Houdans

[Kassaundra]

You should have put a warning up, I almost blew my coffee out my nose! lol The pics were funny. She wasn't having any of that metro fufu boy stuff!!!!!!! lol lol lol I bet she prefers the Malboro Cowboy type.

 

[aoxa]

You should have put a warning up, I almost blew my coffee out my nose! lol The pics were funny. She wasn't having any of that metro fufu boy stuff!!!!!!! lol lol lol I bet she prefers the Malboro Cowboy type.

Yep! She and my other two cochins are one man women.

They are sister wives. Jagger is always around the plus sized ladies. Gigi has to ambush them if he wants to get any action

 

[Chilifur]

I'm looking forward to my F1 Houdan x Dorking birds to start laying soon!

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[Kassaundra]

Just started the Houdan Chicken Chat on Facebook. Please feel free to join in - it's an open group. Tried joining an existing FB Houdan group, but have never been admitted. Guessing they are not active anymore...?
The group is intended to enhance this forum, not take away (BYC is too hard to use from an iphone, for example, and I have no Internet at home.)
In the meantime, I'm looking forward to my F1 Houdan x Dorking birds to start laying soon!

I could not find any site called Houdan chicken chat, just the closed group Houdan chicken support group

 

[aoxa]

My Mottled Houdans are now 20 weeks old. My rooster Gigi is looking beautiful and magnificent. I am bringing both of them to a chicken show (fair type thing) as I am the only one in our Province that owns them.. That's gotta be good for something

Gigi is much prettier than I could have ever imagined.

Skittles is a bit more difficult to get pictures of.

 

[Kassaundra]

Gigi is a handsome boy, but I have to admit I like skittles better.

Good luck at the fair.

 

[aoxa]

Gigi is a handsome boy, but I have to admit I like skittles better.    Good luck at the fair.

Thanks Wish she would be more cooperative!

I find them VERY vocal. Skittles will carry a conversation with herself (very much like my polish) and Gigi loves to sing the egg song and crow.

 

[zach N houdan]

My Mottled Houdans are now 20 weeks old. My rooster Gigi is looking beautiful and magnificent. I am bringing both of them to a chicken show (fair type thing) as I am the only one in our Province that owns them.. That's gotta be good for something

Gigi is much prettier than I could have ever imagined.

Skittles is a bit more difficult to get pictures of.

i think your hen has a gr8 creast and will do better where did u get them

 

[aoxa]

i think your hen has a gr8 creast and will do better where did u get them

http://www.activelifefarm.ca/ourchickens.html Thanks. It's a little lopsided, but is evening out over time. Are the crests for the males not supposed to be like that?

 

[Kassaundra]

I thought the roos crest was supose to be like that, pointy feathered and spikey.

I think skittles mottleing is nicer then gigi's. I've been doing a little reading here and there about what they should and should not look like, I am no where near knowledgeable on the subject, but remember reading that having whole feathers that are white is a breed look "no no", but besides what I read about "standards" I think skittles mottleing is just more asthetically pleasing.

Do you know how much they weigh? The site link didn't have a weight on their birds. I'm assuming it is a Canadian location?

I'm wanting to breed for size (large) wouldn't you know my one suspected male is small

but he's still young maybe he'll catch up.