BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[CanadianBuckeye]

Nankins is the ancient bantam breed i was looking for. Not a good meat bird and not a good egg layer but i do wonder at the potental value in not needing a lot of food everyday compared to the high egg layers....for a farm producing its own feed... in a suitable climate as it needs prtection from cold....

If you are thinking of a chicken that small, In that case, you might want to consider jumbo quail.

 

[hellbender]

Nankins is the ancient bantam breed i was looking for. Not a good meat bird and not a good egg layer but i do wonder at the potental value in not needing a lot of food everyday compared to the high egg layers....for a farm producing its own feed... in a suitable climate as it needs prtection from cold....

IMHO...one might as well keep a flock of moths as compared to the Nankins. I'm guessing they are about equal in their ability to withstand rough conditions....perhaps the moth might have the edge.

 

[miss heny]

Haha

Sorry..My laying flock (the major layers) are seramaXOEGBs and they thrive well then again I just have this thing for bantams in general

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, this is a little weird. I was doing my daily poop scoop today in the cream legbar coop, and found a little drop of dried blood on the edge of the sand tray that hadn't been there the day before. However, there was zero blood in the poops. I looked up, and against the wall of the coop by the upper roost was all this scattered dried blood (including underside of roof). A little bit of blood in the bits of bedding below but not much.




All birds seem healthy, foraging well all day - I examined all three pullets in great detail (to their chagrin), no blood, no hidden injuries under feathers (cockerel does not have long spurs yet either), vent fine, no dried blood that I could see around nose or mouth. Got three nice eggs first thing this AM. The only thing is that Paula was in the coop right before I was scooping, scratching around on the plywood floor and pecking. like she was looking for something. Dumbledore also went up a bit. They never go in there during the day except when laying. Didn't pick Dumbledore up, but got a good look at him, no blood that I could see, and he also seems fine. (He also tends to sit more to the left of this on the roost).

So, I guess it's between one of my birds having a really bad bloody nose overnight and shaking her head all over the place (which I should probably go look up), vs. them finding a small frog or baby mouse in the coop (though why it would be up on the roost is beyond me). Anybody seen anything like this?

- Ant Farm

 

[varidgerunner]

Sometimes when somebody is clumsy and falls off the roost they flail around and cut their wing tips and sling blood everywhere. (Painted the inside of a chicken coop white once, never do that again.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Sometimes when somebody is clumsy and falls off the roost they flail around and cut their wing tips and sling blood everywhere. (Painted the inside of a chicken coop white once, never do that again.

Thanks! That might make sense - I watched through the egg door this evening as they settled down, and Dumbledore seemed to be trying to rearrange himself to a different position in the middle on the roost instead of at the end (the girls totally control bed time arrangements, and were having none of it), and while I was watching, he almost fell while trying to do something impossible balance-wise. Maybe it was him. (fingers crossed!)

- Ant Farm

 

[hellbender]

Thanks! That might make sense - I watched through the egg door this evening as they settled down, and Dumbledore seemed to be trying to rearrange himself to a different position in the middle on the roost instead of at the end (the girls totally control bed time arrangements, and were having none of it), and while I was watching, he almost fell while trying to do something impossible balance-wise. Maybe it was him. (fingers crossed!)

- Ant Farm

I've seen this a lot with youngsters. (Especially with white walls...lol), it can look like a mass murder scene with plenty of 'cast-off blood'. No need to call CSI......

 

[miss heny]

I...have never seen that XD but at least I know so when I do I won't freak.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I've seen this a lot with youngsters. (Especially with white walls...lol), it can look like a mass murder scene with plenty of 'cast-off blood'. No need to call CSI......

Very helpful - indeed, I looked up and the first thing I thought of was interpretation of blood spatter patterns. I mean really - the ceiling???!!! Yikes!

- Ant Farm

 

[hellbender]

Haha

Sorry..My laying flock (the major layers) are seramaXOEGBs and they thrive well

then again I just have this thing for bantams in general

Consider the lowest Winter temps in your area...