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[chiqita]

@chiqita Here is a picture of the Showgirl I took today. She is soooo cute!!!!! Edited to correct spelling errors

I stole the pic to use to brag off fb!!

Nice variety!

/drool!!

 

[TheKeeper]

@chiqita Here is a picture of the Showgirl I took today. She is soooo cute!!!!!

Adorable! A frizzled showgirl is definitely on my list. I love my frizzled cochin & tolbunt polish!

 

[TheKeeper]

Nice variety!

Thank you! These orps are silly birds. Wary but oh-so-curious. Major treat hogs.
I have most for sale. They hatched March 28th (+ or -).
- Barred (split to chocolate cuckoo): 2 boys, 2 girls
- Jubilee: 2 boys, 2 girls
- Lemon Cuckoo: 2 boys, 1 girl
Pullet

Lighter cockerel

Darker cockerel

 

[debs_flock]

Lisa, your chick is turning out great, beautiful.

 

[Audio51]

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I will poke around and see what I can find. Was it this one by chance? http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0756e/T0756E00.HTM

Quote: She is definitley an ham. She poses quite nicely. What is the difference between a sizzle and a frizzle?

Here are 2 Penedesencas, an Amelia, & another chick enjoying the grass & dirt:

How cute! I need to get a box for dust bathing in with my babies

Quote: LOL!!!! Thats great. I feel honored you wanted to share my picture.

And just so you know......if you wanted this bird back at any point I would have no problem with that. If she has bloodlines you wanted to keep going we can get her back to you. I can't have roos so she will not reproduce here.

Quote: LOL!!! They look like they stuck their beaks in a light socket.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Um, what is a UofA blue? They are very pretty!

 

[TheKeeper]

Here's a comparison of a frizzle vs a smooth feather Tolbunt polish. Both are pullets, I think.
These are from @debs_flock .

 

[tls_ranch]

 

 
I usually do three at a sitting..... ( Start to finish for the three is usually two hours,....

How much time from set-up thru clean-up would you say it takes you for three chickens?

It takes me two hours, but since DH does the kill and tosses the trash with feathers, etc. and puts away the outside stuff, maybe add another 15 minutes.  But literally, the last hour I'm picking at every minute pin feather.  Partly because most of the birds I process have dark feathers, but most because I'm OCD.  I'm sure we've all eaten LOTS of pin feathers in store bought birds without even knowing it.

I know on my recent trip to the UK, I swear there were still some major feathers left in the chicken parts I bought at Tesco's.

I skin the birds I process because the dark pin feathers and usually the meat bees find me too quickly to do anything else.

As for pin feathers, I guess we probably don't see the white ones that much in store bought chicken. But, I still can't bring myself to eat Aidells chicken apple sausage even after 3 years. I cut into one and found a whole, white body feather inside the sausage.

Trisha

 

[debs_flock]

Yeah, that would gross me out.

It was bad enough at Tesco's I bought a package of chicken wings, there were still primary feathers attached.

Now if I found a feather inside a sausage, it would give me serious concerns about what else was in there.

 

[chiqita]

I will poke around and see what I can find.    Was it this one by chance?  http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0756e/T0756E00.HTM
She is  definitley an ham.  She poses quite nicely.    What is the difference between a sizzle and a frizzle?

How cute!  I need to get a box for dust bathing in with my babies

LOL!!!!   Thats great.  I feel honored you wanted to share my picture.  

And just so you know......if you wanted this bird back at any point I would have no problem with that.  If she has bloodlines you wanted to keep going we can get her back to you.  I can't have roos so she will not reproduce here.

LOL!!!  They look like they stuck their beaks in a light socket.

You have to choose a sex on frizzles so all mine are boys.
Also frizzle is the name of what happens to the feathers.
Since they do not have shredded/silked/non hooked feathers they are an offshhot of silkies . Sizzles is the name of the offshoot.