INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Rhandi74]

Ohh come on! They are so unusual! I gotta have them! I don't think they have been imported yet. But once they have, watch out! I'm also looking for standard moderns and possibly Ko Shamos. Then I should be finished lol

The Ko Shamos are very neat also. They remind me of a chicken version of the Indian runner duck.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I'm in Mooresville, Morgan County. Just south of Indy

87 miles

 

[ChickCrazed]

Ahh, that wonderful feeling when you've finished your homework for the day..!

Anyway!
Yeah, is it me or is it really hard to capture that color in a picture? Actually, it's not just them--seems like most of my girls with wildtype partridge-based colorations are tricky to get good pictures of! My Dorkings, my Legbar, and Violet, here, especially.

I think that's an Easter-egger thing! I have a sweet, if somewhat air-headed Easter-egger that gives me the same kind of look.

She actually looks quite menacing!

I agree, very hard to capture the color. The Lighting has to be just right or you end up washing the color out. I've taken so many pictures just to get a few that get close to their real color. Nothing properly shows their size though. They are so much prettier in person. I'm sure everyone says that about their birds but I swear its true! LOL

 

[bradselig]

@bradselig


I see that there was a "train" from VA to IN on the swap forum.  I was trying to find someone to bring me a bird from VA and just missed it

Is that CPLs forum? I didn't know you were on there if it is! Be sure to post as the last time I talked with her she was cleaning house of people who have joined but not been active.

 

[ellymayRans]

I recently had someone tell me that I should *not try to bond with the peacocks because if they lose their fear of you, they have a tendency to become mean. I had heard exactly the opposite before that and haven't had the time to do my homework on the issue. What has been your experience? I was hoping I could baby them like I do my chickens.

I have read the same thing but have found that a fellow BYCER has many many peas and is very hands on with hers for many years with no ill repercussions. I have read that plenty about Roos too and I have never had a bad moment with any of mine. I have plenty of them so I would never say that approach would be a bad one. I've only had my Peas for about a year now and they were not little when I got them. I don't work with them as much as I could but the little I do they still follow me around the yard and are almost to the point of eating out of my hands. I have never been afraid of them nor thought twice about swatting down with my back to them. Who knows if them being penned might make the difference but all here are free range.

 

[chick rookie]

Okay, now, some bugs freak me out, but bees and hornets and things do so for a different reason--I don't want to be stung or bitten or anything else! So mealworms give me the heebie-jeebies, but anything that stings or bites or otherwise causes me harm just freaking scares me.

No, this isn't a Welsummer... Not sure what it is from this picture. Here is a Welsummer chick, my little Mabel when she was younger:



As for what your chick is... My best guess from this picture is Easter-egger, but I couldn't tell you for sure.

I just love Cochins. I wish I had enough room to add some to my flock.
Hey, Cheetah, long time no see!

I knew they were darker then her cause I raised 4 of them this spring, was just wonder if they could be lighter as a chick cause I had 1 ee egg hatch, and 2 brown eggs hatched, 1 is a BR so that left wellie just based on it looks like a light colored Wellie chick. That was my way of thinking anyway... EE's can lay brown eggs, Right? I still have 1 EE that is not laying yet? Maybe she is and she lays a brown egg? I cant wait to see how she feathers out...


Does anyone have a way to break a hen from roosting in a tree??? Every night I have to get her out of the tree and put her in the coop, have been doing this since I got her. She is an older EE. and she don't like sleeping with the others. I really don't want her sleeping alone this winter in a tree and I'm getting tired of climbing that dang thing!!

 

[kabhyper1]

I knew they were darker then her cause I raised 4 of them this spring, was just wonder if they could be lighter as a chick cause I had 1 ee egg hatch, and 2 brown eggs hatched, 1 is a BR so that left wellie just based on it looks like a light colored Wellie chick. That was my way of thinking anyway... EE's can lay brown eggs, Right? I still have 1 EE that is not laying yet? Maybe she is and she lays a brown egg? I cant wait to see how she feathers out...


