California - Northern

[debs_flock]

Laura
I'll be pulling for Lucy. I'm so sorry she is not doing well.

Someone told me that cl roo marans pullets should be sex linked? Has anyone tried it? Looks like I will have those over the winter while Louie 3 grows out unless I steal some white legbar from deb and ninja a roo there too. But to lose Louie's genes... I loved my Louie.. Decisions..

And while I'm thinking what do you get when you cross cream legbar with the white cream legbar? Is it white or crele or just a mess?

I'm debating everything now.

Also does anyone know about getting a pretty trained lgd? I have 1/2 talked mario into it but we are dog novices no way I could train one myself.

The white legbars are just a recessive that pops out of the creams. I had a white cock running in with my group and one white hen. I was getting too many white chicks so I got rid of the roo. I still have the hen in my group, but am currently raising about six white youngsters. The whites are still auto sexing, you just have to look a little closer. They have pale reddish markings as chicks, then molt to solid white.

I do have about four juvenile cream cockerels at the moment, there might be a male white in there too, I haven't looked recently. I'm growing out one of the boys to replace his father, so far his color is very pale like the standard is looking for.
White chicks

A white and a cream roo when they were young.

 

[ronott1]

Yep. That is the chicken. Guess I got the area wrong. I'll have to check the locked thread.

The Thread was re opened. I am sure the Mods are watching it though.

 

[Ali707]

As a followup, The wormer that starts with a V(Valbazen?) is good to use for the second dose 10 days later.

Laura, I hope your girl gets better soon!

Also it is so nice to be here! I am getting frustrated on a certain Black colored, black boned thread. I think I need to stay away from it for a while. They do not seem to learn--it was closed for review a week or so ago and the nastiness is back.

You on this thread are the best!

Life is too short to listen to mean people.

Green Fire Farms is selling Ayam Cemani chickens now. They are very expensive and there is also an person from Florida that has some. She is selling them on ebay. The chicks that hatched from a $1400 hatching egg auction hatched out looking like Marans.

There have been issues between the three or so breeders with them in the US and Green Fire. There have also been mis communications with breeders that have them in Indonesia. There are a lot of passionate folks on that thread.

The pure ones are supposed to lay 60 eggs a year, so that would be 5 egg a month. The cemani coming to the US look like a version from Norway or Sweden--they are crossed and likely lay more eggs than 60 per year.(Shh, do not post that on the Cemani thread...)

Wow all this over a chicken....... we have too much time on our hands! lol

 

[ronott1]

Life is too short to listen to mean people.

Wow all this over a chicken....... we have too much time on our hands! lol

I know!

My best guess is Two years before the Cemani get to a price point that will allow me to get some.

 

[lawatt]

The white legbars are just a recessive that pops out of the creams. I had a white cock running in with my group and one white hen. I was getting too many white chicks so I got rid of the roo. I still have the hen in my group, but am currently raising about six white youngsters. The whites are still auto sexing, you just have to look a little closer. They have pale reddish markings as chicks, then molt to solid white.

I do have about four juvenile cream cockerels at the moment, there might be a male white in there too, I haven't looked recently. I'm growing out one of the boys to replace his father, so far his color is very pale like the standard is looking for.
White chicks

A white and a cream roo when they were young.

great photos! i'm still trying to decide whether to keep Harold (~18 weeks old, maybe?) the CL cockerel -- he seems to have pretty decent coloring, so i'd hate to "waste" him so to speak, but i don't have enough space to have TOO many breeders, and already thinking of having isbars, marans, and campines... but he's cute as a button, so have been keeping him around so far. he's starting to make kazoo-ish noises now...

 

[MossyoakLane]

This is just wrong on so many levels
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

 

[debs_flock]

Quote:
Thanks, the cream is my current roo when he was around six months old, hadn't come into himself yet.

The son I am keeping, has none of the chestnut shading so far.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

This is just wrong on so many levels 
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

Thanks for sharing. What a sad place this country is becoming.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Yes, but we are a small group of volunteers. Please report any posts that you believe break the rules.

 

[debs_flock]

This is just wrong on so many levels
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

Notice the recommendation at the end of the article is "buy local"? I do, out of my own backyard.