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[bird/wire]

Thank you Thank you Thank you!

I am so pleased to know what I have, I am just hoping some of them turn out to be hens...ya'll have to advise me about what to do with my "surplus" roos...I'm in town so when they crow they have got to GO!

I got 17 just hoping I would end up with tiny cute 6 hens...and all the frizzies are looking like boys? My daughter will be crushed! She loves those fluffy ones! I would cross post in the what do I have forum but I am short on time to go fussing around with figuring out how to make that work. Mayhaps when the weekend brou-ha-ha is over I will see to that.

As to the buff sebright, if he is a boy he has to go...are you saying I should hold out for some feed money? ;-)

Off to fetch the children,

Kelly

 

[jcatblum]

For the buff the ones @ the sale were good looking & think he ended up paying $10.50 or $11 each for them. Other birds were going real cheap so it was a good $$$ that night. With them getting buffs @ the feed store they may become plentiful REAl fast around here. Never know!

Michael can help with Roos usually-- not as much market for bantam Roos, but Michael will always take & rehome the extras! If there isn't an ordinance against roosters you should be fine. Usually only 1 will crow & it will be the most dominate, especially when they are all raised together. They usually only crow a few times a day--for 5 or 10 min-- unless they find someone to crow back @ them.

 

[faerielady]

Depends on the ordinances... my town (outside OKC) doesn't have an anti-rooster ordinance. What they'll get ya with is a noise ordinance violation.

So I house the breeding roosters I keep (I keep 2, and only 2, for projects) in the mudroom at night so the crowing doesn't irritate my neighbors... because if my neighbors complain, the roos have to go.

 

[sjarvis00]

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For your spare cockrells give them to Micheal... he will find them homes, they hold little value in sales.
the OE you will know within 3 weeks,

the Buff sebright would hold some value as an adult, if he turns out to be anything like a sebright, would do better as a pair anyway.. too many hatchery sebrights are huge and bear little resemblance to a sebright.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Jcat,
I fyou have a buff rooster and good quality Golden hens you cross the two varieties, you will get 100% Buff pullets, cockrells will be a bit different in appearances. That will improve the quality and number of Buffs.

 

[jcatblum]

Quote:
Jcat,
I fyou have a buff rooster and good quality Golden hens you cross the two varieties, you will get 100% Buff pullets, cockrells will be a bit different in appearances. That will improve the quality and number of Buffs.

That is good to know--- 1st have to talk the girls into laying eggs.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

Had a photo opp with this little duckwing silkied serama cockerel...this was his first time on the table.

 

[bfrancis]

Ok_Junebug, nice pics! He's a cute little guy...how "friendly" are those little buggers? What do you for housing? just curious...they always look very breakable.

 

[bfrancis]

guess I'm the thread killer tonight....

 

[muesky]

Okay I have to post because I am devestated and brokenhearted. I got home from work today to find 80% of my flock dead, eaten or carried away. In broad daylight. All my turkeys but one was killed, or drug off and the one left will probably not survive the night she is so torn up. Aside from the few I had in the grow out pen, about 15 birds including the peacocks (thank the powers that be they were in there). I have found 9 stragglers all but two of them have bite marks on them. It looks like a lot of huge dogs, I say huge because they carried a 35lb male turkey over the fence. These animals even broke into my quarantine pen and killed all but two of my millie fleur hens and one of the giant cochins I got from Carl and Stephanie. I know what direction they left but I could not follow their trail far. I have 4 of the worse hurt in the house doctoring them and the rest out in the coop yard in lock down.
By the way does anyone want to buy a couple of llamas?