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[Minminme]

Ive have a bird that is acting and looks like a pullet but has spurs starting...he/she is 18 wks old it hasnt crowed and doesnt have an aggressive bone in its body so I have bn thinking is a pullet. I'll try t get pics later today. It is a barnyard cross that I hatched (from my first hatch) and is crossed from my RIR roo and the hen that I was told is Speckled Sussex/Leghorn cross. He/She is beautiful and if turns out is a cockerel will b s good dinner in a few months.If is a Cockerel it needs its name changed...Daisy just doesnt sound masculine at all! LOL

 

[bradselig]

Our newest dog Belle.

adorable! What breed?

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Ive have a bird that is acting and looks like a pullet but has spurs starting...he/she is 18 wks old it hasnt crowed and doesnt have an aggressive bone in its body so I have bn thinking is a pullet. I'll try t get pics later today. It is a barnyard cross that I hatched (from my first hatch) and is crossed from my RIR roo and the hen that I was told is Speckled Sussex/Leghorn cross.  He/She is beautiful and if turns out is a cockerel will b s good dinner in a few months.If is a Cockerel it needs its name changed...Daisy just doesnt sound masculine at all! LOL

I have a barnyard mutt that I would swear is a roo, if she weren't laying eggs. Very bossy, and this morning she was calling the others to the apple bits I dropped in the run.

 

[FlockMaster-614]

Good news!! Chicks are hatching at my house!!
Three out so far. The first, a BR/BR cross. I think because its all black with white on its wing tips, head and a cute lil' bib, s/he hatched at 6:20-30 this morning before I left for church. The second two seemed to have hatched just within the window of 12:00- to now and one is also a BR/BR cross looking one and the third is an adorable little BR/EE cross! I'm so excited about it! Its small but seemingly energetic with steel grey lookin' down though its still wet and covered in egg yuck! Lol when I got down there I checked on them and saw the two still wet chicks climbing around in a bowl full of damp cotton balls. I was afraid they'd drown but fortunately its dry and they are getting their land legs. The ee/be had a large piece of egg on its head and some long thread of pinkish looking stuff wrapping from its leg to its back. Its not tight and it doesn't seem to notice so I'm assuming its just left over from the chickens umbilical cord. at least that's what my dad and I are calling it. Two eggs had beaks stickin' out so hopefully I'll have five more to go home to. The ratio and possible mutt types: 1 definite BR/EE cross and 4 BR/BR, BR/RIR, BR/NJG. {We only have one too and he is a Barred Rock so that helps, though it may only be RIR/BR crosses for the brown eggs since we lost our black hens around the time I started collecting the eggs so I don't know if we got some of her eggs or not. Guess I'll find out but I'm really hoping a few more blue eggs hatch! I want a EE roo so bad!

Thanks for the advice and ideas and such on the nipple waterers. It'll help when I start to plan mine!

Ooh yeah! Thank Jchnny hope I can attend id love it! This is a sell/barter thing as well? I may have to arrange the purchasing of chicks or eggs while I'm there.

 

[familytradition]

Our newest dog Belle.

Llewellin setter.

 

[FlockMaster-614]

Aw, familytradition that is such an adorable puppy! Love the coloration. I don't think I've ever heard of a Llewellin setter before though.

 

[familytradition]

Llewellens are very old bloodline of English setters. Her coloring is called blue belton. The numerous black ticking gives her a blue look. The llewelins are smarter and much less hyper than most other English setters.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Right, exactly. I understood that you made the suggestion while we all thought he may have been intentionally selling sick animals. If I still thought that were the case, I'd definitely rat him out. But as you said, the sum of my interactions leads me to believe he's just not very good at keeping them clean. I think (but I don't know this for sure) they may have spent the majority of their time in a 6' by 6' outdoor pen on hard dirt. With four other hens and a roo. Their keel feathers have taken a beating, at any rate. I think this guy is more interested in breeding lines and caring for his "show-quality" birds than anything else. In lighter news, everyone seems to be settling in, and there's an order emerging. It mostly involves Penelope the Mutt: being the Queen of Everything, and everyone else staying out of her way. As I was closing up for the night, she wanted pretty much the entire six feet of roost to herself. She even started picking on the two black orps, which are each twice her size. I know size means nothing compared to attitude in the animal world. So we named most of them last night, and keep in mind that a 6-year-old girl was involved in the decision making process. This is Anne Boleyn This is her cousin, Kathryn Howard. If you don't already know how funny that is, look them up. ;-) Our mostly-white-ish EE is Elsa. I tried to veto the name, but my daughter wouldn't Let It Go. Ha ha. These are the jokes, folks. So of course, one of the Comets is Anna. The other, who is more red and less white, is Ariel. There's a theme, you see. As a side note, the comets are little rockets, and were terribly difficult to get a decent shot of. That just leaves the gray-ish EE. I didn't get a good shot of it. The gender of this bird is in dispute. If we have a hen, she will be Jane Gray. If we have a roo, he will be Gandalf, and we'll be taking him back from whence he came, where hopefully they'll keep the name cause it's awesome. That's about it!

