Java Thread

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Mottled Javas – 7 weeks old – Gender??
Back for another round of opinions now that these cuties are 7 weeks old and we have to rehome some of our chicks next week. Based on feedback from 2 weeks ago, we’re thinking they are both girls!

#1 – This one has more black on her back.

#2 - she was all over the place, hard to get good shots!

Thanks in advance!
Jeannie
Palo Alto, CA
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[hipeatall]

Check out these sweet little Mottled Java chicks. A local customer hatched these 6 adorable chicks from eggs from our Javas... of course now I want one of my hens to go broody and hatch some babies too!!!

 

[hipeatall]

They look like girls to me! My mottled java roos had very pink combs by 6 weeks... even I could tell they were boys and I am a big time second guesser

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Thanks hipeatall! Actually, these little ones are from your stock as well!! I got them from Cheryl Cohen who said she got the eggs from you! We are so thrilled to have them!!

Jeannie.

 

[hipeatall]

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Thanks hipeatall! Actually, these little ones are from your stock as well!! I got them from Cheryl Cohen who said she got the eggs from you! We are so thrilled to have them!!

Jeannie.

Small small world!

I'm so pleased you got a couple of pullets... they are such sweet girls - wonderful foragers and layers too!

 

[Chickielady]

Hi everyone!
Been gone & busy with gadren & green house & a hundred baby chicks & incubators going

I have 6 Java eggs in the incubator due to pip on the 9th.all developing nicely.
I want to say my Java Cockeral is absolutely stunning & he is the sweetest thing~
Every morning without fail, I pack a treat in my pocket & go open coops.
When I get to the Java coop, I put the treat in a big pir plate type bowl on the ground outside the coop, stand back as far as I can & open the door, and out runs the Java Cockeral, "JC".
He coos and dances all around my feet, tap dancing & cooing and looking up at me.
I bend over & say "what a beautiful boy he is, such a pretty boy, oh look, he can dance !"

He continues the dance a while and then runs to the treat pan.

Every morning!
He makes me smile & brings a irridescence stunning ray of sunshine to my every morning, no matter what my mood or weather, I am smiling & happy afterwards.
I have to place DH out there with the camera and take a video of his dance & good morning greeting but do not think I could post it here, would have to photo bucket it.
Try to do it tomorrow.
We could not go to the show last week...DH's Mom got sick & after 2 weeks she passed away, and he was gone for 3 weeks.
It was very sad...
But hopefully, the Java chicks will be posted here, and JC's morning dance, soon!
Love these birds!!!

 

[haTHOR]

i am so happy to hear that about your roo. i know a lot of folks hae good roos but the reason i always emphasize malcolm (JC's dad) in the my auctions, etc. is because he is just beyond belief on gentleness and gentility...and so, so good with his girls. i am having to put saddles on my EEs in the olive egger pen because my otherwise very gentle FCBM roo is tearing up their backs. malcolm is the best of both worlds--respectful to both me and humans and his girls...protective to boot. i really enjoy hearing these stories!!

hope everything calms down at your place and you get to take the BJs to a show...my kids are excited about you doing so.

but with 100 chicks and fill bators i don't think you'll be settling into a calm pattern anytime soon!

 

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They're here! At long last....after a year of planning, preparing, building, researching, reading, creating......Mama's Java's are here!

Our 11 Java chicks are home! Received 11 one-month old chicks from Garfield Farm today! A local school hatched these as a spring project. Garfield got hit hard by coyotes this winter and lost many, many chickens. I'm grateful for the opportunity to receive ANY after hearing about their heavy losses this winter.

Mercy, are they cute and very very tame. All will sit and let you hold them, all will take treats from your hand gently. However, three are pretty beat up from the brooder they were in - the three white java's. The blacks seem to be picking on the white ones more than other blacks, so perhaps they're seen as 'bottom of the pecking order'? I switched to a red-bulb to minimize pecking at wounds - seemed to make a difference. We also made 'blue' colored neosporin to coat the wounds. (Our local feed store didn't stock bluekote?!) It works to a degree. But there is still much pecking order business going on. I hope they get over it soon! I know I have a black roo, a white roo and likely two additional black (smaller) roos. Which leaves five black hens and two white hens. Not bad for a straight run.

I'll post pictures after I read to figure out how to do that. I'll edit to fit them in here somehow....

these Java's!

 

[Chickielady]

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In addition, Malcom's son here with me, named JC...........is beyond beautiful, BIG, full breasted, irridescent and so gentle.
When I open his coop in the morning, he RUSHES out, and tap dances at my feet & sings to me.
He is super attentive, watches the sky, the brush, and is gentle with his girls.
I have his eggs in the incubator, and hope all have Malcolm's wonderful gentle giant temperment.
he is so special, and wonderful!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE this cockeral!!

 

[Life is Good!]

? Changing from Java chick to adult ?

My Black Java chicks are 5 wks old, and I'm wondering how you can tell an adult's coloring from a chick's face? Several of my chicks have 'stripes' on their faces - wondering when that's going to change to solid black.

Here's some pictures for reference....





As I've not had Java chicks before, this is all new to me! Also, several have white feather 'stripes' or 'spots' on them. Will that remain (mottled?) or does that change also?

Thanks for your help!