NY chicken lover!!!!

[Pyxis]

Py@Pyxis I can't find the post anymore. Were you ordering from Sandhill? If yes I'd like 5 Partridge Penedesenca.

Yes I am, I'll pm you

 

[tao chick]

Py@Pyxis I can't find the post anymore. Were you ordering from Sandhill? If yes I'd like 5 Partridge Penedesenca.

Yes I am, I'll pm you

Thanks!

 

[myfivegirls]

Unrelated note, would anyone like a very pretty OE cockerel? Not aggressive, looks just like his father only not frizzled.

What breeds were his parents? He looks to have a very small comb.

 

[Pyxis]

What breeds were his parents? He looks to have a very small comb.

Very small comb and almost no wattles to speak of, didn't know he was a he until recently when he grew saddle feathers. He was hatched late July. His parents are my frizzle OE rooster Leo, who is descended from marans and I believe ameraucanas with something added for the frizzle gene (Tab bred him, he's from her eggs) and the mother is one of my EE hens, not sure what's in her background, she's just a generic hatchery EE but she lays green eggs.

He's the spitting image of his father, just not frizzled. Daddy Leo:

 

[myfivegirls]

@Pyxis - thanks for the info. If I lived closer to you & didn't already have an absurd number of roosters, then I'd be more tempted take him.
I already have one rooster who may be an OE, but not sure, except that he has slightly feathered feet. Yet, that's no guarantee.
I was drooling over someone's "gray / olive" eggs - but as I was packing up eggs today, I noticed that I had one already!

Yes, I'll post a photo - but it's on my phone & I'm on my laptop now.

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On a sad note, I lost my Blue Barnevelder rooster today. I'd switched roosters, so he was "fenced out" of his coop/separated,
yet he still had the main winter flock where he'd visited during the day for several weeks. I couldn't find him last night, look for him, but didn't find him.
This morning, though, I saw him huddled in the 5+ inches of snow, very cold. No frostbite, but visibly very cold & weak.
I gave him food and water, and was going to check on him, but forgot until this evening, when I found him dead.
I think the drastic changes in temperature with no shelter overnight did it. It was 40* yesterday, down to like 12* this am with snow,
then hardly reaching 20* during the day today. Even though, he survived -20* temps last winter - yet he stayed inside the coop that day!
I'll miss him, as he was a sweet, very gentle rooster.







Thankfully, he passed his good looks, genetics & personality onto several of his daughters. So, he served his purpose & I guess it was his time to go.

 

[myfivegirls]

 

[Peep This 6]

Are you sure about that minimum order? I just ran my zip and they quoted me 6 bantams; 4 large or 5 mixed I have ordered a min of 6 from them before.

Yeah, until the end of March it's a 15 min. We are hoping to have them in the middle of March

 

[tao chick]

Yeah, until the end of March it's a 15 min. We are hoping to have them in the middle of March

Hi Peep This. Welcome. I frequently go to the Herkimer TSC and will let you know what they have. I plan to have EE hatching by Chickenstock, but unfortunately I can't sex them and won't know their gender until >8 weeks old usually. I usually sell them straight run for 2-5/chick depending on what I set. I know my SIL is hatching some pretty egg colors now but don't know her plans. They aren't EE per say but have blue and brown egg laying genes.

 

[Gramma Chick]

On a sad note, I lost my Blue Barnevelder rooster today.

So Sorry He was a Beauty ...I hate it when I cant find a chicken ..
Is it possible he was injured and couldnt come in ?

 

[myfivegirls]

He was fine when I last saw him, he'd flown over the one fence to try to get back to his hens. He was pacing the fence line, and I figured I'd find him when I went to close up the coops. I think he got "lost" trying to find his way back to his hens. Poor guy, should have just let him stay with his ladies.
Later, when I looked for him, but it was pretty dark out there. When I found him this morning, he'd wandered into an area where there was tall weeds from last year, near the outside fence line. He didn't look injured, just very cold & all his neck/head feathers fluffed up. He might have been ok if I'd brought him inside, but I thought he'd perk back up with food and water. He wasn't that old either, hatched 2015.
Thankfully, though I do have some of his eggs in the incubator now & I'll see if I can collect more from his group, as it'll take awhile before the new rooster's genetics "effect".