Modern game bantams...

[GotGame]

Nice looking birds everyone. Really like that splash pullet. I'm back into moderns after losing all my chicks last year. Started out simple this time, a quad of blacks. Can't get their color wrong, . May ad a blue of splash hen to it if I can find a decent one, make some blues. Anyway, good luck with everyone's birds .

 

[juliechick]

Thanks, GotGame. Good luck with your blacks.

 

[mcrooke45]

The lacing on my little blue pullet is coming in nice.

 

[GotGame]

I'm picking up a blue hen and a splash hen this weekend, to go with my blacks.

 

[GotGame]

I ended up picking up a blue hen, black hen and a pair of splash modern, so that leaves me with 4 black hens and a black cock, and a splash pair and a blue hen. Should be plenty to work with .

 

[mcrooke45]

Don't ever think you have completely predator proofed a pen. I had a pen 5ft off the ground with 1/2inch grill wire around it thinking that would keep critters out. Somehow something climbed up and killed my splash rooster and pulled him somehow through that 1/2 inch grill and ate half of him. He was 13 inches tall and they squeezed half of him through that thin wire.

I am very upset because I was going to use him in a project of mine.

Out of 12 moderns, I am down to 1 cockerel and 4 pullets. Something has killed most of them. I think it has to be coons. I am going to stay up at night and stand guard over my chickens and shoot anything that moves!

Very upset right now!
Mark

 

[juliechick]

I'm sorry that happened to your birds! If you haven't already got the coon (or coons), set a live trap for the varmit.

 

[mcrooke45]

I have already got 9 eggs out of one of my pullets. She is only 7 months old and laying!

They are all in the incubator. Five hatch this sunday!

 

[mcrooke45]

Here are some new pictures of a few of my birds

the blue pullet does not have gold in her. The sun was glaring in the pen.


the little splash pullet almost looks like a blue mottled.

I am getting ready to dub the little cockerel.
Mark

 

[juliechick]

Nice looking birds.