. He drew blood with his break on day one. Hopefully his time in isolation (he can hear my flock and gets visited by escapees and my one feral chicken) will calm him a little. I need to work on a new hoop house for him and his potential flock this weekend. I'm still undecided if I will directly breed him with my albino girls, or use him for a time to expand the albino gene base by breeding him with some colored and some with a possible albino gene. I feel he needs a large flock to keep him calmed.

He is a beautiful bird. I will try to post a couple pictures of him in the next week.

Now you see why I didn't want to try transferring him from my crate to yours! Funny, Chippy didn't have seem to have any trouble handling him when she passed him off to me at the start of his road trip... I wonder how much of his 'anger' is related to stress from traveling? He really is beautiful and I wondered about the red in his feet... it was mostly just between his toes when I noticed it.

You just can't be scared. Grab him and manhandle him but without being a jerk and hurting him. I personally am not a fan of holding by the legs, I feel it's disrespectful to the bird and it's uncomfortable for/hurts their lungs, making it hard to breathe.

I grab around the base of the tail but without pulling, just to hold them in place and then scoop one hand under the breast and lift them up. Then readjust my hands and hold them against my ribs.

He was always angry, lol. It could be a little from moving, and he does see better than Allie (in close distances) so maybe he sees his surroundings and recognizes that they're different so his stress converts to frustration.

 

[daskhan]

imagine from his point of you hes near blind.. everytime he starts to get his surrounding memerized hes scooped upped and rehomed and has to start all over that would anger me

 

[chiques chicks]

imagine from his point of you hes near blind.. everytime he starts to get his surrounding memerized hes scooped upped and rehomed and has to start all over that would anger me

I'm sure he is stressed. He has stopped flipping his feed and water bowls, sill getting used to his surroundings. I'm trying to keep it peaceful and not overly stress him.

As a general rule, none of my chickens are " friendly ", too many predators. And with a constant stream of broodies, I'm used to getting pecked.

He'll be just fine and is definitely welcomed here!

I haven't seen him turn red, probably an anger/excitement response. I'm trying to keep him calm.

 

[chippysmom327]

Has he tried to mate with his food or water yet? That's how they were flipped constantly here!

When I'd try to take his favorite girl (the waterer) he'd jump at my arm, claws out! Silly Bino...