Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

It must be the weekend, as promised =)

 

[DoubleMM]

It must be the weekend, as promised =)

If I keep going I'll have a nice photo essay =

Setting eggs, pip and zip, hatching, first days, weekly milestones etc,

 

[sol2go]

If I keep going I'll have a nice photo essay =

Setting eggs, pip and zip, hatching, first days, weekly milestones etc,

I think we are both working with Marans and CL's. I'd be interested to swap progress notes, things to look for, etc. I think you are in SoCal, although I also see you on the NorCal thread?

 

[soldier]

I am going to try to take some photos of my young stock to include those with red/chestnut feathering. Actually I think the color and amount of crest in the birds has really improved since the first generation. Well they may have to much of a crest going on. I will let you guys be the judge. My roo that I use is very light in color

Have a GREAT week!

 

[chicken pickin]

I was out sitting with my flocks this morn and noticed while sitting there with my CL hen(1year old) and a pullet(17/18weeks old) that my pullets are significantly bigger than my hens. I took a few pics though I don't know how well it captured the size difference. I really need to get a scale. Even this years cockerel seems much larger and stockier than his father.

Here are a few of the hen and pullet. The hen on the left, the pullet on the right.

 

[enola]

Look at the difference in the size of the feet and legs !

 

[Metella]

perhaps you gave your pullets some perfect nutrition and weather and environment and they grew like weeds !

Nice pics

 

[GaryDean26]

I was out sitting with my flocks this morn and noticed while sitting there with my CL hen(1year old) and a pullet(17/18weeks old) that my pullets are significantly bigger than my hens....

Awesome. That is a good sign that things are going in the right directions.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Awesome. That is a good sign that things are going in the right directions.

X2. That is a noticeable difference! It's a great thing!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Here are some pics of my birds from today. You can see notes I made on each on my facebook album, https://www.facebook.com/rinda.myers/media_set?set=a.10204515082455016.1073741841.1171519332&type=1 I made it public so anyone with a FB page can see it. Don't really have the time or inclination to repeat all my comments from there. I'll make the photos small so they don't take up as much space.

General comments- I know one if the girls is uncrested (this is Blue Bland girl from my spring chick pictures). But she is very very nice in other ways so she stays. The pullet with the light gold hackles will be coming out, and so will the one with the overgrown comb- I have to try to correct the awful combs on the boys so she can't stay. Ringo is the dominant boy, his comb flops with the points pointing to the right, George is submissive and his comb flops with the points pointing to the left. It's hard to get a clear idea of George's body type because he's always slouching away from Ringo.... but he seems to have a longer back and finer neck barring than Ringo. Ringo has better earlobes and nice dark well defined chest barring.

These boys come from Lisa Helms in Missouri, who recently decided to sell all her stock and focus on her Auracanas.