California - Northern

[redneckchic]

Any Dutch Bantam breeders... preferably Northern CA?

 

[redneckchic]

Any Dutch Bantam breeders... preferably Northern CA?

Or just anyone selling a hen?

 

[Sirracha]

Wet feed? Interesting...How do you do that? Is it a special kind of feed?

Just add water to it, like oatmeal. They stay hydrated and the sour smelly poop goes away. More nutritious as its easier for them to digest. As they get older you can also do fermented feed which is letting the wet feed sit around for awhile. It makes their waddles more red and their yolks more yellow and bigger.

 

[sewandgrow]

Or just anyone selling a hen?

Try calling the local 4H office & get the numbers of your local 4H poultry leaders. They may be able to give you some leads.

 

[chickee]

Thanks. I'll have to request darker ones when I get more!
How do you tell the difference between blue & black? They looked pretty much the same to me in your pictures.

Note how the face on the black laced red chick is very dark. The blues have yellow blotches and more pronounced eye liner. Splash chicks don't have the eye liner.

Here is a picture of my Black Laced Red hen with 4 blue chicks and the 1 black chick (right front) to give you an idea what to look for

BCollie, I agree with Chickee. Your chicks will grow to be splash. I would look for dark charcoal down on legs and fluff on the next chicks if you want blues. You should have no trouble placing the splashes, most people want them.
Here is my blue hen.

She is very pretty! I kept my favorite blue laced red hen and have a few eggs incubating for the friend that has the rest of my BLRWs. They are one of my favorite breeds! Now I will have the SLWs from the same friend. Did a test hatch for her (fertility is low, the boy needs more practice!) and hatched the one chick and have 3 more due to hatch on the 18th.

Here is my girl~

 

[tommysgirl]

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Yeah! Glad this is finally working out

If you have a crate that is not overly large I would move her and the eggs into that on a thick bed of shavings, Cover the whole shebang with a blanket so it stays very dark. If she will continue to sit on them for the trip, you can just leave her in the crate when you get to your place and let her hatch them in there. I have even moved nesting finches that way and they continued to incubate and hatch in the new location. I am worried if you take the eggs away from her for the ride she will be stressed and not go back to them.

Thanks! My mom and I will drive down tonight and they are expecting me...so glad I was able to be proactive instead of sitting back and waiting for the girl to gt back to me and even gladder that it worked. I have a med crate like what you would use for a corgi, I was going to switch them into a broody box but now I will just put the whole crate into the quarantine area

I read an article yesterday about chicks that are BOTH sexes, male and females cells, was very very interesting! And Franklin is a brother from another mother to dear Orlando I guess, lol!




HUZZAH! I would do this at night or dark if you can, otherwise cover her and the area with a sheet, put her in a dark dog crate with shavings on the bottom and straw on top, and just put her in with ALL the eggs. Then candle later. Keep the dog crate covered all the way home. I would not try that with others, but a broody silkie wont worry too much if you move her. but keep the crate LOCKED with food and water in it when you get home, and supervise her getting out for broody poo for 3 days.

YES! get her. If you cant keep her ill ninja her, Peaches just became necterines this week, I need to aquire 3-5 silkie/showgirl hens to get my numbers back in kilter.. i'm looking at YOU deb!

Gonna pack her a blanket

and I have shavings and straw so that is good too. OK I will keep her in that makes sense too. I work but can come home at lunch to let her out to poo is that how you would do it?

I think I will get the other hen only if this girl doesn't really seem broody. I really can't fully trust the word of the girl who is my contact...she has said many things that make me go "hmmmmmmmmm" If she is broody will she be sitting on the eggs puffed and a little crabby? Will she growl and do the rapid fire buc buc buc buc buc thing?

If I brought the other girl home wouldn't she be odd girl out during setting and even after?

Note how the face on the black laced red chick is very dark. The blues have yellow blotches and more pronounced eye liner. Splash chicks don't have the eye liner.

Here is a picture of my Black Laced Red hen with 4 blue chicks and the 1 black chick (right front) to give you an idea what to look for

She is very pretty! I kept my favorite blue laced red hen and have a few eggs incubating for the friend that has the rest of my BLRWs. They are one of my favorite breeds! Now I will have the SLWs from the same friend. Did a test hatch for her (fertility is low, the boy needs more practice!) and hatched the one chick and have 3 more due to hatch on the 18th.

Here is my girl~

Such a pretty girl chickee BLRW are on my someday list.

Time to face the day see you all!

 

[lawatt]

over the years I have had 4 hens of different breeds turn into what looks like a male with male sickle and saddle feathers. ..and a crow. Spurs on a normal laying hen is not unusual.

Walt

how interesting! since campines are hen-feathered, i'm not seeing any difference in the feathers on my intersex chicken -- but this morning, as if to prove the point, s/he tried to crow -- doesn't sound like a regular male crow at all, more like a person shouting for help.

 

[fowlman01]

how interesting! since campines are hen-feathered, i'm not seeing any difference in the feathers on my intersex chicken -- but this morning, as if to prove the point, s/he tried to crow -- doesn't sound like a regular male crow at all, more like a person shouting for help.

The 4 I have seen did not have a traditional crow either, but you could tell that they were trying to crow.

w.

 

[mendocinosunris]

Arrg!!! The power went out this morning. No telling when it will be back. I bundled up the incubator & brought it to work with me.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Arrg!!! The power went out this morning. No telling when it will be back. I bundled up the incubator & brought it to work with me.

Eggs wanting a little field trip huh.