Cream Legbars

[lonnyandrinda]

Good morning Rinda!

I have 2 questions for you:
1) How do you get your wee chicks to stay so orderly?
                      Mine are like little roadrunners ( I have a hard enough time getting one to sit for a photo) and yours are so obedient--please share your secret!
2) Do you by any chance weigh your chicks?
                      I weigh them daily for the first week then every few days and chart their growth. I am wondering if your humongous one as from a bigger egg, or hatched out bigger to start, or is just a piglet and growing faster? Will for sure be interesting to see if this is an indication of final weight (bigger/faster growing chicks=bigger adults) as this could help determine which chicks to cull when they are little if you are looking for size and dont want to grow out large hatches.

Lol I don't expect next week's photo shoot to go so smoothly. But it is hard to compare them in individual poses. I never bring them in the house so I think they were confused and scared. It helps to have the camera settings ready, then hold my hands/arms over the chicks until they "settle" then move my arms and snap a quick pic or two.

I did not get weights and I am so busy I didn't want to commit to weighing every weeks so I decided not to stress about it this round. I do know Runt hatched from a pullet egg.

I am thinking there is a hatchet laying out of camera view....

Haha!

 

[CibolaChooks]

Good morning Rinda!

I have 2 questions for you:
1) How do you get your wee chicks to stay so orderly?
                      Mine are like little roadrunners ( I have a hard enough time getting one to sit for a photo) and yours are so obedient--please share your secret!
2) Do you by any chance weigh your chicks?
                      I weigh them daily for the first week then every few days and chart their growth. I am wondering if your humongous one as from a bigger egg, or hatched out bigger to start, or is just a piglet and growing faster? Will for sure be interesting to see if this is an indication of final weight (bigger/faster growing chicks=bigger adults) as this could help determine which chicks to cull when they are little if you are looking for size and dont want to grow out large hatches.

out of the three boys I kept 1 grew extremely fast got twice as big as the others by the second month and matured first. he is now the smallest of the three. Even though he didn't end up bigger I hope his offspring will have that fast growth. CL seem to grow so slow I want to keep that trait in my flock

 

[GaryDean26]

out of the three boys I kept 1 grew extremely fast got twice as big as the others by the second month and matured first. he is now the smallest of the three. Even though he didn't end up bigger I hope his offspring will have that fast growth. CL seem to grow so slow I want to keep that trait in my flock

Very Enlightening.

 

[blackbirds13]

There was a huge ruckus going on outside so went to the door to take a look and ... thank goodness I replaced the aviary netting this fall. Some one was looking for a mid-winger snack me thinks.





and off he goes! No take out today for Mr. Hawk. Hope the netting keeps holding up - another Nor'easter on the way tomorrow. Spring can't come soon enough for me.

 

[HaplessRunner]

There was a huge ruckus going on outside so went to the door to take a look and ... thank goodness I replaced the aviary netting this fall. Some one was looking for a mid-winger snack me thinks.





and off he goes! No take out today for Mr. Hawk. Hope the netting keeps holding up - another Nor'easter on the way tomorrow. Spring can't come soon enough for me.

I agree with you, spring cannot get here soon enough. We expect to be pounded pretty heavily here in Virginia tomorrow.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I'm so sorry for you guys that keep getting pounded by the storms- we've had it bad this year mostly with constant low temps which we are not used to and lots of small snowstorms. We are used to several weeks in the 40s for highs and then maybe a week here and there that we stay below freezing, rarely snow before Christmas, and maybe 1-3 ice storms or snowstorms in January. We get a break this week though- after today we have 10 days straight near or above 60 for the highs! Hope you guys get a break soon too!

 

[chicken pickin]

There was a huge ruckus going on outside so went to the door to take a look and ... thank goodness I replaced the aviary netting this fall. Some one was looking for a mid-winger snack me thinks.





and off he goes! No take out today for Mr. Hawk. Hope the netting keeps holding up - another Nor'easter on the way tomorrow. Spring can't come soon enough for me.

Oh boy you have some brave hawks. I have not seen one come soo close before. And I agree, Spring cant come soon enough. I am not looking forward to more snow tomorrow.

 

[CibolaChooks]

My hawks dont come close but the prairie falcon does

 

[blackbirds13]

This my 2nd youngest boy. He is sired by Macbeth. Dark barred all over. Very clean Secondaries and very little chesnut color except on shoulder areas.






I love this photo of him here. I may try mating him back to his mom this spring.


This is my youngest boy - out of Macbeth. He looks very light in the hackle and saddle with little overall chestnut.


First is the older dark barred, then one of the older boys with an overall lighter tone. His barring is the same dark gray just more separated with the white. He has the barring I like the most but hard to see here, and last is lil' bit. My youngest boy. He is also dark barred out of Macbeth






and lastly the oldest of the bunch



ETA: The young guns are picking on poor Macbeth I think. His comb and the like are showing some match ups. I really need to think about re-cooping soon. I'm just trying to hold out until NPIP the last week of February. Then.... I can start thinking about hatching and testing for fertility.

 

[CibolaChooks]

I really like the first one. I wonder if this is what the wing Bay should look like. At first I thought Jills was correct with a solid white wing Bay but I'm not so sure that's correct. I like the way his bay looks barred

This my 2nd youngest boy. He is sired by Macbeth. Dark barred all over. Very clean Secondaries and very little chesnut color except on shoulder areas. I love this photo of him here. I may try mating him back to his mom this spring. This is my youngest boy - out of Macbeth. He looks very light in the hackle and saddle with little overall chestnut. First is the older dark barred, then one of the older boys with an overall lighter tone. His barring is the same dark gray just more separated with the white. He has the barring I like the most but hard to see here, and last is lil' bit. My youngest boy. He is also dark barred out of Macbeth and lastly the oldest of the bunch ETA: The young guns are picking on poor Macbeth I think. His comb and the like are showing some match ups. I really need to think about re-cooping soon. I'm just trying to hold out until NPIP the last week of February. Then.... I can start thinking about hatching and testing for fertility.