Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

Maidenwolf after looking at these chicks again you could very well have some silver laced and gold laced Wyandottes there. I just noticed the eye make up. The one you said white cochin looks more like a buff cochin.
Hawkeye I remember your bands. I don't have anywhere near here to get them. I have lots of the metal numbered bands on hand. I just might have to change them out later if they grow a lot. Other than that I have little colored tywraps I could use to identify breeds, but I really want to get more organized with the numbering system so I can track breeding in the expensive birds later. I figured if I did it all at once then I wouldn't put it off later. I really want to use sequential numbers so I can just look at a number and use a spread sheet to identify the bird. It would help with my NPIP records as well.
Spooncreek I have copper Marans but won't have new chicks until late spring. A true chocolate orpington would be a bantam, but I see several project orpingtons where they are breeding chocolate to black large fowl and getting a certain number of chocolate colored birds from the mating. I know several people are working on this project. The problem is the offspring won't produce 100% chocolate chicks without breeding and culling for a few generations. If it were me I'd wait a year or so and let the breeding catch up to get nicer chocolates. But then when it comes to Orpingtons I am getting more and more picky. I do have some plain old small hatchery buffs though, and they are great birds. I'm not a bird snob for sure.

 

[mommahen10]

So was the avatar a Mandarin or a Wood duck? It is beautiful, I wonder if he’d think I lost it if I had some of those out on the pond.

Thanks for think link Hawkeye, I joined.

Thanks Trish, I will check them out.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Maidenwolf after looking at these chicks again you could very well have some silver laced and gold laced Wyandottes there. I just noticed the eye make up. The one you said white cochin looks more like a buff cochin.
Hawkeye I remember your bands. I don't have anywhere near here to get them. I have lots of the metal numbered bands on hand. I just might have to change them out later if they grow a lot. Other than that I have little colored tywraps I could use to identify breeds, but I really want to get more organized with the numbering system so I can track breeding in the expensive birds later. I figured if I did it all at once then I wouldn't put it off later. I really want to use sequential numbers so I can just look at a number and use a spread sheet to identify the bird. It would help with my NPIP records as well.
Spooncreek I have copper Marans but won't have new chicks until late spring. A true chocolate orpington would be a bantam, but I see several project orpingtons where they are breeding chocolate to black large fowl and getting a certain number of chocolate colored birds from the mating. I know several people are working on this project. The problem is the offspring won't produce 100% chocolate chicks without breeding and culling for a few generations. If it were me I'd wait a year or so and let the breeding catch up to get nicer chocolates. But then when it comes to Orpingtons I am getting more and more picky. I do have some plain old small hatchery buffs though, and they are great birds. I'm not a bird snob for sure.

they are all sold out of wyandottes and none of the chicks have a wyandotte comb. I looked at that. I was thinking buff or white on that cochin.
Also I was thinking maybe my duccles might be crossed with your olandsk? They have so much white. Is this possible at all?

 

[ocap]

my avatar is a Mandarin but I do not have any, I just have an appreciation for fine art

 

[chicken danz]

So was the avatar a Mandarin or a Wood duck? It is beautiful, I wonder if he’d think I lost it if I had some of those out on the pond.

Thanks for think link Hawkeye, I joined.

Thanks Trish, I will check them out.

Mandarin as ocap said. You could have some but you'd have to have them pinioned. They are very good flyers and not native to the U.S. they come from China. The wood ducks are native but they would fly South.

my avatar is a Mandarin but I do not have any, I just have an appreciation for fine art

They are fine art. Beautiful birds with sweet noises No quacking just funny little noises.

Maidenwolf I really didn't think I had let Monkey ( my olandsk rooster) out of his cage when those hens were laying then, but I must have. I am thinking those look very olandsk spotted. You are going to have some awesome spotted little babies there. Probably much prettier than a mille fleur ever thought of being. I hope it isn't disappointing if that is they case. You could buy about 35 d'uccles for what you could buy one olandsk and that would be cheap. I know they had the feathered feet and there was no other possibilities at that time. Are they all that spotted or just a couple of them? I think your daughter just wanted pretty pets anyway didn't she? Maybe you could call them d'ulandsk.

 

[sharol]

Yesterday, my Delaware laid a huge egg. It is 6 1/8" in circumference and 3" long -- 96 grams. Yikes. Glad I don't lay eggs.

 

[chicken danz]

Was that a 2 or 3 yolker? I couldn't tell for sure in the picture. Maybe she was catching up after a rest and trying to consolidate her efforts.

 

[michelleml]

Hi , thought i would introduce myself.. i am jeannie.. i live 60 miles straight east of wichita. i have started raising silkies,lavendar orpingtons , and americanas. i also have a few mutt chickens who arent laying right now. i started hatching eggs last summer from some well known breeders and i think i have some beautiful chickens.. well i am really not sure but of course i love them. i am trying to study all the good traits they are suppose to have and my daughter in law has been documenting their growth and progress. right now i am hatching some silkies from catdance and lavendar orpingtons from the Hink-JC lines.. hopefully they will hatch and turn out well. Looking forward to reading all about everyone here on this thread and maybe even meeting some of you in the future..

Hey,another Kansan here. I live a few hours NW of Wichita.
Looking forward to getting to know all of you.

We have Rhode Island Reds.

Looks like a great assortment Wichita Kidd. Yay!!!

Oh Trish, I so hope ya’ll aren’t getting this crud too. It’s just been rampid.

Apparently, my dh went somewhere today and sent me this pic and said that he bought it. I can't wait to see it for real when they pick it up tomorrow.


I wonder whatever I shall do with it???? Hmmm, maybe it’s a good time to order some chicks.

those are nice could they be used for a brooder?

He was running from me....but here are a couple of distant pictures I snapped of him.

Yesterday, my Delaware laid a huge egg. It is 6 1/8" in circumference and 3" long -- 96 grams. Yikes. Glad I don't lay eggs.

poor girl

 

[sharol]

LOL it was a 2 yolker, but one of the yolks didn't survive cracking the egg.

She has occasionally laid these monsters.

 

[checoukan]

Mandarin as ocap said. You could have some but you'd have to have them pinioned. They are very good flyers and not native to the U.S. they come from China. The wood ducks are native but they would fly South.
They are fine art. Beautiful birds with sweet noises No quacking just funny little noises.

Maidenwolf I really didn't think I had let Monkey ( my olandsk rooster) out of his cage when those hens were laying then, but I must have. I am thinking those look very olandsk spotted. You are going to have some awesome spotted little babies there. Probably much prettier than a mille fleur ever thought of being. I hope it isn't disappointing if that is they case. You could buy about 35 d'uccles for what you could buy one olandsk and that would be cheap. I know they had the feathered feet and there was no other possibilities at that time. Are they all that spotted or just a couple of them? I think your daughter just wanted pretty pets anyway didn't she? Maybe you could call them d'ulandsk.

OH!! DANZ!!! Perfect!!!