Jacin's Poultry 2022

[ColtHandorf]

Have someone coming to pick up the other orpington girl.

Also separate most of the males by now, still working on cages though. Have 5 males I'm going to post on my FB state group to see if I can get them moved somewhere that isn't looking to eat them. I wish I could keep them all sometimes

Orpington?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Orpington?

Yep. I ended up with 2 pairs last spring of the white Americans. 1 pair is going to a friend, a different friend took the other female and I'm hoping to rehome the last male to a different flock.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I knew it was going to be those Whites. You need you some floofy ones. Once I get a male and some more on the ground I can send you eggs for test hatching.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I knew it was going to be those Whites. You need you some floofy ones. Once I get a male and some more on the ground I can send you eggs for test hatching.

They're quite nice looking now, but definitely less round appearing than the English. My mom enjoyed watching the unhomed male wander around before he was penned up.

 

[ColtHandorf]

She'll enjoy these more.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

She probably would, honestly. She just loves that image of a big, clean, polite male strutting around and behaving

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Threw some mixed eggs from the 2021 pen in a pheonix box, going to see if I can get one to set.

One of the new silkies and either the new duccle or polish bantam laid today. So they're settling in well.

The duccle pullet has vision issues. My friend says she thinks a bigger bird pecked her when she got loose a few months ago, but she seems to do fine as long as she can see the polish nearby. She's also the tamest by far of the six, her mate probably being the second. The silkies are flighty like my original 3 are, and the polish.... she's nuts

 

[ColtHandorf]

I just got some Buttercup hens and I think one of them is partially blind. 15 years ago I had some that were. I wonder if that's a genetic predisposition the breed has.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I just got some Buttercup hens and I think one of them is partially blind. 15 years ago I had some that were. I wonder if that's a genetic predisposition the breed has.

I suppose if somewhere someone decided more chicks was worth breeding a bird that went blind without cause.

My little girl has what looks like a cataract or bundle of scratches on one eye. The other is clear but doesn't react to light very well. Probably why she's so friendly honestly, since she can't really escape she's uncomfortable. I've never dealt with a blind bird before except ones that are obviously sick and being culled, so I can't say if she's doing a good job or not.

Takes some time to find the food (water is a bit easier, it seems..... or maybe she can see the black bowl easier than the white. I'll have to try that theory tomorrow ), but when she's just walking with the polish, she appears like any other bird

 

[ColtHandorf]

Two of them were completely blind. One hen and her daughter. I test set a few eggs and the chick that developed was just as blind as their mom. I made them a small round pen where there weren't any corners. A broomstick as a roost pole low to the ground and food and water that were always in the same spot and they lived for many years. The lawnmower terrified them. And if I moved their pen closer to a rooster, for instance, the first few times they'd crow the girls would just stop and blindly stare around before they got used to it.

This girl I just noticed a bit of cloudiness in her left eye. She's getting around fine, but I'll keep an eye on her. Now I need to find a male. This breeder lost her rooster, and the breeder she got them from also lost her rooster. Ughh.