Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

Newest chicks now 7-8 weeks oldView attachment 2851177

Looking closer at this picture, I can see the white one with the black on the back on that back roost. It has to be Cowgirl's chick. The white one on the first roost look's cockerel to me. The comb is large and too deep of a pink for that age. The colored Naked Neck on the back roost look's to have a crest on her head.

 

[CaroleW]

Looking closer at this picture, I can see the white one with the black on the back on that back roost. It has to be Cowgirl's chick. The white one on the first roost look's cockerel to me. The comb is large and too deep of a pink for that age. The colored Naked Neck on the back roost look's to have a crest on her head.

Yes I agree the front white NN and the supersize black NN/Wyandotte in back are both cockerels. The two mostly white NNs and Crested NN (this is 'Boots') are all Roger and Cowgirl's.

'Cowgirl Jr' and 'Boots' are so beautiful roosting together with their neckwear and hats - they look ready for a fancy party!

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes I agree the front white NN and the supersize black NN/Wyandotte in back are both cockerels. The two mostly white NNs and Crested NN (this is 'Boots') are all Roger and Cowgirl's.

'Cowgirl Jr' and 'Boots' are so beautiful roosting together with their neckwear and hats - they look ready for a fancy party!

Now what's the story on how Boots earn her name?

 

[CaroleW]

Now what's the story on how Boots earn her name?

'Boots' hatched and was scratching her neck so much I thought she would die, her toenails were injuring her neck. So I fashioned boots out of blue painter's tape soles and tshirt material tops to wrap her toenails and prevent further self-wounding of her neck! I think you were the one who linked to someone else fixing a chick foot with that kind of boot (back in time somewhere) - that gave me the idea to make her boots!

Cowgirl and Cowgirl Jr and Boots all sound so western but Boots was not named to be western originally...LOL... I'm just so happy she survived!

 

[BlueBaby]

'Boots' hatched and was scratching her neck so much I thought she would die, her toenails were injuring her neck. So I fashioned boots out of blue painter's tape soles and tshirt material tops to wrap her toenails and prevent further self-wounding of her neck! I think you were the one who linked to someone else fixing a chick foot with that kind of boot (back in time somewhere) - that gave me the idea to make her boots!

Oh, ok. So it was that chick that had the problem back then. She seem's to look to be doing ok now.

 

[CaroleW]

Oh, ok. So it was that chick that had the problem back then. She seem's to look to be doing ok now.

Yes she turned out to be great - she is also very tolerant of being picked up. I hope she lays green tinted eggs like her mother.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes she turned out to be great - she is also very tolerant of being picked up. I hope she lays green tinted eggs like her mother.

She should. She has the CCLB crest from her mother's side for sure, and her other daughter with a crest that lives next door to me started laying green egg's about a couple of week's ago. They will most likely be a little bit deeper of a green then the Cowgirl's though, as the one next door is, but then again they had different daddies.

 

[BlueBaby]

It look's like I will most likely get some Bielefelder chick's and a dozen hatching egg's for those in a couple more week's give or take. The chick's will be 3 pullet's and a cockerel. I just got off the phone talking to her and trying to set it up.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

It look's like I will most likely get some Bielefelder chick's and a dozen hatching egg's for those in a couple more week's give or take. The chick's will be 3 pullet's and a cockerel. I just got off the phone talking to her and trying to set it up.

We're going to need pictures.

 

[BlueBaby]

We're going to need pictures.

These are the one's that can be sexed right away! I'm so excited!