California - Northern

[ronott1]

Thanks. I have the manual that came with it, just haven't read it.

I don't have any chemical cleaners. I have vinegar, peroxide, castile soap, citrus based cleaner... any of those work? I should buy some Oxine.

Vinegar is a great cleaner and should work too.

Make sure to clean those air holes at the bottom of the incubator with a Q tip.

 

[ronott1]

Good morning all.......

Have a question for you regarding a possibly sick pullet, possibly more than one.... or not.

I have a Polish that just layed the absolutely wateriest poo I have seen. I mean it was almost all water.

Also, I am using a poo board and there was a big area of a watery patch of wet sand/pdz/ It looked like someone dropped a glass of water there.

Anyway the one polish seems to be losing weight but she is out with the others. No other signs that I can really tell for sure.

I did also give them a flock block yesterday for entertainment, so that could possibly be the other digestive interruption, but this one particular girl is also losing weight and pretty quickly.

No blood or anything in any of the poo I see. Hers was just clear water.....I wouldn't be immediately concerned if she wasn't also losing weight. She was also acting a little spacey yesterday but she is Polish so I chalked that up to her not being able to see though her crest.

We have been at the new house a week now and they are still on the concrete section of the run. I have not yet let them out to any dirt areas. Did not notice poo of this type at all at the other house.

Make sure UCD Checks for Coccidiosis. While waiting, I would start them on corid. Only two types of cocci presents with blood in the poo. The type that my co worker had did not have blood in the poo.

 

[juststruttin]

I'm thinking of putting a coop/run on the back acre of our place. With all the critters we have I'm leaning towards putting a hot wire on it. Would the wire need tobe mounted above snow level?

I don't know much about hot wire and snow but I am wondering if you will need to run a ground wire. Does the snow act as a conductor or an insulator? I would think conductor (thinking water) but you may want to check.

We had a bobcat issue a couple years back. We ran a hot wire at the foot of the fence so no ground wire was required because the earth was the ground. However, when we ran the wire along the top of the fence we had to run a ground wire next to the hot wire. Apparently, since the cat's feet would be off the ground (therefor he was not grounded), he would have to touch both wires at the same time to get zapped.

 

[juststruttin]

If I ever go Bantam I want calico cochins...and maybe some nankins. Darling chicks!!!

I have a couple of Dyann's bantam Cochins and they are truly wonderful birds. So sweet. Just about everyone who comes here asks if they are for sale and I say Nope, they're keepers

 

[ronott1]

how well do the Colloncas lay? not any info on them really that I could find. just a few pictures.
Ron I have a friend way up in northern washington that has partridge penedesenca if you want more.Nice ones too

Yashar has some information and pictures. It say: Generous numbers.

# 3 - Colloncas (very nice line)
Colloncas are one of the original and most ancient breeds of the Mapuche Indian culture of Chile. They produce generous numbers of colourful eggs and like many South American fowl lay well into the winter. Some hens will produce a pale sea foam hued egg, others robin blue, ash grey and even lilac. A single pair of Colloncas may produce hens that each lay a different colour.

Colloncas are best known for innate tameness. They enjoy being held but unlike Silky fowl, which also enjoy human companionship, the Colloncas is completely winter hardy and can evade predators ably. It is a fairly strong flier and one of the more quiet breeds. Colloncas are very good at tick and fly control and are traditionally kept with sheep and llamas.
The Colloncas is one of the two primary ancestors of the Araucana. It is advisable that the poultier keep at least two roosters with a flock of hens, three is the ideal number as Colloncas have strong pair bonds and the roosters work in cooperation to defend and chaperone hens and chicks. As a rule, true Colloncas roosters do not fight with one another and are never aggressive with people.

 

[juststruttin]

Yashar has some information and pictures. It say: Generous numbers.

# 3 - Colloncas (very nice line)
Colloncas are one of the original and most ancient breeds of the Mapuche Indian culture of Chile. They produce generous numbers of colourful eggs and like many South American fowl lay well into the winter. Some hens will produce a pale sea foam hued egg, others robin blue, ash grey and even lilac. A single pair of Colloncas may produce hens that each lay a different colour.

