Eastern Tennessee Thread

[TNChick82]

I always like seeing pictures of everyone's chickens. I took a few pictures of my flock. Thought I would share. Enjoy

Grayson -Orpington Buff

Buffy- Orpington Buff

Irene -Easter Egger

Frank -White Leghorn

Sally- Easter Egger

Diddle- Dominique

Golden Comets- Abagail, Clover and Comet

Brown Leghorns - Gracie and Flower Need names for the other 2. Couldn't get pictures of all them. To fast for the camera.

Road Island Red - Scarlett

Road Island Red- Henrietta

 

[tennesseeckn]

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They sure are pretty. Diddle makes me want a Dominique.

 

[stanglover2001]

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Diddle looks like a barred rock, since it has a single comb... dominiques have rose combs....

 

[TNChick82]

lol my husband keeps saying domer. So that's what we say she is. I thought the barred rocks feather pattern was slightly different. But then again I don't know

 

[NellaBean]

Hey stang, the blind sister to the "dalmatian" he you got is broody again...for the 2nd or 3rd time this year. Really must be the water here lol

Speaking of "dalmatian" hens.....I had planned to work on a paint cochin project but just done have the time or space.....I am going to sell my three starter girls and 2 boys.....they are white leghorn/cochin. 2 girls are POL. 1 girl is younger and looks much more like a leghorn than the other 2.

Asking $12 per POL girl or $8 for the younger girl. $30 for all 3. Boys are free (they are solid white).

 

[ladyride]

Look out everyone there is a hawk invasion going on we just had 25-30 of the suckers circle sweeping the coops.

You should have seen the game of chase the chickens into the coops going on here.

Throwing rocks etc.

we finally got them all in no chicken loss.

 

[HBuehler]

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I thought I would stop in over here and see what our "neighbors" are doing to the East of us..
Frank however isn't a leghorn..those are red ears on yours and the shape is wrong and Diddle is a Barred Rock.

Nella the water is bad here as well...broody Cochin's everywhere again. Beauty is doing wonderful.She had one baby with our HL and the baby died at birth-she was so upset when I took it away but the next day she got to become a foster mom to 2 baby hotot's.She's so happy now.

 

[tnchickenut]

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She looks like a BR... Doms have a smaller body build and don't have the straight comb. Also they are not truely "Barred" they are "cuckoo" which is a really messy barring... almost like fuzzy channel on the TV (if you are old enough to remember those zig zag lines.) With BRs barring... it comes down to quality of the bird/line. they SHOULD be clean even white and even black lines, but hatchery stock usually has a bit of wave to it and often the females will have heavy black barring.

In the end, does it matter what she is?! LOL! She lays, right? And you love her, right? Sounds like a perfect bird to me!!!

 

[tennesseeckn]

I like Diddle's chunky body. I'm a big fan of the hefty girls. I guess I like Barred Rocks. Hmmm. Who knew?

 

[TNChick82]

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She looks like a BR... Doms have a smaller body build and don't have the straight comb. Also they are not truely "Barred" they are "cuckoo" which is a really messy barring... almost like fuzzy channel on the TV (if you are old enough to remember those zig zag lines.) With BRs barring... it comes down to quality of the bird/line. they SHOULD be clean even white and even black lines, but hatchery stock usually has a bit of wave to it and often the females will have heavy black barring.

In the end, does it matter what she is?! LOL! She lays, right? And you love her, right? Sounds like a perfect bird to me!!!

LOL I love them all..ok so diddle is a Barred rock.....I bought frank thinking he was a leghorn Hen. So if not a leg horn than what? lol Im still learning

thanks for letting me know the difference. Diddle was hatched in a class room. Neighbors kids teach hatched some in class. Their mom ask me to take it. Since she knew we were building a coop. That way her kids could see diddle everyday.

Do barred rock and domers look that same a chicks?