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[debs_flock]

Yes zoo. You are a book!

Speaking of it does anyone know besides peeping what are the symptoms if being too cold? I remember breathing but looking for things to warn people about.

I have to take some videos of nutmeg trying to get into the house. She can run fly and dodge like a mad thing.

Piling up in a heap instead of moving around the brooder is the primary for me. Same as spreading out too far is too hot.

 

[lizanne]

So now I have questions.....
I thought this chicken was a Gold Laced Wyandotte, but it looks a lot like Chickee's Black Laced Red. What's the difference?

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

Wowza!

 

[zooweemama]

I just want to add.......................you have had EVERYTHING happen! If it can happen with a chicken, it has happened to you

I have hundreds of chickens, 4-5 dozen eggs per day and I've never seen anything like that. That is no meat spot I've ever seen before.

Seriously! rofl! I forgot to mention this was a duck egg. But I cannot imagine that makes a huge difference. I was *gag* almost half tempted to eat to see what it tasted like. Bleck

Yes zoo. You are a book!

Speaking of it does anyone know besides peeping what are the symptoms if being too cold? I remember breathing but looking for things to warn people about.

I have to take some videos of nutmeg trying to get into the house. She can run fly and dodge like a mad thing.

haha I know. I have some seriously off luck!

So now I have questions.....
I thought this chicken was a Gold Laced Wyandotte, but it looks a lot like Chickee's Black Laced Red. What's the difference?

Is it really young? Body shape kinda looks really slim?

 

[debs_flock]

So now I have questions.....
I thought this chicken was a Gold Laced Wyandotte, but it looks a lot like Chickee's Black Laced Red. What's the difference?

That's a gold laced bird. Gold refers to the base color (in this case a very reddish gold), laced refers to the color around the edge of the feather. Usually if it just says laced, it means black.

Example of silver laced (look at the body feathers, not the crest)

 

[gryeyes]

I'm working up in Half Moon Bay this week and these bananas are EVERYWHERE! Eeeekk.....

Ah, but the Banana Slug is the mascot for U.C. Santa Cruz!


...probably one of the strangest mascots on record.....

 

[zooweemama]

A teeny update on my wounded Leghorn. I have no idea what happened but it was def a wound. She is still gimping around but not as badly. Def improved. Eating, drinking, resting more than usual but then she will totally run around and forage periodically. Tonight she laid a shell less egg. A first for her. Her egg yesterday was fine. I am going to chalk it up to her wound for now as otherwise is actually doing better each day.

I took a couple pics of our goslings. We have a Buff African Dewlap (about 5 weeks old) and he/she came from Holderreads (score from CL) and she is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. We named her Waffles. We have no idea what her gender is. All birds are she until proven otherwise here though lol. Isn't she gorgeous? Like seriously!



And here is Sandy- our leetle baby. She is a little over a week old. She is the offspring of our pair of Brown Africans. She is darling and friendly and snuggles. Love her!


We also have a stray Canadian gosling that has adopted our flock. We discovered her chasing our gander around. Absolutely had him freaked out. He was running away from her all over. We heard him honking half the day, not really thinking much of it as we didn't see her (she was so small) until much later that evening. We could hardly toss her out so she runs around with our birds, eats our food, swims in our pond, goes to bed with our birds...but free to leave at anytime. We have as little contact with her as possible (only last night did I need to touch her because she scraped her beak and it was bleeding) - I neosporin'd her beak and sent her on her way. I keep hoping her mama and daddy come back for her.

Sorry I've been absent. A little buried under all these babies. I have another batch of chicks and ducks and 1 gosling due in a week. Ahhh! I will be taking a rest after that. I so welcome some peace.

 

[lizanne]

That's a gold laced bird. Gold refers to the base color (in this case a very reddish gold), laced refers to the color around the edge of the feather. Usually if it just says laced, it means black.

Example of silver laced (look at the body feathers, not the crest)

Is it really young? Body shape kinda looks really slim?

Thanks!! She (I hope, but her comb is looking pretty red) is 12 weeks old. The part about the color lacing makes sense. I have a gold laced, 3 silver laced, and the 2 baby Blue laced reds..... lots of Wyandotte variety.

 

[threadgeek]

One with ducklings (two hatches), two with turkeys and three sets of chicks (four hatches).

The turkeys just jump in and out at will................they need to move outside. Last night I caught a chick out strolling around the room too! LOL A couple of weeks ago, I had eight bins in the house, the heat out of that room was unbearable, I didn't even like to go in there. Some of the chicks were to the stage of jumping onto the edge of their bin, looking next door, jumping down, eating, jumping back up and going back to their own bin. They OWNED the place, LOL They are now all in a shed growout pen. I believe there are marans there too.

This sounds like mayhem! Any chance you would be willing to share a picture of this chick madness??? And your chamois campine project sounds so pretty!

Here's the typical meat spot that I've seen and found on the internet

Here's an OMG one that I found on the internet. I think if I found this, it would put me off eggs.

My DH told me he found one the size of a dime from one of our eggs.

Yucky, but I'm relieved to know it isn't serious.

Chickee - beautiful birds!

I've been out of town for the past 5 days and returned today to my 2nd ranking hen being broody! She was so sweet and allowed me to check under her for eggs. I didn't have any decent fake eggs to put under her so tried some cat toys (hey, they were round and about the right size) but they ended up shoved to the edge of the box.

The babies are 8 weeks old and in the big girl coop, but they still shriek and run if a big girl gets close. How long does it take for everyone to settle down??? Its been a week and I'm afraid I may have rushed the flock merge since I wanted to do it before I left. They are also all sleeping in the next boxes, should I try anything to change this?

Cute image - I watched everyone settle down to roost for the evening today and one by one they ALL crammed into ONE nest box!!! 10 big babies in one 15"x15" box... it was one pile of cuteness! I will need to get a picture tomorrow.

 

[threadgeek]

Beautiful ducks and good job at trying to keep the canadian gosling wild. I'm also glad your hen seems to be doing ok.

Nikon - cool coop!

Now to catch up on some Game of Thrones!!!