Josie, is that the place up in Liberty you're talking about with the peachicks? I saw an ad on CL for them & from their pics they did have a lot of them. I'm thinking of maybe sweet talking my DH into going there while we're in KC the first week of August if they still have any, but with that many I would be shocked if they sold them all by then. He might not gripe so bad if we're going for peafowl instead of something else. I was thinking of maybe getting some black shoulder or some other color depending on what my DH wants. I saw that they had quite a few colors listed. I was wanting some more, but different blood line than the ones I have. We want to see pics of yours! Just hang on for a couple more months & I'll bet your GP pup will settle down. It seemed like they just got to this point where they became different dogs all of the sudden. Mine never did anything to the chickens, BUT my alpha rooster laid down the law to them first thing when they came & they didn't dare go near his hens. I had them for 3 days when he just decided if they were staying he was letting them know who was boss & boy did he ever. Those dogs give the roosters a wide berth to this day. The only issue I'm having right now is I have this little young black sex link pullet that can't seem to get in the pen with the rest at time to go in for the night. I'm thinking that Jasmine is trying to herd it into the run, but it goes the opposite direction & she gives chase. Tonight I got after her because in the process of trying to get it to go in she chased it behind the coop & I had to go rescue it because it had gotten wedged inbetween the back wall & some stuff sitting back there, she was terrified. That's the only thing I can think of why Jas would do that is that she knows the chickens are all supposed to go in at a certain time & when this one doesn't get in there she thinks she should get it in. Otherwise she never bothers any of my chickens at all. That turkey pen is just a dog run with chicken wire over the sides up aways so they don't get their heads stuck in the fence, turkeys are kind of bad about that. I had covered the north side already when the dogs were using it & the top has chicken wire & tarp over it. It it rains too much I have to go out & push the water out, it's not the greatest setup, but it's working for now. At least they have a lot more room in there than they had in the pen they started out in. Now the little peachicks are in that one & they have lots of room right now.
Danz, no the whistling is just like you would call a dog or something, really any kind of whistle you can do. I can't whistle too well either, but it didn't matter. You have to watch & listen well because after the first few seconds they quit reacting to it. I know for positive I have two RPs that are toms & the black Spanish is too. I'm just on the fence about 3 of them yet. I will have to do that again & watch & listen closely to the ones in question. The little one I hatched definitely is a hen, she just says bup-bup, she is so cute, she likes to talk to me at the gate. I'm just hoping I have one more hen so I can have my trio to keep. Then I will sell all the rest. I already have my black Spanish sold, I'm just waiting on Candace since she just had two surgeries & is recovering. Your little pea is really cute, I'll bet it will do fine if it got started eating & drinking well, that seems to be the secret & why my little one didn't I don't know. The other ones I got seem to be doing great. I do have them in a pen on the ground, so hopefully they won't have problems from it. I do have some wazine, I wonder how much I would give them in a gallon waterer? I don't know if the guy that had them had wormed them or not. They're still pretty young, do you think it's OK to worm them now?
KarenS, my Swedish Flower Hen eggs have been hatching all day. So far I have 5 hatched, 4 more are pipping & the other 3 aren't doing anything yet, but they're a day early. I can't wait to get them all hatched & see what they all look like, they're so darned cute! There is so much variety with them is what is really cool about them. The older they get too the more color they get. I can see why they were named what they were, it just fits. They're very curious sweet little birds too, I really like them, I'm sure you will too. I can't wait for yours to hatch! How many eggs did you get from Eileen? If yours don't for some reason do well since they were pullet eggs I will be selling some of my chicks later on, but I have to wait & see what all I have first so I can keep what I want for breeding. With these I'm hatching out I should get a pretty good assortment. The problem will come in when I have to choose which to keep & which to sell, that may be really hard.
