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[Fire Ant Farm]

Her daughter, Joan Jett, has taken after her mother, and has become Supervisor-of-Poop-Scooping and overall Queen-of-the-Lap:




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[rottlady]

Joan jet is just adorable

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Joan jet is just adorable

She is SO friendly. I haven't encouraged it and am not trying for "pets" - I just sit with them so I can watch/observe them and so they are accustomed to me if I need to treat or handle them. But she has decided that she LOOOOOOOOVES me.

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[duluthralphie]

You know, something else that may factor into it is temperature. Someone (ChicKat?) mentioned that she suspected that high temperatures during a chicken's young life may lead to big combs. Heaven knows my birds (girls and boy) have huge combs here in South Texas, and they were doing their "growing up" in 90-100F heat. And @duluthralphie was initially totally perplexed by big combs on my pullets because his pullets/hens (in Minnesota) had very small combs.

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This is extremely interesting, I was noticing my January hatch and all the females are virtually combless with huge hair dos!.

While my later hatches have combs, nothing like yours! But still combs.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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So we should all plan our hatches so they come to maturity in cold weather?

 

[TBirdsTheWord33]

This is Paula (of blessed memory) - check out her whack-o big floppy comb! - Ant Farm

Her daughter, Joan Jett, has taken after her mother, and has become Supervisor-of-Poop-Scooping and overall Queen-of-the-Lap: [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] - Ant Farm

Paula and Joan Jett remind me so much of my Arlene and Rose. Like Paula, they came from Meyer and are also heavily melanized "dark beauties." I wouldn't have them any other way. My brother's family has a CL pullet from Meyer, as well, but she's much lighter in coloration.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Paula and Joan Jett remind me so much of my Arlene and Rose. Like Paula, they came from Meyer and are also heavily melanized "dark beauties." I wouldn't have them any other way. My brother's family has a CL pullet from Meyer, as well, but she's much lighter in coloration.

Yeah, my original three pullets were all from Meyer and while Paula is the darkest, all three were melanized, I believe.

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[ChicKat]

Interesting about the comb/crest combination -- do you think that they can adapt that quickly -- why not -
The original idea that cold weather contributes to smaller combs came from someone in the Netherlands (or maybe one of the Scandinavian countries -- and I cannot remember who it was. ) Whoever it was recommended cool temps and bright sunlight on cockerels to make the combs a bit smaller.

:O)

ETA -- oh and BTW - since the late Paula's comb doesn't obstruct her vision it is still according to SOP.........

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Interesting about the comb/crest combination -- do you think that they can adapt that quickly -- why not -
The original idea that cold weather contributes to smaller combs came from someone in the Netherlands (or maybe one of the Scandinavian countries -- and I cannot remember who it was. ) Whoever it was recommended cool temps and bright sunlight on cockerels to make the combs a bit smaller.

:O)

ETA -- oh and BTW - since the late Paula's comb doesn't obstruct her vision it is still according to SOP.........

Yes, that was what I was told. And another person told me that as it was in part a mark of hormones, it was "maternal" to have a floppy comb and a good thing (indeed, she was first of the CLs to come into lay, and was the most reliable layer...)

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[ChicKat]

Yes, that was what I was told. And another person told me that as it was in part a mark of hormones, it was "maternal" to have a floppy comb and a good thing (indeed, she was first of the CLs to come into lay, and was the most reliable layer...)

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There you go , and conversely - a big comb on a male is 'macho' -- like a big mane on a lion -- and the females will like him the best. Does it indicate higher fertility - due to more testosterone......

ahh chickens.