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[Kyzmette]

Oh bey, does anybody in northeast OK do Exchequer Leghorns?

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm thinking at least one of mine is a mottled, which is what I was wanting. I'd be tempted to part with most of them just because I don't need a bunch of hugely fluffy lovechickies that I'll just get attached to, but if the mottling doesn't come in until later that would be disappointing. Although I could probably rehome the chocolates.

I still haven't figured out that buff color.

Mottled chicks have a white on bottom / colored on top similar to a penguin color pattern as fluffy chicks.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Mottled chicks have a white on bottom / colored on top similar to a penguin color pattern as fluffy chicks.

These are some of my mottled orpington chicks if that helps you.


I had exchequers a few years ago, but sold them. Didn't care for their personality (typical psycho leghorns). I know Jamie Watters in Texas has them, Watters Ridge Farm, she has a website and a FB page.

 

[Kyzmette]

These are some of my mottled orpington chicks if that helps you. I had exchequers a few years ago, but sold them. Didn't care for their personality (typical psycho leghorns). I know Jamie Watters in Texas has them, Watters Ridge Farm, she has a website and a FB page.

Thanks tons! I had a couple that looked like that as new hatches, so I have hope! The main one I'm eyeing now is white on the bottom, black on the top, but has the faintest little pale dots on the head and shoulders. Wouldn't it be nice to have "plumage progression" charts for breeds? And what is it about laying white eggs that's so crazy-making? Minorcas are the same way. I had one Minoca that was so flighy she broke her neck flying against the enclosure on their coop. The honeysuckle is in bloom! This area of the property smells divine. I'm going out today to pick some, and I'm going to try my hand at honeysuckle jelly and syrup. Kass, I wish you lived closer, because I'd bring you a bucket or two for honeysuckle wine.

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks tons! I had a couple that looked like that as new hatches, so I have hope! The main one I'm eyeing now is white on the bottom, black on the top, but has the faintest little pale dots on the head and shoulders.

Wouldn't it be nice to have "plumage progression" charts for breeds?

And what is it about laying white eggs that's so crazy-making? Minorcas are the same way. I had one Minoca that was so flighy she broke her neck flying against the enclosure on their coop.

The honeysuckle is in bloom! This area of the property smells divine. I'm going out today to pick some, and I'm going to try my hand at honeysuckle jelly and syrup. Kass, I wish you lived closer, because I'd bring you a bucket or two for honeysuckle wine.

You will see the mottling in the young chicks real feathers coming in, but the amount of mottling won't be permanent until after the first molt.

 

[MrsDickey]

I had ask about the differences between delawares and Columbian rocks. I think I have one of each... any thoughts??

 

[SharkmanDan]

I'm thinking of going to the Moffett Livestock Auction with some of these chicks I have, tomorrow morning. Anybody thinking of going?

Well, that was a bust. Apparently, the auctioneer sold the auction to someone else, and the day and location were changed, but the original auctioneer, never mentioned that on his website. He still had today listed.we felt kind of stupid, being the ONLY folks showing up, to the livestock auction grounds. So, I got to spend the day with a good chicken man, learning stuff, but we didn't sell anything.

Good times!

 

[SharkmanDan]

@ sharkman I got the lumber today to make mine today. I need to put plastic on the floor because it's treated lumber. It has to stay outside when not in use. Once it gets rained on and dries a couple times it will be fine. I'm going to put wheels on it because I used to drag the old one around with the tractor and that's why I need a new one. I'll make it not as high this time, more in line with yours but longer. I leave the birds in quite awhile, so they'll need the room. They stay in the shop with the brood light until they don't need the heat.
I wasn't so serious about this until I got on this site!

One suggestion. Either have a small, short catch net, or make it only as deep (front to back) as you can easily reach, or make the whole top removable. I had a heckuva time catching the little critters, to take to the auction, this morning. Then the auction was canceled.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Was just hanging out, with the birds, for this brief respite in the weather, before round number 5,346, for this year hits us, and noticed my Black Jersey Giant rooster, crouched down, on the ground, like something was wrong. Normally, he's quite the "Cock of the walk", but tonight, he seemed very placid. One of the turkey hens came by him, and pecked at him, pretty severely. He just took it. Soon, the other turkey hen came over, and pecked him, and he got up, and limped away, towards the tom turkey, almost like the tom, was to be his protector. My tom, typically very aggressive and dominant, was actually nice to him.
So, I went and tracked him down, caught him, and looked him over. Sure enough, he had an open wound on his left foot, and sign of infection going on. The foot was hot and swollen. So, I grabbed my emergency medical kit, told my wife to get her stool and a pillowcase, and proceeded to get set up, to do bumblefoot surgery on him. Fortunately, for him, it was a fairly minor case, compared to the case that got me initiated into chicken surgery. We got the kernel out. Flushed him with iodine then penicillin, then injected him with 3cc of penicillin, in the thigh of the affected foot. Then bandaged it well, and put him back in the coop. He would have gone in a recovery pen, but with over 100 chicks right now, I have no hospital room/brooders available. But, last year, when I did my first bumblefoot surgery, on a RIR hen, I had none then either, and she did fine, with it being re bandaged and a new injection, every two days.
Anyone have any better solutions?

 

[Ironsights]

That bites about the auction! Bumble foot? Is that a thorn or grass seed? If the bird got well sounds like you did good.
Little catch net sounds like a good idea!