JJ I hear ya...all feed has or is going up...corn went up 6.00 a bushel. Drought and corn do not mix. *sigh*
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Glad you little guy has been caught. And thanks for the answer about the egg laying....mine are 3.5 months old so it will be a while.
Hope you are not drowning!
Here are pictures of my little d'Anver pen babies at 3.5 months. Counter clockwise from upper right
Mille Fleur roo, ? may be a BBR or Ginger roo, Buff Columbian Roo, Mille Fleur roo, Black pullet, tail of a Buff Columbian pullet and a Mille Fleur pullet.
The three Porcelain are on the right...Thats a Spangled OEGB lurking in the back left.
Same pen I don't know for sure what variety the one on the top left is...maybe a Ginger roo.
The Mille Fleurs are varied in colors...darker to lighter and more or less white, but all are healthy and spunky.
And three pullets that wer in the other pen...
I think this one is a Mille Fleur and she climbs onto you shoe and pecks you leg until you pick her up...a real cuddler.
and this one a Buff Columbian...
But not sure on this one.... she sure is a sweetie.
I'm having to separate the OEGB and the d'Anvers soon...Right now they all get along, but the closer we get to egg laying, the more feuds there might be....of course I could separate the boys from the girls.....
So glad to hear that they are BBR and Ginger. I was hoping some of those hatched. I have a few of the columbian that are darker...makes them possible Ginger. The only quail I have is the blue quail cockerel I was given by a friend. All the others are from BBB's eggs.Nana,
looks like you got them all about right color name wise
The last pullet is a dark bb red.
oterwise you have them all labled right. On the columbian verses ginger. The gingers are usually a good shade or two darker red than the columbians. Those are almost always orangish in color. That top one in question looks to be a ginger
The 3rd pic columbian , if I had to guess. I always make mine when they hatch cause the chick down color is a night and day difference, then they grow up very similar
Looking forwad to seeing the offspring you get from those pairings! That Creole is really pretty.Hey Aubrey, glad you're back answering questions. I got a million of them. First can you tell gender of a golden neck chick by color, if so what is the difference?
I have these two pullets that came out of silver quail eggs (the white ones)
and this rooster (comb is not very good)
What are the chances of making columbians next year?
Finally, I just like posting pictures of this guy. I ended up with a few bb red(ish) looking pullets so I will try and make more next year.
Sounds like you have tons of work to do...just send that rain to Oklahoma!Speaking of rain, it poured buckets of rain all night long. It's been raining off and on for days now and though we have been in that terrible drought, I'm getting a little tired of things not drying out around here. We have cleanup to do after the loggers finished our extra acreage, cutting our firewood for winter and clearing the slash so we can put our back perimeter fence up to keep out roaming dogs, etc. Hard to work when everything is so wet that it soaks your clothes down to your skin.
Porch railings are green with mold/mildew and paint is peeling and we need to sand and repaint, but no way in all this high humidity. Guess that will have to wait for dry, cooler fall days.
Bought feed yesterday. Hasn't gone up anymore than 50 cents for the Tucker Milling mini pellets yet. They were out of Knockout so they gave me the 13-way 16% protein scratch for $1 off their normal price of $15/ 50#. He told me that just plain old cracked corn was $14/50#. Glad I don't buy that, but I'm sure the prices will be up by the next time I need to buy it.