Mixed breeds

[Nike]

Hdowden - the picture is from awhile back and I did treat for scaly leg mites. It sucked!! That rooster passed away in December 2010 but he lives on through his daughter there and I can't wait until next spring to keep the generations going!

Thiefpouter - it's not trimmed but the first winter I had him he did really poorly in the cold and I even had a heat lamp plus the vasseline on the comb and all the points got frostbite and in spring they fell off. He never was bothered by it, tough guy lol

 

[hdowden]

Hdowden - the picture is from awhile back and I did treat for scaly leg mites. It sucked!! That rooster passed away in December 2010 but he lives on through his daughter there and I can't wait until next spring to keep the generations going
yea mites of any kind suck. i'm sorry he passed away at least you do have one of his kiddos though. i had a pack of large dogs attack my birds and i lost a great cockerel but i manged to hatch 2 of his babies from his pullets that had only been laying for at least 2 weeks and so far both of the babies look like pullets.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

Melvin is still the head of the flock. I jut got back into pigeon so I am using them for my avatar.

SCratch that. I cam home to find the hens running to me squacking and melvin nowhere to be seen. That means something got him. one today one yesterday.

 

[Nike]

Wow! Only two weeks?! I didn't even know they were already fertile then. That's good you wre able to do that. It's like a way to honor them. Do you have picture on this thread of them?

 

[hdowden]

the group of pics i posted last the last 2 pics are pics of one of his babies and they both so far are pullets

 

[Arkansas81]

Howdy All!

we finally figured out who is laying~it's Ruby our small white leghorn, I was for sure it was Ezmae the bigger of the two. Ruby held out till 5pm today. She lays at the hottest part of the day, 12-1. My daughter was thrilled to know for sure. Loving the chicken business!!!!

 

[Gardeningmama]

Howdy All!

we finally figured out who is laying~it's Ruby our small white leghorn, I was for sure it was Ezmae the bigger of the two. Ruby held out till 5pm today. She lays at the hottest part of the day, 12-1. My daughter was thrilled to know for sure. Loving the chicken business!!!!

Congrats on figuring it out. I still don't know who lays and who doesn't in my flock. Eventually I guess I'll just assume they all lay, and mystery solved.

 

[Gardeningmama]

SCratch that. I cam home to find the hens running to me squacking and melvin nowhere to be seen. That means something got him. one today one yesterday.

Awww.. I'm so sorry, I truly liked Melvin, especially his name, just something about it. Maybe I'll use it for one of my 10 roo's. Then in a sense Melvin will live on.

R.I.P. Melvin

 

[ThiefPouter06]

I may continue the name of Melvin on. As many as I lose to predators here there may be many melvins.

 

[jennibos]

Sorry to but in. I have two cream legbars and have just hatched 5 white leghorns. I know I will prob end up with at least one leghorn roo. What I would like to know is will the chicks hatched between the leghorn roo and legbar hen would they still lay a blue egg or will it then become a white egg? Who carries the shell gene? Sorry still a novice here!