Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

[cknnewbie]

The girls are on to something .... maybe this nasty wintery weather IS Fud Lady's fault. Now we know who to blame. I am in love with Baron Puddles and his legwarmers!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in Derp Land!

 

[Tacampbell1973]

Happy THanksgiving also to all of Derps Fans and family. Keep safe and love each other....

 

[Gryphon]

All of my girls blame me for the horrid white stuff too, particularly my Black Australorp, who thinks I've cursed the land to clash with her luscious black feathers.

 

[Nambroth]

Well I know Dale's three bantam cochin hens that live in Canada do well in the snow, so hopefully Puddles and Millie will do as well to. I think Dale's three cochins have more stabliity over other hens in the snow. I know you have a Quaker parrot or two Nambroth, do they ever get to come out and play in snow since they are one of the few cold hardy parrot breeds ?

I am sure they will. Trousers did just fine in the snow and bitter cold last year!
I don't have any Quaker parrots; mine are Pionus and they are from Brazil originally (as a species... mine were raised by people, not taken from the wild!)

I haven't visited this thread in a few months, but last time I did Nambroth said that Derperella was sick, did she get better? Is she ok now?

Derp seems to be as healthy as ever! She is still 'strange' or 'off', but her health seems okay!

Haha love the update

Fud lady are you going to breed???

No, not with having Marek's here. If I ever breed, it will be when I have a much larger coop. Even then I will need to be prepared to process extra roosters... (I can't sell or give away Marek's birds!) which I am not sure that I can do with a breed as sweet as cochins. My experience with cochin roosters is that they are so gentle and sweet that it would be mighty hard to send them to freezer camp...

 

[seminolewind]

Well Jennifer, you can always start that big breeding coop and sell eggs, and if you have a good friend, maybe someone who can incubate at their house and sell the chicks from there. I hate to let Marek's win to people's dreams. I feel bad for the roos, so they each have a pen and shelter. I wish klf73 was still an active member, I know she's had to deal with being a breeder with Marek's on her property.

 

[Nickeyo]

I am sure they will. Trousers did just fine in the snow and bitter cold last year!

I don't have any Quaker parrots; mine are Pionus and they are from Brazil originally (as a species... mine were raised by people, not taken from the wild!)


Derp seems to be as healthy as ever! She is still 'strange' or 'off', but her health seems okay!


No, not with having Marek's here. If I ever breed, it will be when I have a much larger coop. Even then I will need to be prepared to process extra roosters... (I can't sell or give away Marek's birds!) which I am not sure that I can do with a breed as sweet as cochins. My experience with cochin roosters is that they are so gentle and sweet that it would be mighty hard to send them to freezer camp...

Mareks isn't transmissible to eggs so if u kept the offspring separate until you knew which to keep and which not to then you should be In the clear

 

[Nambroth]

Well Jennifer, you can always start that big breeding coop and sell eggs, and if you have a good friend, maybe someone who can incubate at their house and sell the chicks from there. I hate to let Marek's win to people's dreams. I feel bad for the roos, so they each have a pen and shelter. I wish klf73 was still an active member, I know she's had to deal with being a breeder with Marek's on her property.

That's a lot of work for me to put on a friend's shoulders! Sadly I don't know anyone local that might do it. Maybe someday. But, even if I bred... there is not much call for cochins around here! The lady that bred Puddles for me has had a hard time rehoming her lovely birds. That's how I ended up with Trousers after all!

 

[Nambroth]

Mareks isn't transmissible to eggs so if u kept the offspring separate until you knew which to keep and which not to then you should be In the clear

Because of the way Marek's spreads, I am 100% sure I already have it in all rooms of my small house already.

 

[kitmarlowescot2]

Oh I didn't know they were Pionus, and I guess they wouldn't be like Quakers who live all over South America and experince that extreme of temperature. I know some parrot owners will bring in snow for their parrots to play with, have you ever done that to entertain either your cockatiels or the Pionus ? And have you ever had to deal with feral Quaker parrot resuce, I know there is a population of them in New York ?

And Marek's can if effect other bird species, or just chickens ?

 

[Nambroth]

Oh I didn't know they were Pionus, and I guess they wouldn't be like Quakers who live all over South America and experince that extreme of temperature. I know some parrot owners will bring in snow for their parrots to play with, have you ever done that to entertain either your cockatiels or the Pionus ? And have you ever had to deal with feral Quaker parrot resuce, I know there is a population of them in New York ?

And Marek's can if effect other bird species, or just chickens ?

Pionus come from pretty warm areas of South America, and don't have the compact and warm feather layers that Quakers do.

All of the feral Quakers are on the other side of NY, near the coast where it's a bit warmer than here. I'm up in the hills in the western part of NY state. Our climate is actually much colder than NYC area for the most part.

Marek's (chicken Marek's) is not zoonotic to other species, except possibly a few other galliformes such as quail.