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you said you needed more pens... just make some chicken snow-forts! er... I mean coops
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Ha, that wouldn't do me any good. Ive got a fox running around. Can see tracks all around my coops. Might have to make more meatball cocktails.
Dick

GET HIM DICK. GUN IS THE WEAPON OF CHOICE HERE
 
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This was the first storm this year I didn't have to shovel myself, which was nice.

Here's one of the pens. I know there are roos in there somewhere.

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Just like I know there's a garden here somewhere, but the fence is buried.

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If you want more come to my place, I'll give you all you want.HA
Dick
 
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Great toes. Keep that going.
Dick

Thanks! (And to everyone else who said the same!) I've been awfully happy with all the offspring I've seen from this big roo that I hatched from you so far!!
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Oh come on Peter, you've got to have that magical black ball repaired!
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I'm sure you get so tired of us less experienced Fav owners trying to hurry things along. I'm trying to listen to you and just relax and let them grow. The more I read and learn though, the more questions I have! Its just like that saying that goes "them more I learn the less I know".
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One thing I have learned though, no matter how many faults they have, it doesn't affect the way they taste!
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I really know how hard it is to wait. Believe me with the past season being my first breedings in many a year and with untried breedings it's been interesting to watch but I've had to put the brakes on doing much other than as we say out here lurking around the corner from them.
I'm really glad some of my humor is gotten out here. Chick, you're correct, the more we think we know the more we can be unproven.
Ok! I'm gonna throw this out here first before I send it to auction.
Check these out.
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These are my SURPRISE ee'r eggs from the feral btms that are the most pet like little creatures I've raised since doing meat birds. I'm offering a dozen bred to Rupert. giggle. Whaddaya think?
Oh going out to do a photo shoot soon of him. Yep - it's 4:00 some where or at least 4:20. ROFL
Leisha! HON call me some time.-)
Peter

Peter pullets hatched from those eggs have a possibility of being "olive eggers". I have two hens that were sired by Emmet and have an EE mama. One of them lays a blue/green egg like the mama hen but the other lays an olive egg. Here are pictures of them (we call them Frick and Frack) and their eggs.

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The egg on the top left next to the Marans egg is from the "olive egger". It is actually more olive colored than it appears in this picture. Also, the darker egg on the bottom right is an egg from my Fav pullet.
 
Peter, Dick Liesha, Cindy, anyone...What are the odds of breeding LF to bantam to improve type and overall structure? I've not been breeding long enough to answer this question myself, so after 4yrs, I'm relying on YOU ALL to help me figure this out. If any of you have advice, input, do's or dont's then please let me know. Back to lurk mode .

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Pardon me for intruding here, but would this be the type of barring/stripes your referring to? Just curious as one of my young cockerels has the same thing.
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Hey GypsyChick! You are certainly not intruding.
The striping that I noticed on my birds is vertical, running down the center of the feather. But actually, the book doesn't describe or illustrate what they are talking about. I assumed it meant a vertical stripe as I would consider a horizontal one to be barring (the book doesn't mention barring). The book goes on to say "Males without any stripe in hackle and saddle give a clear hackle in females, while those which show striping are apt to cause a black ticking in the hackle feathers. Breeders of both sexes should have clean hackles."

You know, actually, now that I think about it, my hatchery Fav roo does have salmon colored striping down the center of his hackle and saddle feathers, though you can't really see it until he moults and you look at individual feathers...I bet THAT's what they're talking about!!!!
 
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In your young birds you have to give them time. After their first moult you can see more. I also have a book by Harry Lamon. Its called "Judging Poultry". As he states in the book:
FAVEROLLES: Males in this variety are often to white in top color, which should be straw color. The hackle, back and saddle feathers are often striped with black which is a defect. In females, especially in hens the breast color is sometimes to light. They are also apt to have a heavy striping in hackle, which gives this section the appearance of being to dark.
This book was published in 1929. Again he's talking of older birds.
Dick
 

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