California - Northern

[zooweemama]

A friend of mine brought me this roo from the local AC. He is quite pretty! Most agree that he is a Spangled Hamburg/mix. What do you think?

OK his color combo is awesome and I flat out love his comb!

 

[zooweemama]

I have to share a couple more. I'm sorry! So many fun shots today while my kids were playing with their friends I got to hang out with the chickens!










Aww I think Gary is so handsome!

 

[ronott1]

I'm sorry. Heavy picture alert. I discovered today that my black orp/marans mix girl- Black Betty and my handsome Marans cockerel are extremely sweet on each other. They are always hanging out together, he makes purr noises when she is with the rest of the harem (it's not his harem) and she runs for him, he shows her tidbits by tapping the ground with his beak and she eats. If she wonders off he panics and looks for her and goes to her. If she is with the harem, he pines for her and stares at her form a distance. I am SO not kidding. My kids are so enamored with the whole Disney movie playing out. LOL Is that normal? He isn't even mating her, just wooing and being sweet.

Well Betty hangs out with him Gary (my Marans) and my BO fella named Chief is the 3rd wheel. When Gary wasn't looking hornball Chief hopped on her. Super ticked off Gary. And here are the pictures. I sat with a zoom lens watching all the chickens for about 30 minutes and it's amazing I caught this drama!









Betty totally took off and ran back to the harem.

And now look at Gary...staring after. I am so not making this up!
Here he is looking sad towards her...



And you can see she went back to the group.



And earlier...you can see how Foghorn (my bantam rooster) feels about Gary's love interest in Betty. Not thrilled at all. Betty apparently does NOT care because she went with Gary anyway. It's like a chicken soap opera!

This is great! You could write a story around these pictures and post them in one of the creative writing contests on BYC.

HappyChooks: Should Amy Beth have a Winner Badge?

 

[chkndaddy]

These are great photos thank you for sharing

 

[PetRock]

Fantastic pics, Amy Beth! I love the one with Gary in hyper attack mode!!! You take amazing pics!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

My Norwegian Jaerhons should start laying any time..They are a smaller breed that lay really nice sized eggs...." Auto Sex!" I really like mine... Super sweet!

such a pretty breed

 

[PetRock]

Those of you who use the plastic numbered bands to mark your birds, what size do you recommend I get for LF Langshans and Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Once my chickens are of any size I haven't had a problem with hawks....and I do have white chickens. But I seem to loose one of the new chicks here and there but the rest of the flock learn really quick to head the roos warnings from then on. It's amazing to watch when the roos sees something overhead, makes his warning call and every runs for cover!
Not in my glass studio but we don't know if the hardwood in the dance studio is ruined. We pulled the carpet in the front of her studio after sucking as much water out of it as we could.

Our son and his family bought a new house and was going to rent out their old one.....I think it was a total loss. They were only out of this house for a couple of months! I constantly worried about them if we had any wind. Thank God they were out!

sorry about your sons house as well.
The problem with the hawks is they may not bother your chickens but if they start they do not stop.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Thank You!

I have a lot of fun doing this.

it is great.
I think with SandHill it depends on the breed but yes they are slow.

 

[Happy Chooks]

HappyChooks: Should Amy Beth have a Winner Badge?

I'll have to check. I do know that the badges take a while, it's a manual process.