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[atrueb00]

They are 1/2 LF Cochin but I am not sure what color my rooster is. They were eggs from my hens. The black one could be full cochin but not sure. Here is my rooster and my hens that were laying when Jewel went broody.

Blu is my rooster


Jewel is a LF cochin the chicks momma


Celeste, I was told she was a leghorn but she lays tan eggs so I think she is a white rock. My RSL did not start laying until after the chicks hatched.


Big Momma, I was told she was a lavender Orpington but not sure



Rarity came from the same seller as Celeste claiming she was a leghorn, I suspect white rock also. She lays the same color egg as Celeste.



So I guess you could say they are a barnyard mix

I love Blu! His stance is so great! Love his coloring too. The ladies are equally beautiful-thank you so much for sharing these pics!!

 

[Rhandi74]

 I love Blu! His stance is so great! Love his coloring too. The ladies are equally beautiful-thank you so much for sharing these pics!!

Thank you, I really like him too. He is a great first rooster to have. He treats all my hens very nicely and does a great job protecting them also. He has been great with his chicks, which really surprised me. I expected him to not really care about them. When I got my first chickens and ducklings at TSC, I absolutely fell in love with my bantam cochin. I decided I had to have LF cochin and it took some time to find a pair that even resembled the breed in my area, so when I saw them on craigslist I just had to have them.

Here is Panther, the chicken that made me fall in love with Cochins. She loves to be held and to sit in laps.

 

[atrueb00]

Thank you, I really like him too. He is a great first rooster to have. He treats all my hens very nicely and does a great job protecting them also. He has been great with his chicks, which really surprised me. I expected him to not really care about them. When I go my first chickens and ducklings at TSC, I absolutely fell in love with my bantam cochin. I decided I had to have LF cochin and it took some time to find a pair that even resembled the breed in my area, so when I saw them on craigslist I just had to have them.

Here is Panther, the chicken that made me fall in love with Cochins. She loves to be held and to sit in laps.

OMG she is amazing!! I would like to add bantam cochins to my flock next year, and have always wanted all black ones. Adorable!!

 

[Rhandi74]

OMG she is amazing!! I would like to add bantam cochins to my flock next year, and have always wanted all black ones. Adorable!!

Thank you, I also have a lavender bantam cochin from TSC. He is gorgeous but his tail is not round like it should be.
Here he is:

I have not decided if I should keep him or not. Panther really loves him so I probably will.

 

[chick rookie]

I highly doubt that the snake has left since it had such success with the coop as a food source. It won't move on easily. My guess is that you have just missed seeing it. I would put golf balls out to try to kill it. It will also take some time after the stressor is gone for them to start laying regularly again, when I moved coops my girls stopped laying for more than a month. As far as the egg size, I think it will take a couple of months before the eggs show a drastic increase in size. I don't think the wellsummers will ever lay large eggs, mine is 4 years old and lays a smaller egg. The other breeds you list should lay a decent sized egg as they age.

I have golf balls lots of them. Thanks. When I was researching the breeds I wanted color in the yard as well as in the basket, I got all that said lg eggs. I didn't think I got any med or sm egg layers ( in my LF group. ) But didn't know it would take so long to get the egg sz from them. I figured a week or 2 but not this. oh well, have to wait and see what happens I guess.

I just use those small rubber pans, walmart, and tsc sells them, I'm home so can run out every hour with warm water. I know some people can't be home all day to do this. This sounds like it might work. I've heard of the tin pan method also. alot of people use it.

I love visitors, but also like to know in advance. BUT I've had people /kids run all over the place, let birds out, go in coops. Most of these are people that come to buy birds. I alwayys try to have them in cages infront of my house to avoid this, but some people still think they can run all over your propery. I'm seriously thinking of meeting people some where. at least the ones I don't know.

My welsummers lay a good size egg. But I'm not getting many eggs right now, as all of mine are in some stage of molt.

They are adorable

What is the tin pan method?

All of my older girls are in molt as well. There are feathers EVERYWHERE! Case in point BLRW - she is normally twice as wide as she is now! At least the hens with bad rooster damage will grow feathers back in!



I strongly suspect that 2 of the 3 chicks are boys. They are larger than the for sure cream legbar girl, with thicker legs. Boo.

I have another broody Marans, the sister of the one that tried to go broody a month ago. I am going to leave her and hope she snaps herself out of it.

And, in sad news, I came hope to a dead Bielefelder pullet. They had all been doing great and looked great. She was dead, jammed in a corner of the run with her head under a portion that sticks out. She didn't seem to be stuck (my first thought was that she got stuck and panicked). I don't have any idea what happened and am sad about the whole thing.

Sorry to hear about your loss.

Momma broody seems to be doing well. She has at least 4 dry chicks under there! So far she's hatched as well as I can

So cute, cant wait till my girl hatches hers out, if they hatch at all.

