California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

Sybil is the most curious of my girls; I like her a lot! I have a hard time getting good pictures of them though... your Rose seems very interested in having her beard photographed!

If I sit outside to drink my tea in the am...which I like to do...Rose is on my chair/lap instantly she stares at my face and I get nervous because I think she's going to go all Alfred Hitchcock on my eyeballs. The look she has in this pic is the same one she gives when she is examining me up close...like three inches from my face.

I have
Rose Blanche and Dorothy...Blanche is my CA Grey.
Ozzie and Harriet
Lilly and Petunia

and a bunch of other randomly named girls but those are my sets.

 

[tommysgirl]

Fabulously gorgeous! Makes me look out at my flock and say..."Ya know what I NEED...more silver/grey/blue!" First proven broody to get all motherly gets some SPR and Silver Campine eggs. But maybe I need Isbars too...hmmmm

ooops, almost forgot the beautiful silver campines, who are the ones i set out to photograph in the first place!



anna -- notice the blue ears and feet!



elsa and anna together



not sure which one of them this is, but grabbing something delicious!

 

[ronott1]

i have NO idea -- i have enough trouble keeping up with the eggs from the 11 layers (well, minus two broodies right now) that i have currently! but perhaps i can swap or sell some more with people from school -- and i have a vague idea of trying to breed the campines and/or the isbars -- maybe even some marans... who knows! i've come a long way in just a year of keeping chickens!

Well, you could make some amazing Olive Egg layers.


The Campines would be a great project. You could partner with Deb--trade your stock off every couple of years which has proven to be a great way to improve a flock quickly. Apparently a group did this with Buckeyes.

Isbars would be a great project too. It is amazing how we get into these new projects.

 

[lawatt]

Well, you could make some amazing Olive Egg layers.


The Campines would be a great project. You could partner with Deb--trade your stock off every couple of years which has proven to be a great way to improve a flock quickly. Apparently a group did this with Buckeyes.

Isbars would be a great project too. It is amazing how we get into these new projects.

i absolutely can't wait to see what both the isbar and the isbar/marans cross eggs look like, they should be interestingly different shades of green -- and having both an isbar boy AND a marans boy definitely opens up a lot of possibilities. that said, i've never bred ANYthing before, so who knows -- maybe i'll decide i'm content with just egg layers after all!

also, if i keep harold, then i'll have one CL boy, one CL girl, and the two amelias -- also perhaps the start of an interesting project... and with the campines hatching soon, another possible project! too many!

i have the feeling i'll not end up keeping max the SFH rooster, even though he is a perfect gentleman of a rooster -- see, even typing this, i feel bad suggesting i might not keep him, since he's such a polite guy, both to me & the hens. but i seem to be drawn to all these smaller chickens with dark eyes... will see what the young cockerels grow up to be, personality-wise. that will probably end up being the deciding factor.

 

[lawatt]

Fabulously gorgeous! Makes me look out at my flock and say..."Ya know what I NEED...more silver/grey/blue!" First proven broody to get all motherly gets some SPR and Silver Campine eggs. But maybe I need Isbars too...hmmmm

i'm a real sucker for anything silvery -- my house has silver (galvanized metal) siding (actually a choice made by the previous owner, but i love it), i've got a silvery-colored cat (along with a black and a tortoiseshell), and on Flickr i run a special group for silvery-toned photographs. when i was a kid, when we had that 64-color crayon box, i always picked the silver crayon first. so some of my chicken breed choices make some kind of logical sense...

 

[tommysgirl]

Look who got tired of being in the coop.


Chick Kindergarten lesson #1

 

[ChickNmamma]

Look who got tired of being in the coop.


Chick Kindergarten lesson #1

Wow, great teacher. None of mine could ever get them all to line up in a row like that...

 

[OR4-hmom]

Adorable little family there, then they become teenagers and Mom will know nothing.

 

[tommysgirl]

i'm a real sucker for anything silvery -- my house has silver (galvanized metal) siding (actually a choice made by the previous owner, but i love it), i've got a silvery-colored cat (along with a black and a tortoiseshell), and on Flickr i run a special group for silvery-toned photographs. when i was a kid, when we had that 64-color crayon box, i always picked the silver crayon first. so some of my chicken breed choices make some kind of logical sense...

I like that! I started with black white and red so this year added mostly shades of brown with a little more white tossed in. The EEs and my hatch mostly turned up browns too. I always picked the turquoise/aqua marine crayon first It's still my favorite color

 

[tommysgirl]

Just looked more closely at Isbars and yep...I am hooked. They are beautiful!