I like how mine float & glide across the yard. (Their fluff hides their legs, so their big round bodies skim majestically across the grass.) However, when treats are involved, they start running. That's when a comical fast-motion waddle comes out! It's hilarious when they start wing flapping & "honking" in the hopes of increasing speed. We have a long narrow yard, so they do their best to make sure I know they're coming as fast as their plump little bodies will go.
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I like how mine float & glide across the yard. (Their fluff hides their legs, so their big round bodies skim majestically across the grass.) However, when treats are involved, they start running. That's when a comical fast-motion waddle comes out! It's hilarious when they start wing flapping & "honking" in the hopes of increasing speed. We have a long narrow yard, so they do their best to make sure I know they're coming as fast as their plump little bodies will go.
thanks. I'm checking with a shelter in Chicago and i found some one selling some birds that are only a few weekd older.
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Good luck. I hope it works out for you and the chick.
@Leahs Mom Lovely birds! Those Orps do remind me of my li'l Cochins! They look very huggable. 
Well, apparently the last time I posted pictures of my birds was in July.
Those kiddos are much bigger now, about 6 months old (well, the Marans are closer to 9, I think), and only one of them is laying! Other than the Silkie hens, who are broody off and on, she's the only one currently supplying me with eggs. Bunch'a slackers! 
I did, indeed, end up with just 2 cockerels out of the 6 Mottled Cochins. One was biting and flogging me, so he went to the freezer along with the three Marans cockerels that got into the habit of attacking all at once as soon as I entered the pen with them. 
I kept one Mottled cockerel and both of the silkied Cochin cockerels, though.
Anyway, here's a few pictures of the youngins that I took a couple days ago (except the boys, I forgot to get their pictures with the rest of them
). My silkied Cochin pullet, Roxanne:
The Mottled girls, Bryony, Ida, Sylvie, and Vira. Vira (the one with the attutide
) is the only one laying so far.
My sweet, darling Silver Gray Dorking babies, Kita and Myrna Y'all know I love my Dorkings!
Here are some older pictures of the boys I kept, taken about a month ago. Russell and Rufus (the silkied boys), and Jasper (the Mottled) :
And the Marans girls as well. Mavis, Josephine, and Vivienne:
I *was* enjoying getting lovely, dark brown eggs from these three, but they've all decided to have a full molt this fall instead of waiting until their second fall like most pullets do.
I also brought home these lovely little darlings from the Central Indiana Poultry Show--Fawn Silver Duckwing OEGBs. I had resisted for so long, but I finally just had to have them. The rooster is named Winston and the hen is Sybil. 
I can't wait to hatch some babies from these two in the spring!!
Well, apparently the last time I posted pictures of my birds was in July.
Those kiddos are much bigger now, about 6 months old (well, the Marans are closer to 9, I think), and only one of them is laying! Other than the Silkie hens, who are broody off and on, she's the only one currently supplying me with eggs. Bunch'a slackers! I did, indeed, end up with just 2 cockerels out of the 6 Mottled Cochins. One was biting and flogging me, so he went to the freezer along with the three Marans cockerels that got into the habit of attacking all at once as soon as I entered the pen with them. I kept one Mottled cockerel and both of the silkied Cochin cockerels, though.Anyway, here's a few pictures of the youngins that I took a couple days ago (except the boys, I forgot to get their pictures with the rest of them
). My silkied Cochin pullet, Roxanne:
The Mottled girls, Bryony, Ida, Sylvie, and Vira. Vira (the one with the attutide
) is the only one laying so far.
My sweet, darling Silver Gray Dorking babies, Kita and Myrna
Y'all know I love my Dorkings!
Here are some older pictures of the boys I kept, taken about a month ago. Russell and Rufus (the silkied boys), and Jasper (the Mottled) :
And the Marans girls as well. Mavis, Josephine, and Vivienne:
I *was* enjoying getting lovely, dark brown eggs from these three, but they've all decided to have a full molt this fall instead of waiting until their second fall like most pullets do.
I also brought home these lovely little darlings from the Central Indiana Poultry Show--Fawn Silver Duckwing OEGBs.
I had resisted for so long, but I finally just had to have them. The rooster is named Winston and the hen is Sybil. I can't wait to hatch some babies from these two in the spring!!
@oldrooster I saw your post, but do not have any referral names I can share. I'm sorry your family needs the referral.
My notifications have not been working for a week. Anybody else's been turned off? Weird.
My notifications have not been working for a week. Anybody else's been turned off? Weird.
All this talk of dogs makes me want to share ours.
They're not bird dogs or herders and I would not leave them alone with free range birds, but they do warn off local predators from the outdoor coop area.
My sweeties:
They're not bird dogs or herders and I would not leave them alone with free range birds, but they do warn off local predators from the outdoor coop area.
My sweeties:
thanks for the try, just needing as much info as possible sometimes you might get a MD that only does something one way, regardless if it's the right was, just trying to cover bases....
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As far as notifications, once you stop interacting with a thread the notifications stop appearing. I look at watched threads to see if I've missed anything on a tgread I am interested in.
I decided to take some pics of Blizzard today (partly because of all the the snow last night & also to show @Leahs Mom what "Lucy's" biological mom looks like.) Blizzard's in the later stages of molt, so her fluffiness is returning.
Flash went off, so the color's off on this one:
Flash went off, so the color's off on this one:
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