Colloncas are best known for innate tameness. They enjoy being held but unlike Silky fowl, which also enjoy human companionship, the Colloncas is completely winter hardy and can evade predators ably. It is a fairly strong flier and one of the more quiet breeds. Colloncas are very good at tick and fly control and are traditionally kept with sheep and llamas.
The Colloncas is one of the two primary ancestors of the Araucana. It is advisable that the poultier keep at least two roosters with a flock of hens, three is the ideal number as Colloncas have strong pair bonds and the roosters work in cooperation to defend and chaperone hens and chicks. As a rule, true Colloncas roosters do not fight with one another and are never aggressive with people.

thanks for sharing this info. Sounds like an intriguing breed.

 

[chickee]

Yashar has some information and pictures. It say: Generous numbers.

# 3 - Colloncas (very nice line)
Colloncas are one of the original and most ancient breeds of the Mapuche Indian culture of Chile. They produce generous numbers of colourful eggs and like many South American fowl lay well into the winter. Some hens will produce a pale sea foam hued egg, others robin blue, ash grey and even lilac. A single pair of Colloncas may produce hens that each lay a different colour.

Colloncas are best known for innate tameness. They enjoy being held but unlike Silky fowl, which also enjoy human companionship, the Colloncas is completely winter hardy and can evade predators ably. It is a fairly strong flier and one of the more quiet breeds. Colloncas are very good at tick and fly control and are traditionally kept with sheep and llamas.
The Colloncas is one of the two primary ancestors of the Araucana. It is advisable that the poultier keep at least two roosters with a flock of hens, three is the ideal number as Colloncas have strong pair bonds and the roosters work in cooperation to defend and chaperone hens and chicks. As a rule, true Colloncas roosters do not fight with one another and are never aggressive with people.

Those are cool, but YIKES! Look at the size of those spurs on that rooster! Good thing they are non-aggressive!

 

[gryeyes]

Oh crap, there's a breed I am gonna want! I have resisted Penedesencas, Isbars, Emprese-whatcha-macallits, and others, but those Colloncas just triggered drool.

 

[ronott1]

Oh crap, there's a breed I am gonna want! I have resisted Penedesencas, Isbars, Emprese-whatcha-macallits, and others, but those Colloncas just triggered drool.

I know!

I hope I am high enough on the list to get them early next year.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: Thank you for this information, but I believe these are just more descendants of the ancestors of both the Araucanas and the Ameraucanas - and our Easter Egger (Americanas) from the feed store.

I did extensive research before buying my true Ameraucanas and I do not believe these Colloncas are an ancient breed which was kept by Indians any more than the first Araucanas (tufted and rumpess) imported into the US were an ancient breed - although they were also originally claimed as such. It was later discovered that it was a created bird bred by ONE breeder in Chile and he called them Araucanas. He chose only rumpless, blue egg laying and tufted birds from the land race available around him and selectively bred just those birds to create it. The word Collonca means no tail in Chile, and any bird that had no tail was called a collonca. A fellow over there said our Easter Eggers from the hatcheries are closer to pure descendants of the original land race kept by the Indians (note - not a breed - a land race) than the birds they are breeding in Chile now. Apparently some over there have selected and created a breed of only rumpless birds, mixing in other modern breeds to get what they wanted and they call them Colloncas, but I believe they stretch the truth quite a bit to claim it is "one of the original breeds".

The idea of keeping more than one rooster is a very good one - because the rumplesness of the boys leads to low fertility rates. I think the tail helps in "aiming" so you would need more than one rooster to fertilize the flock. The Araucana breeders have discovered this, and some keep tailed birds with their flocks to help with this problem. This is another reason I believe this breed is created - it would not survive in the wild. Natural selection because of low fertility rate in the rumpless boys and higher fertility rate in those with tails has removed rumplessness in our Easter Eggers, and to keep the rumplessness you would have to selectively breed for it.

Pretty birds, but I think I will stick with my Easter Eggers, no fertility problems there!