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[boskelli1571]

@Aria there's a newbie on here: FishMtFarm - she's seems to have a herd of Silkies.
@Pyxis Rare breed auctions has a 'violacious' Ayam Cemani for sale - a cool $2,000!! thought you might be interested....

Certainly is breezy Grammachick my little ones have stayed in the barn, frightened of taking off I think! Well, mucked out the rabbits annnnnd ...we have New Year kits! They seen to be only a few days old. Now I really must get my butt into gear and pop off a few of the juvenile males....

 

[myfivegirls]

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Interesting article - I've seen many times when they are smarter than other people give them credit for.


I've been letting my turkeys out during the day, so they hang out with the chickens. Their hanging bucket feeder was higher than most chickens could reach, but soon they discovered their 21% feed. How they know it's more protein, I don't know! So, I raised up the bucket even more, but still they seemed to be going through more feed than when they were "cooped" up (so they'd know where home was, since they'd been on pasture during the summer). Anyways, I watched today as a group of hens and one rooster, my Blue Laced Barnevelder, were trying desperately to get the turkey's feed, even though it was several feet off the ground. I watched as the rooster circled the feeder, then jumped up, and quickly grabbed one "pellet", often sending another pellet to the ground where the hens grabbed it. It would have been much easier to just go over & eat their own layer mash from the feeder that's at their level! The extra energy it takes for him to leap in the air repeatably to get a few pellets, I'd think would outweigh the benefit of "stealing" the higher protein. So, I raised up the feeder even higher, and checked back later, and they'd left the turkey's coop in search of easier to get food!

they want them live with "big head thing" and 4-8 months old. They loved my production red boy for his side and "fancy" head. No EE though they are not fancy heads.

So, they just like roosters with large single combs. That's pretty easy, as the further along I get in my Catskill Homesteader breeding, the more I'm trying to cull out the single combed roosters. Even though they're easier to tell who's male/female as chicks if they're single-combed, I prefer the roosters to have small combs. Well, any extra roosters beyond the 3 I'm growing out for guy who likes them "NY dressed", I'll keep that in mind.
Are they in the same town as you? Even though you're a bit of a drive, it's not much further than going to Unadilla auction - which seems to be a dead-end street unless I'm desperate & don't care if I "give them away". I'd love to get a group of people who prefer "ethnic chickens" - I don't mind them one bit. But the general American public have gotten spoiled by the Cornish, so the regular "dual-purpose" chickens are of little value. I know the guy I've supplied a few times was very pleased that they were "so lean" and didn't have "so much meat" like those store chickens. I was nervous at first, because I thought they'd be "too small", but that's how he prefers them.

 

[Pyxis]

[COLOR=0000CD]@Aria
[/COLOR] there's a newbie on here: FishMtFarm - she's seems to have a herd of Silkies.
[COLOR=0000CD]@Pyxis
[/COLOR] Rare breed auctions has a 'violacious' Ayam Cemani for sale - a cool $2,000!! thought you might be interested....

Certainly is breezy [COLOR=0000CD]Grammachick[/COLOR] my little ones have stayed in the barn, frightened of taking off I think!  Well, mucked out the rabbits annnnnd ...we have New Year kits!  They seen to be only a few days old. Now I really must get my butt into gear and pop off a few of the juvenile males....

Lol, I can't even find the auction and I have no clue what a 'violacious' AC is!

 

[boskelli1571]

Lol, I can't even find the auction and I have no clue what a 'violacious' AC is!

rarebreedauctions.com - the bird certainly has some interesting colors - but for $2000 it had better produce golden eggs

 

[boskelli1571]

I can't get this to link, but here's the article I was mentioning: www.freefromharm.org/chicken-behavior-an-overview-of -recent-science. It is a bit long but well worth the read.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Interesting article - I've seen many times when they are smarter than other people give them credit for.


