California - Northern

[lizanne]

I like Rugged Roost Ranch. If you have RRR on your gates you can just say you had the last laugh when someone asks!

Get it? RRR. Say it fast. Ar-ar-ar! Hopefully someone besides me gets that!

- Or they could use a pirate for the mascot. I love the name Rugged Roost Ranch.

 

[chiqita]

Chickens can carry diseases that affect game birds but not then. If they have it they pass it via the poo.

That is what they are worried about when they say not to house them together. The analogy I use is pregnant women not picking up cat poo. Every cat won't have stuff in its poo but enough do that you want to be aware.

Come pick up my pair of buttons when you come back next weekend! They need a new home I have never had a button lay at my house ever.

 

[Ali707]

- Or they could use a pirate for the mascot. I love the name Rugged Roost Ranch.

Pirates are really in right now. I have a Jolly Roger from Disneyland hanging on my wall! Don't really understand the name. He looks pretty dead to me and not so Jolly....... Maybe the original was Roger and he was a Jolly fellow? Whatever, I suppose I could Google it but where is the fun in that?

 

[chickee]

Do you have any dun or chocolate? Can't remember which colors you hatched. I'd love to see pics.

Do you still have porcelains and are you going to be breeding them?

I have 1 Dun Cuckoo pullet, 1 Dun barred Quail pullet, 1 buff Columbian rooster, 1 Khaki Quail rooster and 1 Khaki Quail pullet from the Boggy Bottom Bantam eggs I hatched. I also have my pair of Porcelains. The porcelains are brother and sister so I need to order some more eggs from BBB. None of the porcelain eggs I incubated from him hatched and those were the ones I REALLY wanted! The consolation is that I got this pair of very rare Khaki Quail and I love this color!

I really want to ad some bantam WC Chocolate Polish. Also Aubery (Boggy Bottom Bantams) has developed a Chocolate Mottled d'Anver that is beautiful. I would like to get some of those too. Looks like one of the Polish chicks the broody hatched a couple of weeks ago is Chocolate colored! Its mother must be my WC Dun Cuckoo hen.

Dun Barred Quail pullet~


Dun Cuckoo pullet~



Buff Columbian rooster~



Khaki Quail rooster~



Khaki Quail pullet~

 

[lawatt]

such lovely birds!! and i love the R-R-R name!!

home from school after a long day, it somehow feels like friday already! decided to take a chance & let all the chicklets out of their pens, for the first time since the last bobcat attack -- i stood guard like a good LGD while they gobbled green grass and scampered around -- then everyone back into their pens for a treat & off to bed. glad they got a little mid-week holiday.

that said, i'm also eying my 16-week-old birchen marans cockerel who's coloring seems way off, he's finally getting some silver coming in but it's nowhere near the amount it should be -- and thinking he's a good size for processing, too. only i've never done it before and nervous to try with no experienced assistance. alternately, i could just sell him to the feed store for $5. or i could keep him a little longer & see if his coloring improves (he's my only marans male, although hoping to hatch some more eggs this fall). hmm.

 

[debs_flock]

such lovely birds!! and i love the R-R-R name!!

home from school after a long day, it somehow feels like friday already! decided to take a chance & let all the chicklets out of their pens, for the first time since the last bobcat attack -- i stood guard like a good LGD while they gobbled green grass and scampered around -- then everyone back into their pens for a treat & off to bed. glad they got a little mid-week holiday.

that said, i'm also eying my 16-week-old birchen marans cockerel who's coloring seems way off, he's finally getting some silver coming in but it's nowhere near the amount it should be -- and thinking he's a good size for processing, too. only i've never done it before and nervous to try with no experienced assistance. alternately, i could just sell him to the feed store for $5. or i could keep him a little longer & see if his coloring improves (he's my only marans male, although hoping to hatch some more eggs this fall). hmm.

Not to push you in that direction, but I've processed quite a few different breeds and the marans have been the tastiest.

Although in the last week we've eaten a polish and a legbar, both great!

Sorry to anyone that doesn't believe in processing their birds, I don't mean to offend

 

[OR4-hmom]

I envy those who are able to process their own birds. I get to involved in the nurturing end to eat my boys, expensive food I'm sending home with others.

I thought I had lost all but 2 of the EO eggs. I candled again today and 2 eggs under my partridge rock are moving! The 2 under the OEGB are both moving also. They should be hatching Friday or Saturday.

I had my first exploding egg this morning, glad it waited until I was out of the coop to pop - scared me so bad I dropped the other egg I was carrying. It was nasty also.

 

[ronott1]

I envy those who are able to process their own birds. I get to involved in the nurturing end to eat my boys, expensive food I'm sending home with others.

I thought I had lost all but 2 of the EO eggs. I candled again today and 2 eggs under my partridge rock are moving! The 2 under the OEGB are both moving also. They should be hatching Friday or Saturday.

I had my first exploding egg this morning, glad it waited until I was out of the coop to pop - scared me so bad I dropped the other egg I was carrying. It was nasty also.

Yuk!

That is one of the worst smells ever....

 

[Chickengirl1304]

such lovely birds!!  and i love the R-R-R name!!

home from school after a long day, it somehow feels like friday already!  decided to take a chance & let all the chicklets out of their pens, for the first time since the last bobcat attack -- i stood guard like a good LGD while they gobbled green grass and scampered around -- then everyone back into their pens for a treat & off to bed.  glad they got a little mid-week holiday.

that said, i'm also eying my 16-week-old birchen marans cockerel who's coloring seems way off, he's finally getting some silver coming in but it's nowhere near the amount it should be -- and thinking he's a good size for processing, too.  only i've never done it before and nervous to try with no experienced assistance.  alternately, i could just sell him to the feed store for $5.  or i could keep him a little longer & see if his coloring improves (he's my only marans male, although hoping to hatch some more eggs this fall).  hmm.

I was nervous too but I watched a few videos on YouTube and got through the first one. Then the second one was a little easier. Pretty soon I did 6 at a time and was so proud

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Quote: Thanks for the pics Candy! They're all great looking but I particularly like the cuckoo. Love the concentric rings on her beard.

Need to find a d'Anvers thread for lurking!

We got 4 Serama pullets at the end of July. They're so calm for such tiny little birds. Great fun and they don't take up much space at all.