Oh I likey!! I half hope it's a roo so I can get it back lol. BUT YOU DONT GET YOUR 4 DOLLARS BACK!! Lol I kid I kid. Yeah...BYM is definitely queen of everything. She left a power vacuum here.

 

[leslea]

I have a barnyard mutt that I would swear is a roo, if she weren't laying eggs. Very bossy, and this morning she was calling the others to the apple bits I dropped in the run.

Pecking order, right?

Good news!! Chicks are hatching at my house!!
Three out so far. The first, a BR/BR cross. I think because its all black with white on its wing tips, head and a cute lil' bib, s/he hatched at 6:20-30 this morning before I left for church. The second two seemed to have hatched just within the window of 12:00- to now and one is also a BR/BR cross looking one and the third is an adorable little BR/EE cross! I'm so excited about it! Its small but seemingly energetic with steel grey lookin' down though its still wet and covered in egg yuck! Lol when I got down there I checked on them and saw the two still wet chicks climbing around in a bowl full of damp cotton balls. I was afraid they'd drown but fortunately its dry and they are getting their land legs. The ee/be had a large piece of egg on its head and some long thread of pinkish looking stuff wrapping from its leg to its back. Its not tight and it doesn't seem to notice so I'm assuming its just left over from the chickens umbilical cord.

at least that's what my dad and I are calling it. Two eggs had beaks stickin' out so hopefully I'll have five more to go home to. The ratio and possible mutt types: 1 definite BR/EE cross and 4 BR/BR, BR/RIR, BR/NJG. {We only have one too and he is a Barred Rock so that helps, though it may only be RIR/BR crosses for the brown eggs since we lost our black hens around the time I started collecting the eggs so I don't know if we got some of her eggs or not. Guess I'll find out but I'm really hoping a few more blue eggs hatch! I want a EE roo so bad!

Thanks for the advice and ideas and such on the nipple waterers. It'll help when I start to plan mine!

Ooh yeah! Thank Jchnny hope I can attend id love it! This is a sell/barter thing as well? I may have to arrange the purchasing of chicks or eggs while I'm there.

Congrats! What is a BR/BR cross? I know BR is Barred Rock. What else is it?

Llewellin setter.

I've never heard of that, either, but sure is a pretty pup.

Progress today! DH nailed up a bunch more boards, and I made this! I goofed up a lot and DH had to help me some, but mostly I did all the sawing and nailing. He just pulled some nails out for me and nailed up another board at the top of the door when I made it about an inch too short. Whoops! The boards that aren't red are recycled from an IKEA bunkbed. They are coming in handy for all kinds of things. Whatever is left over will be used for my raised beds.



Loving that the trees are greening up, finally.

Also had one of my other sons clean out the coop with a rake. There were old pine shavings in there and a bunch of old nasty poop "rocks." EWwwwww

I wish I had a pressure washer. Will have to figure something out.

My chicks come a week from this coming Tuesday.

My youngest son (the model with the door) says to me "I hope mine is alive when it gets here." I guess I have been to frank about the dangers of shipping. Oh, well, I guess he is "prepared" just in case.

Hope you all enjoyed this awesome weather this weekend.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

I have a barnyard mutt that I would swear is a roo, if she weren't laying eggs. Very bossy, and this morning she was calling the others to the apple bits I dropped in the run.

Weird cause she always told everyone to get the heck away from HER food. And it's ALL -HER- food lol.