Oh thank you!
That is our first OEGB that we rescued from tractor supply our first year with chickens. They had gotten in too many bantams and we're out if brooder space. This tiny little bird named kept getting squished so we brought him home and nursed him back to health. We named him Nugget. We did eventually re-home him the next spring as he didn't get along with our other cockerals. He went to a great home with a doting family and his own flock!
It was very hard to let him go.
We have since hatched a self blue hen, named Crocket(a mink killed her last fall), a black pair, Minnie and Mickey,(unfortunately Mickey was killed I believe by a fox but we don't know for sure). Before Mickey was killed he fathered two beautiful little black/self blue split girls with Crocket. Unfortunately last summer one of the two girls drowned in a freak accident when the rain partially filled an old stock tank on our property. The other hen is alive and well and named Polly.
We also were given three other OEGB by another BYCer. Their coop wasn't keeping them well in winter and the rooster had lost his comb to frost bite. I don't know exactly how old they were. The three were a silver duckwing pair and a blue brassy backed hen. Unfortunately the SDW hen went missing the same time Mickey died. Draco the silver duckwing rooster passed away late last fall very suddenly(as in overnight) judging by the way he looked and his spurs when we got him I believe he was quite old and probably passed from old age. The blue brassy hen, Dovey, is still alive and well and oh so sweet.
So right now I only have Minnie, Polly, and Done as far as OEGB go. Well that's not entirely true. Last year after Mickey passed I collected all the OEGB eggs I could to try and get some of his babies with Minnie(something I had never managed to do and considering I got them from show stock that a friendsf father of mine owned- he regularly sold chicks for as much 50-75$ a piece) Unfortunately that person got out of OEGB before we lost Mickey so I couldn't get more from him. 4 chicks hatched from my last ditch attempt. I could tell they were pure right away. I didn't know which hens eggs I collected or which rooster had bred her since they weren't separated into a breeding group.
Of the 4 chicks only one was a pullet and her three brothers accidentally killed her one day by jumping in the brooder landing on and breaking her neck. The three little cockerals are quite cute but cause disruption in the flock so will be culled. They are black with varying amounts of yellow and gold leakage.
I plan to add more OEGB as soon as possible. Hopefully this year but I may have to wait for next year.
Sorry for the long winded story LOL I really love OEGB and can't imagine my flcok without them.
That is our first OEGB that we rescued from tractor supply our first year with chickens. They had gotten in too many bantams and we're out if brooder space. This tiny little bird named kept getting squished so we brought him home and nursed him back to health. We named him Nugget. We did eventually re-home him the next spring as he didn't get along with our other cockerals. He went to a great home with a doting family and his own flock!
It was very hard to let him go.
We have since hatched a self blue hen, named Crocket(a mink killed her last fall), a black pair, Minnie and Mickey,(unfortunately Mickey was killed I believe by a fox but we don't know for sure). Before Mickey was killed he fathered two beautiful little black/self blue split girls with Crocket. Unfortunately last summer one of the two girls drowned in a freak accident when the rain partially filled an old stock tank on our property. The other hen is alive and well and named Polly.
We also were given three other OEGB by another BYCer. Their coop wasn't keeping them well in winter and the rooster had lost his comb to frost bite. I don't know exactly how old they were. The three were a silver duckwing pair and a blue brassy backed hen. Unfortunately the SDW hen went missing the same time Mickey died. Draco the silver duckwing rooster passed away late last fall very suddenly(as in overnight) judging by the way he looked and his spurs when we got him I believe he was quite old and probably passed from old age. The blue brassy hen, Dovey, is still alive and well and oh so sweet.
So right now I only have Minnie, Polly, and Done as far as OEGB go. Well that's not entirely true. Last year after Mickey passed I collected all the OEGB eggs I could to try and get some of his babies with Minnie(something I had never managed to do and considering I got them from show stock that a friendsf father of mine owned- he regularly sold chicks for as much 50-75$ a piece) Unfortunately that person got out of OEGB before we lost Mickey so I couldn't get more from him. 4 chicks hatched from my last ditch attempt. I could tell they were pure right away. I didn't know which hens eggs I collected or which rooster had bred her since they weren't separated into a breeding group.
Of the 4 chicks only one was a pullet and her three brothers accidentally killed her one day by jumping in the brooder landing on and breaking her neck. The three little cockerals are quite cute but cause disruption in the flock so will be culled. They are black with varying amounts of yellow and gold leakage.
I plan to add more OEGB as soon as possible. Hopefully this year but I may have to wait for next year.
Sorry for the long winded story LOL I really love OEGB and can't imagine my flcok without them.
