Hamburg thread!

[leahthor]

Here are my Silver Pencilled Hamburgs. They are still young so I'm hoping that when they molt their pencilling will be better, not to mention my cockeral will loose a lot of that black!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

(Love the SPHs! I'm getting sort of avaricious about the breed!)

I promised Urbanfarmgirl to post photos of the cockeral I got from her three weeks ago, and then evilly neglected to do so. Here he is today at twelve weeks:

I'll be moving him in with his harem before the end of the month; before that I'm enclosing another 6X12 chunk of territory for their use; more will be added before winter.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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He is so pretty! I used to have a SPH pullet..until my dog killed her!

~ Aspen

 

[phasianidae]

Hamburg bantams enjoying the nice weather:

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Very pretty, alert little things.

It's always nice to see a different color in breeds.

~ Aspen

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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What beauties!

 

[JohnGalt]

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[Stumpfarmer]

Since no-one's posted here for a bit, I thought I'd throw in a shot of Maggie, Terre and Suzzy and comment on one major difference between them.

Maggie, on the left, is a month older than the other two, and spent at least a month longer competing for feed with a pen which included Brahmas; when you look straight down at the three of these pullets, (who are about seven and eight months old now) she's a good couple of inches narrower and maybe three inches shorter, neck to tail, than the other two. Terre, who started laying a couple of weeks later than Suzzy, is not only longer but slightly more heavy-bodied, for values of "heavy bodied" which apply to birds as petite as Hamburgs.

Also, I spent most of June freaking out about tails, but apparently the beautiful spotted fan takes a while to develop; Suzzy's is brand new, and I'm sure Terre's will follow.

I'm getting 18-20 eggs a week from the three of them, and much enjoyment. I haven't taken a photo of their fiance Elvis this week, and won't have time until tomorrow, but he seems to get bigger every time I look at him, and every day his spangling is more pronounced, although now I'm worried about his tail.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Wanted to update the main Hamburg thread and give an idea of the growth of my little boy, who just started crowing this week- and thinks it's the best idea ever to crow for an hour or so around 10am, just because he can!

 

[flower]

STUMPFARMER very nice pictures. I enjoy seeing your birds especially MR Crower