I've been letting my turkeys out during the day, so they hang out with the chickens. Their hanging bucket feeder was higher than most chickens could reach, but soon they discovered their 21% feed. How they know it's more protein, I don't know! So, I raised up the bucket even more, but still they seemed to be going through more feed than when they were "cooped" up (so they'd know where home was, since they'd been on pasture during the summer). Anyways, I watched today as a group of hens and one rooster, my Blue Laced Barnevelder, were trying desperately to get the turkey's feed, even though it was several feet off the ground. I watched as the rooster circled the feeder, then jumped up, and quickly grabbed one "pellet", often sending another pellet to the ground where the hens grabbed it. It would have been much easier to just go over & eat their own layer mash from the feeder that's at their level! The extra energy it takes for him to leap in the air repeatably to get a few pellets, I'd think would outweigh the benefit of "stealing" the higher protein. So, I raised up the feeder even higher, and checked back later, and they'd left the turkey's coop in search of easier to get food!


So, they just like roosters with large single combs. That's pretty easy, as the further along I get in my Catskill Homesteader breeding, the more I'm trying to cull out the single combed roosters. Even though they're easier to tell who's male/female as chicks if they're single-combed, I prefer the roosters to have small combs. Well, any extra roosters beyond the 3 I'm growing out for guy who likes them "NY dressed", I'll keep that in mind.
Are they in the same town as you? Even though you're a bit of a drive, it's not much further than going to Unadilla auction - which seems to be a dead-end street unless I'm desperate & don't care if I "give them away". I'd love to get a group of people who prefer "ethnic chickens" - I don't mind them one bit. But the general American public have gotten spoiled by the Cornish, so the regular "dual-purpose" chickens are of little value. I know the guy I've supplied a few times was very pleased that they were "so lean" and didn't have "so much meat" like those store chickens. I was nervous at first, because I thought they'd be "too small", but that's how he prefers them.

I will gladly take you outcast boys. If you want to bring them here instead of auction I'm sure we can make a plan that gets us both money for feed.

 

[Lapeerian]

This is not as easy as I thought! The first one is definitely an AC mix - she must be out of Pretty Boy and my black OE girl, which definitely explains the egg color. The second one looks to be out of Pretty Boy with that rose comb and must have been out of my NN hen. Was the barred one a cockerel? I only have one barred bird in my flock, a cream legbar hen, and she's in with the cemanis, so I would expect that her offspring would be much darker, but it looks like he didn't get any fibro. Because of how sex linking works, any of her offspring that are barred would have to be males.

I don't have any ABs but I know Metella does, did you get eggs from her too? If so she could tell you if the splash and the blue are ABs or not. To me they look like they could be.

The cemani pullet in the background is very pretty though, and so is the roo! How is he growing out? I don't see any color leakage which is great. Looks like his comb and wattles might be turning mulberry though.

Yes I got AB eggs from Metella as well. The barred roo looked more like a rock, no fibro at all showing. The NN does have light barring. The AC roo is the new main man I think, he is beautiful but is normal colored inside his mouth and has some mulberry. I'll have to get some recent pics of them when the weather improves. Hoping to take the AC pair to fair.



This photo relates to a hilarious story I wrote on my blog - "Are Chickens Really Dumb?"
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My kids were trying to roost in the pines as well when training to the coop. Trying to find the AC kids in the dark was a challenge!

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Lol, I can't even find the auction and I have no clue what a 'violacious' AC is!

having a violet tint to ts black.

 

[dcba flock]

rarebreedauctions.com  - the bird certainly has some interesting colors - but for $2000 it had better produce golden eggs

I saw the "violicious" chicken that is "fancy".... I did not see a golden egg in the background of the pic.... I think she was traded that for a different bird tho. Lmao... That's a very expensive bird and I need to google that word even w/ a decent vocabulary lol

 

[Pyxis]

Found the auction finally, I was looking under AC and he's not listed as an AC. No way would I be spending $2000 for a crossbreed - especially not when some purebred ACs already have that trait anyway.