Dixie Chicks

[minihorse927]

That might be an interesting color combo.

be easier to clean those up to blue laced red than it would to cross a Wyandotte in.

 

[minihorse927]

Blue laced gold, not my pictures.

 

[perchie.girl]

Those five cats had to be bathed.
The fleas are terrible this year.
We used new flea collars.
Drops from vials at the base of the back of their heads.
Then pills.
They are still flea bags!
Now they have been bathed in flea shampoo and rinsed and are drying. As soon as they are dry they get new collars again.

About our garden this year,..
First came the deer and the rabbits.
Then our own chickens! Traders. They were worse than the deer and rabbits. Now we have the worse case of JAPANESE beetles I have ever seen. We spray Saturday morning after everyones chicks are gone and ours have been moved to their new housing and repaired housing. Every critter must be kept locked up for a while. Every one was moved temp and everyone will be moved permanently and everyone must be locked up. Must! There willl be no more coyote attacks!

I am hearing if you a double fence set about five feet wide just standard height deer wont jump over... The second fence is in their landing arc... I wonder if any one has used that....

Here to fence for rabbits you have to fence a good four or five feet high and since your going that high might as well put a roof over the garden bed. then you have to fence down two feet and cover the bottom of the bed with hardware cloth too.

Desert animals are very tenacious when it comes to getting food and water.... I actually put out water for the small critters so they don't drown in the big water troughs.

for Coyotes I fenced my yard with dog kennel panels... the goats made their own doors and defeated that purpose...


deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Omygoodness I really like him... does he roam if you dont tie him?

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

@bamadude
These would be cool to add to your colors wouldn't they, look like plums.

I doubt the langshans I'm maybe getting will lay them, but who knows. When/if they call when they ship em I'll ask.
Edited to add checked their website, says brown no mention of plum.
Did you have any luck in your quest to find real Croad?

Beer Can.... Those ARE plums see the seam

deb

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

If you cross to a blrw, they'll all probably have to rosecomb as single comb is recessive. You'd have to breed back to a orpingtons over and over and you'd have a genetic mess on your hands.

You really think the comb will be true to a wyandotte considering it will be half Orpington and half Wyandotte? Gee, I dont want that maybe the blue eng orp girl will work out after all. I was going to try to add in lavenders and pull out the red girl leaving the blue laced red and lavender girls The thing is, I have to give away what is not my best efforts. Real Estate is precious. No room at the inn if I will not be breeding them. I have a few chicks in the workshop I am waiting to see how they look. If they dont look the way I need them to, they will be given away! I have to give away all my English Orpingtons that get mixed by color whither deliberately by me or by accident. I only sell the true Blues, lavenders, reds, chocolates when I have time. I have only 1 spangled Black left I hope Woodsdweller wants it with the Lavenders I am giving him tomorrow. I dont need anymore lavenders an I dont have the time to go down the mountain to sell on Sat morn so they are free tomorrow. I am the person that takes Eng orp chicks to flock swaps and if there are any left over and I have been there about 2 hours I give them away rather than being them back home. I never bring chicks back home from a flock swap if they dont sell. I must give away.

 

[Beer can]

Omygoodness I really like him...  does he roam if you dont tie him? 

deb

Lika greyhound 90 miles an hr. Give him a couple hrs he comes back. When I feed the silkies it's comical, I don't know how he does it gets to the end of his chain and springs straight up repeatedly like a pogo stick, feet level a good three in a half four foot high, gotta get it on video.
He was good in the house until he was a bought a yr and a half. I read they don't make good house dogs, they want to go hunting.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Question
What would a spangle(black and white) eng orp look like if crossed with a Lavender splash eng orp ? Any one done that?

 

[Beer can]

Beer Can....  Those ARE plums  see the seam

deb

What!!! Dang!!! Maybe they are a myth! I thought they were eggs!

 

[minihorse927]

Question
What would a spangle(black and white) eng orp look like if crossed with a Lavender splash eng orp ? Any one done that?

what do you mean by lavender splash? Like lavender mottled?