On another note, I've got a bone to pick with @cjwaldon , these birds I got from you have produced countless pullets in brown and in isabel, one isabel rooster who is ugly as sin, and 2 brown roosters...
I got 1 too!!!!!
Winner winner chicken dinner!!! Fuzz got Reserve Champion of Show at the ASA Nationals!!!!!! And Peck got Champion pullet!!!!!
you do realize you jinxed yourself when you said you needed a nice chocolate who should I go with the hens you already hadI'd love to get some CCL eggs from you this coming spring!I'll drive to get them though....
Oh you poor thing!
(I'm going to send you some chocolate pics. I need help with which color is called what. Trying to decide which boys to keep.... unlike your luck, I ended up with way more boys!)
he's just the scraggliest looking thing I've ever seen and his comb is not pretty. Kind of a mix between rose and single. Ill have to get a pic of him. He's pathetic looking lol.Huh?Ugly as sin?
My cemani eggs look great, too!!! (Course, I cracked one while candling.Leaving them on the egg turner next time. I tried patching it with wax; we'll see what happens. ) I am bummed out by the crested cream legbar eggs I bought from Papas poultry, I got 8 and 7 have quit. At least the 12 cemani, monkey spit-11 cemani eggs are doing good.
he's just the scraggliest looking thing I've ever seen and his comb is not pretty. Kind of a mix between rose and single. Ill have to get a pic of him. He's pathetic looking lol.
yep, same type of comb. Lol. Love the pic. Honestly I haven't looked close enough to see if he has the wing patch or not. He may grown out of his ugliness but he is pretty rough. The pullets all seem to have pretty nice feathers but that lowly cockerel doesn't. Figure ill keep a brown split boy to run with the isabel girls and try for a good isabel cockerel next year. I cut myself off from hatching. Normally I shut down in October. I forced myself to at the end of July cause I want all birds fully capable of handling the weather by December 1. I had some hens hatch off some stuff then abandon it last month so I'm dealing with those few stragglers but they are growing and adjusting well. All if my isabel came from the brown splits I hatched and got mailed from you. The isabel cockerel I hatched from you did not survive last winter. I'm not sure why but he was just dead one morning.No reason to keep ugly butt. I suspect he's ugly due to wing patch. I ended up culling every last Isabel boy I had because that dreaded wing patch cropped up bad this year. I went back to splits to try to get a good rooster with good (dare I say superb?) feather quality. I now have one single hopeful Isabel cockerel growing out. I have a lot of hope on him, but if he doesn't work out, I still have the splits. I WILL get there! I had to draw a line on hatching so that I wouldn't have chicks inside over the winter. I did get two funky combed pullets this year. Probably from crossing single comb to rose comb. I guess the predicted results are not as straight forward as people want you to believe. But they're still pretty girls and will be good layers. Here is one of my funky combed pullets right after getting a drink and shaking water droplets around.
yep, patched it right away.