Well, the farmers almanac has officially announced that they are predicting a Winter that is even colder and more snowy than last year.....I am not sure how I can survive another bad Winter. My heated dog bowl waterer did not survive last winter, so I need another option this year and have multiple pens (although I am going to try to get down to 2 pens for winter. I currently have nipple waterers but I don't think there is much I can do to keep them from freezing if it gets that cold again. I also have a bunch of new trees and my last group of new trees didn't survive last winter. Any ideas on how to help these trees through a tough Winter?

I'm also bummed because last Winter killed off all the buds on my fruit trees and I had a pathetic crop this year, another bad Winter means another bad year for fruit.

ya just had to burst my bubble didn't ya.... that just upset me. I hate winter anyway and last winter I got so depressed. I just don't know if I can handle another one like it.

and my poor kids.

One of the two has hatched...anxiously awaiting the other one...

Here's a video of my silkie rooster running around all wet. He is so funny!

He and all the ladies got honey all of themselves (long story, lesson learned to not put just processed frames on top of the chicken coop!) and all had to be washed. He loves being pampered and just sits in the warm water to soak. So funny!

My cousin in Terre Haute still has multi-color and pearl guineas for sale, they are 3-6 weeks old. Very good at keeping bugs in control. He's asking $3/each. Here I am with an opal one that is 4 weeks old.

lol cute, My Romeo fell in the dog pool and was throwing a fit, by the time I got to him he was swimming and I think he must have liked it cause he now gets in all the time. worries me so I go outside and wait till he gets done.. lol need a pic but I always freak out and that leads to not thinking about the camera.
BTW I am getting 2 of his keets this weekend, thanks again for the hook up.

So cute! And what a great story. I once had three cat siblings -- the offspring of a feral cat in a feral cat colony I used to take care of. Two sisters and a brother (the brother looked a lot like Purcy):


They were named Lily, Fern and Rufus (RIP all three). Loved those cats. They were actually really tolerant of most other animals tho -- not only our dogs, but even the raccoons and possums in the neighborhood. And Rufus just LOVED our Great Pyrenees, Darwin. Snuggled with him all the time. Now we have two cats, both rescues. Micky doesn't really like the dogs, but Mercy really enjoys them and plays quite a lot with our smallest (the yorkiepoo, Abby). Here are Ziva (mastiff/boxer) and Mercy snuggling:



I love the Woodruff Place neighborhood. It's a great place to take a nice walk.

that's cute, don't think I would ever see any of my dogs hugging a cat.

I must look up those signs. They sound much more in my price range than the others. But I still plan to get something yellow that has some kind of saying that implies GO AWAY

I would just make me some...

 

[chick rookie]

Thank you, I also have a lavender bantam cochin from TSC. He is gorgeous but his tail is not round like it should be.

Here he is:

I have not decided if I should keep him or not. Panther really loves him so I probably will.

I'll take him...!!!!!! He is absolutely Beautiful!!!!!! Wow even DH loves him....

 

[chick rookie]

Thank you, I also have a lavender bantam cochin from TSC. He is gorgeous but his tail is not round like it should be.

Here he is:

I have not decided if I should keep him or not. Panther really loves him so I probably will.

thought I better add that I cant drive that far even if you did rehome him to me lol but man is a Pretty...

 

[Rhandi74]

I'll take him...!!!!!! He is absolutely Beautiful!!!!!! Wow even DH loves him....  

Well I will defiantly will keep that in mind if I choose to not keep him. I would just have to figure out how to get him to you???

 

[chick rookie]

Well I will defiantly will keep that in mind if I choose to not keep him.

I would just have to figure out how to get him to you???

yea I think he is too big to ship... lol. DH just said he drives to bowling green KY and wants to know how close that is too you? lol
He wants Cochins anyway, but now he says he wants that kind of Cochin... lol

 

[kittydoc]

@Mother2Hens What an awesome and heartwarming story (well, except for the building fire)!

I treated a cat for smoke inhalation when I was still in vet school. The poor people lived in a camper (not a fancy one--a truck with a camper top) and loved their two cats. They returned from an errand to find the camper on fire. Neither cat appeared when they called. After the fire was put out, they found one low on the floor under the "bed," and it was actually OK. The other one got on top of shelves, and breathed in a lot of smoke. They couldn't afford hardly anything, so the resident and I who were on emergency duty barely charged them anything except the exam fee, even though we had their kitty on oxygen for an hour (which would have cost a LOT). He improved significantly over that hour, so we sent him home. Again, they couldn't afford to hospitalize him even one night, which we would have preferred. They promised to come back if he relapsed. A week later, we received a very sweet thank you note from them that he was doing fine, and how much they appreciated our kindness. Yes, we screwed the vet hospital out of at least $200, but sometimes you just do what you gotta do. These people lost their home, such as it was. I was just glad I was working with an equally compassionate resident who was not a stickler for "the rules."

And I'm not surprised that the brothers remembered each other! Cats' memories are underestimated by people. Red tabbies (orange tabbies) are the best. My sister just adopted a red tabby kitten for her daughter. His name is Ziggy.