Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Gardeningmama]

Quote: You know I just went back through Emails!!! YES !!

look... CPL

1-Bantam EE or Cochin x bantam salmon faverolle
2-Olandsk Dwarf
3- Mille Fluer D'uccle
4- bantam ameracana x bantam salmon faverolle
6-Cream Crested Legbar (These I know I have 2 pullets)
7- Russian Orlaff (These I know I have 2 pullets)
8- LF Ameracana/ bantam salmon faverolle


AH HA!! Mystery Solved. I had been thinking possibly D'Uccle, but yours are too round and my D'Uccles mature sooo slowly. Pretty birds.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

they are tiny tiny, smaller than my smallest serama????? and already have such wattles???

I also have THREE smaller same shape size and with leg foot feathers which are medium brown in color and a tad of black showing at the tail feathers?????

 

[Gardeningmama]

Doug & Mrs.Doug, I never congratulated you on Baby Destiny. So, CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!

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[Gardeningmama]

they are tiny tiny, smaller than my smallest serama????? and already have such wattles???

I also have THREE smaller same shape size and with leg foot feathers which are medium brown in color and a tad of black showing at the tail feathers?????

They could be Mille Fleur D'Uccles. They start out Buff, and the other colors come in with each molt. They do start out rounder too, but get sleek as they mature.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Meal Worms may carry Mareks disease and a bunch of other unwanted guests, (still trying to figure out mealworm types, not an easy lookup)
Chickens can also be exposed to Mareks virus by direct contact with ill or carrier chickens - which includes almost all chickens. Wild pheasant, quail and turkeys can pass the disease to free range chickens. One other route of infection is through meal worms, (which many small flock owners feed) and the darkling beetles that are the adult mealworm form. The mealworms do not become sick from Mareks.http://www.examiner.com/article/how...mareks-disease-michigans-small-chicken-flocks


Darkling beetles or lesser mealworms (Alphitobius diaperinus)Disease transmission

Darkling beetles are known vectors and reservoirs for a number of serious poultry disease agents
(leucosis, Marek’s disease, infectious bursal disease, reovirus, enterovirus, fowl pox and Newcastle
disease) and can act as intermediate hosts for caecal nematodes, tapeworms and protozoa. In addition,
they can transmit a number of food-borne diseases such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium,
and have been recently implicated in the transmission of Campylobacter. http://www.poultryhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Darkling_Beetles_web.pdf​

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[dcba flock]

spitzhauben

Hey Sally I have a couple spitz chicks one is super pretty and seems to be feathering great the other not so much it's oil gland has been very large as well as a few other spots where the feathers are coming in and some of the feather tips appear to be bleeding often. Not sure if its just this chick or an issue with this breed (brittle feathers/ ingrown feathers ?) they are both cuties hoping they are both pullets!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Hi Christina! I haven't seen any issues with mine so far, they are about 10-11 weeks old, how old are yours? I am soooo mad too! I just realized that I do have a roo! and I just spent a fortune on two other roos because I didn't think I had any! Now I will have to sell off the roos! ugggggg I read on the other thread that around 7-8 weeks you can tell roos! So I was certain they were all hens! This one is getting wattles and his eye/face area is getting alittle more pinkish than the others are still all white! uggggggg

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Mich..... go look at Christina's image on her profile! That is the type of chicks from CPL!!! we just discussed!! https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/190585/dcba-flock



Christina what breed is that? YAY!!!

 

[silver1313]

Quote: i know that feeling .... hmm what breeds ya got ? lol

 

[silver1313]

Quote: Hi Christina! I haven't seen any issues with mine so far, they are about 10-11 weeks old, how old are yours? I am soooo mad too! I just realized that I do have a roo! and I just spent a fortune on two other roos because I didn't think I had any! Now I will have to sell off the roos! ugggggg I read on the other thread that around 7-8 weeks you can tell roos! So I was certain they were all hens! This one is getting wattles and his eye/face area is getting alittle more pinkish than the others are still all white! uggggggg
i still love how these look !! maybe after the move ...