Fugly Farm

[BlueBaby]

Please tell me more. I'm under the impression that Australorps handled heat.

The small combed Easter Eggers were standing around holding their wings out most of the summer. But so were the large combed Leghorns. It was hot and humid.

Barnyard mixes have Dominique so I've got 5 with flat cushion type combs along with the Easter Eggers. I was leaning to keeping the single combed ones before DD#2 tamed the cushion combed stripeys. Things we do for our kids...

The fluffier the bird is, the harder it is for them to take this desert heat over here in the summer. It's also very bad for them if the hen's want to go broody during that time. They can die in the nesting box. I was running a mister for those, and they would stand or lay under it all day. That really made the feather's look bad, not to mention the mud that built up at that end.

Now I have the Naked Neck's, and they didn't ever want to go under the mister's and were content to just stand in big pan's of water, so I removed the mister's. 2 of the NN hen's still picked that bad time to go broody taking turn's at it, so I had to keep fighting them to take the egg's. I hatched some of those egg's myself out in my incubator instead.

 

[N F C]

I can tell ya this blue girl here has a TON of fluff even though she's an Nn. I do love her color though, gorgeous in the sun! She looks like a little storm cloud running around on the ground.

I had a hatchery Aussie plus a few I got from BB. They were all sweet natured. My Rhodies were the more...assertive girls.

What breeds do you have right now?

Funny...I loved my RIR hatchery girls, they were sweet hearts.

Right now I have 3 Cream Crested Legbars, 1 Welsummer, and 1 mix. I got those because that's what a member here had available (he's up there around Casper). The Wellie is the friendliest and so chatty.

 

[igorsMistress]

Funny...I loved my RIR hatchery girls, they were sweet hearts.

Right now I have 3 Cream Crested Legbars, 1 Welsummer, and 1 mix. I got those because that's what a member here had available (he's up there around Casper). The Wellie is the friendliest and so chatty.

I loved my Wellie girl! Do your CCLs have crests? I love their tails.
My RIR girls shared leadership of the flock and weren't mean about it. They killed pigeons though. Quite few actually.

 

[N F C]

I loved my Wellie girl! Do your CCLs have crests? I love their tails.
My RIR girls shared leadership of the flock and weren't mean about it. They killed pigeons though. Quite few actually.

They killed pigeons?!? Crazy!

I should get some newer photos of my girls once the weather is better. This is one of the legbars here:

 

[igorsMistress]

They killed pigeons?!? Crazy!

I should get some newer photos of my girls once the weather is better. This is one of the legbars here:
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Pretty birds! Are they pretty hearty? My roo with CCL in his background has a similar comb, sorta sitting forward on the head without a lot of flesh at the back.

 

[N F C]

Pretty birds! Are they pretty hearty? My roo with CCL in his background has a similar comb, sorta sitting forward on the head without a lot of flesh at the back.

They seem to handle our weather ok, and you know what a lousy winter it's been around here. They are very flighty though...try as I might, none of them has ever became people friendly.

 

[igorsMistress]

They seem to handle our weather ok, and you know what a lousy winter it's been around here. They are very flighty though...try as I might, none of them has ever became people friendly.

My Wellie was kind of like that. I'd often find her foraging alone and she never cared for hand feeding much. Unless it was a bug, she'd make exception in that case.

 

[N F C]

My Wellie was kind of like that. I'd often find her foraging alone and she never cared for hand feeding much. Unless it was a bug, she'd make exception in that case.

There are always exceptions, especially for bugs

 

[room onthebroom]

When you want to sunbathe but don’t want to get your feathers dirty....

Luckily that Cochins not fully grown yet or she would’ve squashed Red like a bug.

 

[BlueBaby]

When I had the CCLB hen's they layed blue egg's that to me weren't very big, but the girl's that hatched out of them crossed with the NN's lay green egg's and are turning out to be a good size.