California - Northern

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Adorable critters!

Oh, woops....pressed "submit" too soon. Here are a few more of the animals.....

My little Dane and "her" Togg babies from last year






One-Eyed Barn Kitty (aka Naughty Kitty)



And a few of my Jersey Wooly rabbits

Ahhh, gorgeous!

Well, thank you all for the warm welcome.

I am actually a little past Hollister Hills. Love it out here. Love Hollister.

Here are a few pics of our animals.



Sumatra roo



One of his hens (probably the mother of the hen in my avatar)

 

[debs_flock]

ChickenPotPie, gorgeous sumatra, love the blue JW (my son used to show them) and I have a Harle *****,

Deb

 

[Hangtown Farms]

You sound like I was last year about this time. Now I have Silkie broodies - and chicken math has multiplied that up to 4 silkies.... and now a roo....

Just a note on the Privet EEs.. the two "Americauna" I got from my feed store last year (they buy from Privet) both did not have beards/muffs. The hen does lay a green egg (the other was a rooster) - but you might get some that lay a brown/tan egg. If they managed to loose the muffs/beards, what else did they loose? Choose carefully....

you can see the puffy faces. So choose for that if you want the cheeks .
Hatchery easter eggers are a toss up on the beards and muffs due to the crosses they used down the road,
I think there are production Red in many of them. Iegs can vary. Unless you know what goes into them you wont know what will come out lol

 

[ChickenPotPie]

Harlie Dane.....

ChickenPotPie, gorgeous sumatra, love the blue JW (my son used to show them) and I have a Harle *****,

Deb

And, thanks, all. Yes, my boys love it when we have babies to bottle feed. It's the one time a year that we all forget what a pain in the rear goats can be.

 

[debs_flock]

ChickenPotPie, gorgeous sumatra, love the blue JW (my son used to show them) and I have a Harle *****,

Deb

Apparently the filter doesn't let you say girl dog.........................but you can say boy chicken, LOL

Yes, Emma is a sweetie.

Deb

 

[PetRock]

The worst would be if she attacked the new chicks. I do not think that will happen. She may have trouble keeping them under her but she is doing ok with the one. I think she will be fine.

We put 3 day old chicks under our broody head hen. She had been sitting on a wooden egg for 4 weeks by that point. We had her in a medium sized dog kennel so not much extra room. We took the chicks out to her about 1 hour after dark. We slipped the chicks under her and slipped out the wooden egg. She did give one or two a little peck when they popped out from under her. Maybe she was just telling them to get back under her where it was warm. She was one happy mama and was a good mom for the 4 1/2 weeks that she cared for them. She taught them how to forage, protected them from everyone, and integrated them into the flock. It was a wonderful experience! I am hoping that we have some broodies around here this year!

 

[ChickenPotPie]

Apparently the filter doesn't let you say girl dog.........................but you can say boy chicken, LOL

Yes, Emma is a sweetie.

Deb

LOL

Our little girl has been spayed. One look at the litter of TWELVE she came from was enough to convince me I'd leave the breeding up to the expert. We have often thought that ONE mating created over 3/4 of a TON of dogs!

Um, no thanks. LOL! Love the breed, though. I'm sold on them.

Do you show your girl?

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: Yes, I was selecting for color, and forgot to look at faces. I wondered what they had added to up the egg count, these new birds are laying a lot more than the old Easter Eggers I bought did. However, that will shorten their egg laying life. The old birds are still laying at 7-8 years old.

Quote: My mom had a broody adopt some hatchery chicks, she tolerated them for awhile but finally gave up on them because they wouldn't COME when she called them. She didn't hurt them though - and she only selected certain ones to adopt. However, my mom had another broody hen that basically attacked any chick that wasn't the right color (black), even one she had hatched out herself (it was white).. so your experience may vary. I think putting them under her at night is the best way for the mommy to listen to the cheeps of the babies, and accept them as hers.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: She was a show prospect when we bought her, but I just never got myself back out there (I showed dogs for 35+ years in the past). I thought about showing again, but just decided to enjoy her at home. Now it's a moot point, we fought happy tail syndrome with her for almost 2 years, we recently gave up and had her tail docked. It was starting to look like the infection might spread to the bone and I just couldn't justify keeping her on antibiotics so often. Our house looked like a CSI crime scene with even blood sprays on the ceiling. I wrapped her tail twice a day all that time. I have to admit, it's so much easier now with her tail gone.

She is a big girl, cruises the counter tops and weighs in at 140# (her dad was 190#). I have no intention of breeding her, I feel a commitment to any puppy I produce and can't imagine what I'd do with a litter if I couldn't find appropriate homes.

Deb

 

[juststruttin]

Ron, you don't think Friday is too long? I am not really prepared to have to brood chicks right now if she rejects them, KWIM!

Where are you? I have chicks hatching right now. I am in Novato if you're near by.