Does anyone have a way to break a hen from roosting in a tree??? Every night I have to get her out of the tree and put her in the coop, have been doing this since I got her. She is an older EE. and she don't like sleeping with the others. I really don't want her sleeping alone this winter in a tree and I'm getting tired of climbing that dang thing!!

White plastic sheeting is breaking mine in the barn on the fence rails. can you throw something like that or a tarp over the branch she is roosting on? Or put an open umbrella at the base of the tree where she can't fly up into it?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Hey, that is it. The fort time I saw them I thought something was wrong with them

Same here! There was also a video circling the net that showed a flock standing around. They seem like they walk very tenderly. It makes me wonder if it isn't uncomfortable for them to be like that!

Ohh come on! They are so unusual! I gotta have them! I don't think they have been imported yet. But once they have, watch out! I'm also looking for standard moderns and possibly Ko Shamos. Then I should be finished lol

[COLOR=3B6281] The only game breed I've found attractive in looking at various breeds are Old English Game Bantams. They are on my special list of breeds I want to preserve! The freaky upright ones don't do it for me, except maybe those little Moderns of yours. [/COLOR]

I recently had someone tell me that I should *not try to bond with the peacocks because if they lose their fear of you, they have a tendency to become mean. I had heard exactly the opposite before that and haven't had the time to do my homework on the issue. What has been your experience? I was hoping I could baby them like I do my chickens.

I have read the same thing but have found that a fellow BYCER has many many peas and is very hands on with hers for many years with no ill repercussions. I have read that plenty about Roos too and I have never had a bad moment with any of mine. I have plenty of them so I would never say that approach would be a bad one. I've only had my Peas for about a year now and they were not little when I got them. I don't work with them as much as I could but the little I do they still follow me around the yard and are almost to the point of eating out of my hands. I have never been afraid of them nor thought twice about swatting down with my back to them. Who knows if them being penned might make the difference but all here are free range.

I've read the same thing about ducks, so I've been wondering about this as well. It's the same story with them, raising the drakes as pets results in aggressive drakes.

I've not had positive experiences raising roosters hands-on, so that to me lends some merit to that advise. I've had a lot of mean, mean roosters as a result of raising them hands-on and any advice I followed to try correcting bad behaviors with my boys was met with escalating aggression, so I personally do not raise chicken roosters hands-on anymore. My little Cochin guy, Po, was a hands-off raised rooster and the best boy I've ever raised, the only one I could trust around my little niece and nephew, though that probably had a lot to do with his breed as well. I love Cochins! Point is, my experiences have kind of pointed me toward believing the usual hands-off advise, at least for chickens.

As far as other species, since there's so much conflicting data and I have no experience... It feels like one of those huge life choices, because if you mess it up, it's pretty much a disaster! I wish someone would figure this stuff out for absolutely sure already!

I knew they were darker then her cause I raised 4 of them this spring, was just wonder if they could be lighter as a chick cause I had 1 ee egg hatch, and 2 brown eggs hatched, 1 is a BR so that left wellie just based on it looks like a light colored Wellie chick. That was my way of thinking anyway... EE's can lay brown eggs, Right? I still have 1 EE that is not laying yet? Maybe she is and she lays a brown egg?  I cant wait to see how she feathers out... 

Welsummers generally look like the baby I posted. I would bet your baby came out of a brown EE egg. That's a pattern I've seen on a few EE chicks. And yes, since Easter-eggers are usually not pure in the same sense as true breeds, and since the blue egg gene is dominant and so will show up if a bird carries only one allele, it's actually not uncommon for Easter-eggers to lay brown eggs as a result of not inheriting a blue egg gene.

 

[flyladyrocks]

Ohh come on! They are so unusual! I gotta have them! I don't think they have been imported yet. But once they have, watch out! I'm also looking for standard moderns and possibly Ko Shamos. Then I should be finished lol

 

[flyladyrocks]

So I've figured out one real benefit to not having the time to get on here very often. The level of my chicken/chick envy and downright covetousness drastically decreases! With the exception of the Ga Nos - sorry Brad, finally found a chicken I really don't want!