California - Northern

[chickee]

Beautiful birds!!!

Thanks

Working with the different Polish colors, what do you think about the color on the chick with the black crest that has chocolate and gold coloring? She (?) is a cross of a buff laced rooster over either my WC blue cuckoo hen or WC Dun cuckoo hen. I was hoping for coloring similar to your birds

 

[ronott1]

Had fun taking pictures of some of my chickens today

Here are my bantam Polish chicks that are a few weeks old. Looks like I have 3 boys and 2 girls (on the left) by the shape of their crests. They are so goofy

I love my Polish!





Some of my Golden Cuckoo Marans pullets were milling around in the chicken house today making I want to lay an egg noises! Can't wait for my first chocolate eggs!!

My Golden Cuckoo Marans rooster.

 

[juststruttin]

Quote: Kim,
I really appreciate the offer but I have a couple extra Sulmtaler roosters that need a job. I absolutely love your birds and am excited about your project. Your project is inspiring and has made me realized that I need to adopt a dual purpose heritage breed. I don't move real fast so it may be next year before I get started. I need to first cut back on some of my existing birds/breeds.

I am not sure if it is fair to compare the FR with the Cornish Cross. From what I read, people have successfully raised them til adulthood and I am not sure if that is possible with the Corn X. The 4 FR girls I have live and act like other chickens and don't seem to be so obsessed with food. It could be that this boy may have had an eating disorder because he always acted like he was starving. Poor guy.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Ali
MF leghorns are unusual. Yours will lay many oodles of eggs. I mentioned it because people usually want leghorns for eggs. Mine lays 2-3 times a week tops. But my friend who was going to breed them is having a terrible time with her quad. She can't get 6 eggs in 4 days from them.
The orphs I can't help you with. I had a rescued buff orphington who sat on eggs 3x a year. She was rescued for being too broody Lol . they wanted eggs.But of course yYMMV. Dolly used to get chasedoff her nest by pumpkins. They had a thing.

Liz iI'm so sorry!! Mysterious dissapearances leave one feeling so worried. I do have 2 um ee close to pol. They should lay very pretty eggs. I could bring one up to novato next week or see if Mario's traveling around. Doesn't take the pain away but does help with the chicken math. Twin one is a solo girl and would be fine coming on her own.

We are going to the Cupertino area garage sales tomorrow . I'm hoping for some dog runs! Need 3-4 more paneled ones for the master plan!

darn just gave one away last week

I am very sad this morning. I think I mention a couple a weeks ago that I was trying to grow out some Freedom Rangers (5 1 roo, 4 pullets) as an experiment. I had plan to breed them together to see if the next generation breeds true. Unfortunately, the rooster started getting too big. In hindsight I should have put him on a restricted diet because he would literally eat all day long. He definitely had OCD with food. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed his legs were starting to bow and he became noticeable lame this week. I had to make the humane decision to have him processed. He was 18 weeks old.

I am really sad because he was such a sweet bird. Who knew Freedom Rangers were so personable? I guess that is not a trait people want in a meat bird but there it is. He was always right under my feet and I think he actually liked being held. It was probably a relief to get off his legs because when I held him he would get so relaxed he would rest his head on my chest.

I still have the 4 girls and they seem fine. They're large but they are active foragers whereas the rooster was never found far from the feeder. I am optimistic that I will be able to grow the pullets to adulthood. I am now contemplating crossing them with a Sulmtaler rooster to see what that cross produces.

sorry Deann

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Working with the different Polish colors, what do you think about the color on the chick with the black crest that has chocolate and gold coloring? She (?) is a cross of a buff laced rooster over either my WC blue cuckoo hen or WC Dun cuckoo hen. I was hoping for coloring similar to your birds

they are nice

 

[chiqita]

deann I'm sorry for your loss. The people I know who have meat birds as pets make them run around and free range and do NOT give 24/7 acess to feed. If they graze they can live. Or at least I have people i know who have done it with cornish and BBS turkeys, the ultimate eaters who you need to make jog every day, lol. But even then its about 2 years tops. SO Id imagine the freedoms can live longer?

chickee your cuckoo Marans rooster has a very nice tail and comb! you rarely see them so low! Almost all teh MArans I see in the US have tails that are too high for the standard. That is at the other end of the spectrum, and looks very handsome.

I found another dog run that is short for silkies and grow outs. Now I jsut need to find 4 more in panels for teh grand plan! did I write about the rand plan? I don't remember...

 

[PetRock]

I read that and had two thoughts. #1~ Isn't it nice of them to try and help all these chicken owners for free. Even give them a free lunch. #2~ There is no such thing as a free lunch. They are gathering names of people who want to sell eggs so that they can keep an eye on them, or fine them, etc.

That's exactly what I thought!

 

[chiqita]

That's exactly what I thought!

LMAO, you cynics. The actually are probably mostly worried about run off and trash. And diseases, but we talked to some people at whatever county lodi is in fair, and apparently the water people have been trying to do reach out and get people to put less crap on their lawns to improve the quality of the groundwater and keep the counties from getting fined. And after they did some study, this resulted in more money for master gardener and backyard chicken programs. Apparently if they can get you to do some of these things, you put less toxic crap around your house and it goes down the drain less.

This would all be more useful information if I could remember the study!

 

[liz9910]

I am so sorry to hear that! My buff x blue wheaten Ameraucanas are super broody, so maybe she has a nest somewhere. I hope you are able to find her. If not, I still have one full sister to her that is a little younger and hasn't started laying yet that you can have

Thank you! That's sweet of you, however I found the sneaky girl today!

 

[chiqita]

Is she safe sitting there? If not might put her and her eggs in a dog crate while she is sleeping at night. We did that with pumpkins when she decided to nest in the wild. worked, jsut opened it in the morning so she could broody poo, and put food and water in with her. Just make SURE its safe if you put food and water there because that can attract predators too
and HUZZAH for her return!

 

[tommysgirl]

Thank you! That's sweet of you, however I found the sneaky girl today!

hahahahahahaha What a great resolution. So glad you found her,

Chiqita Thanks for the inadvertent advice to me. I tried moving my broody to break her this summer but she was determined. Never thought of doing it after I relented and gave her eggs...as Ali would say, "Doh!"