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and that is MINE now. I had instructions from my wife to beg, borrow, or steal to get the pair. Steal I did, do I need to say how I paid for the pair?
People started asking aboiut them as soon as I had one the bid and I missed out on the babies.
The rocks that I buried and the electric fence that I put around the pen is already working. The dogs got curious this am and they found the wire, yelped real load, jumped back and ran home, sit and starred at my pen looking like "what was that".
You got that huge Cochin boy?? Wow, he was awesome! Some birds are worth the extra feed and he's one of them.
He's blue based so I'll call him Silver Blue
I'm anxious to see what color the babies will be. I'm only going to hatch out a few from them and just plan on keeping whatever hatches.
I got a picture of them in their quarantine quarters, the little girl is just talking up a storm.
The other picture is of the same bird-I didn't know what in the world they were (I got 2 of them) except they were the coolest looking birds. I love their little hats. The other one looks pretty much the same. Do you all think they're probably Polish mixes? I figured Polish mix instead of Silkie mix because of the lacing. They sure are wild looking. Someone else was bidding on them and I felt really bad for bidding against them but I really wanted them. Someone else wanted the Faverolles pair, too. But I was prepared to sell my husband to get
them so there was no backing down once I decided I wanted those (which was the second I saw them).
I reeeeaaallly like all these birds I got last night.
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http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/ksane/wc.jpg
You are correct on the spitshauben. I brought those to the auction. I bought all of a mans chickens up here at Clinton last week and they were in them. I kept 3 solid black ones of the same breed. Kept all the black hens of other breeds also, the others were big huge hens. I bought a blue NN rooster from Michael. I have 2 blue NN hens now and am going to cross the blue rooster into these black hens to get more as I have had no luck finding any blue NN hens. This way I can control what is in them to a certain degree. But back to the 2 hens you bought. Mine lay a large egg a little off white. They should lay a bunch of eggs as in Germany thatis what they were breed for.
Do you have any pictures of your blue NNs? I'd like to see them, if you do.
Here is a picture of one blue and one black
