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[Sooner]

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that was one goal. columbian is not the easiest pattern to get right it's actually fairly easy to mess up and harder to recover from if one doesn't know what to look for. So Wayne and I thought we would share rather than have folks get away from the color. You see it's the same pattern as Light and coronation Sussex, Columbian Wyandotte, Light Brahma and many others..
I will have Columbian Rosecomb by the middle of next year, although I have to make them. It is one of those colors that just pop when you see it with the contrast of black and white. I feel the need to make a blue version as well in OE and probably Rosecomb once they are going to gain more interest.
madison and you really need a Trio each, and when the rosecombs are ready them too.

By that time I should be ready, I have a new plan for pens. I will only have two large pens & the rest will be turned into 6'x4' pens that I can walk into. This will be for quads or breeding & if any are open they can hold juvies. I have managed to get rid of several & still hope to thin down alittle more but DD can only take so much at once. I am considering letting go of the Lemon blue OEGB but can't seem to make up my mind.

 

[sjarvis00]

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that was one goal. columbian is not the easiest pattern to get right it's actually fairly easy to mess up and harder to recover from if one doesn't know what to look for. So Wayne and I thought we would share rather than have folks get away from the color. You see it's the same pattern as Light and coronation Sussex, Columbian Wyandotte, Light Brahma and many others..
I will have Columbian Rosecomb by the middle of next year, although I have to make them. It is one of those colors that just pop when you see it with the contrast of black and white. I feel the need to make a blue version as well in OE and probably Rosecomb once they are going to gain more interest.
madison and you really need a Trio each, and when the rosecombs are ready them too.

By that time I should be ready, I have a new plan for pens. I will only have two large pens & the rest will be turned into 6'x4' pens that I can walk into. This will be for quads or breeding & if any are open they can hold juvies. I have managed to get rid of several & still hope to thin down alittle more but DD can only take so much at once. I am considering letting go of the Lemon blue OEGB but can't seem to make up my mind.

The Lemon Blue male you have is very nice, but that is one of teh hardest varieties to get right due to dilution of hackle, and body color. if you decide to let him go you might want to check with Richard Besser, (SplitSocket22) he has been working on lemon blue for quite a while and would likely be able to use that bird.

 

[NanaKat]

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I knew it!
upcdayz, hahahaha! That baby chick looks mad! What an ingenious way to fix the problem!

I thought the piggy was cute too. She sent about 6 photos...I just posted one.

Here is a photo of the CW rooster from about a month ago. You can compare him to the one year old hens next to him for size.

 

[Sooner]

splitsocket when you see this if you are interested shoot me a PM, he is a mean little bugger & I just feel bad because he doesn't get shown enough.

Thanks Carl. I would rather him go to someone that would use him rather than an auction.

 

[Ksane]

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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.

Are they mixes or purebred? They look purebred after looking at the pictures of Spitshauben, Okla was right, wasn't he? Well thank you so much for taking them there

They're the coolest birds and are really super sweet, they love to be held. I told my husband to bid up to $8 each for them and when the bid got up to $8 I told him to go up to $15 lol Lucky for me I ended up getting them for under $20. I really wanted them. Did you see those awesome Dark Cornish bantams??? My husband bid on them but they went up so high so fast that he bowed out.​

 

[Sooner]

That boy is BIG!

 

[mjgigax]

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Yes, it is a challenge. can you get someone to hold it for you? I can't imagine how tiny his/her legs are.

 

[Ksane]

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It's only got some mixed in it, not a lot

 

[mjgigax]

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A few seconds is right. The squirmy little thing doesn't like being on its back. I'll try the pipe cleaners, though they may be too big around. Someone mentioned using a dime, too, but both feet could fit on a dime.This little chick is super tiny as compared to a LF chick. I'll see if I can come up with some other ideas, too.


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No, I haven't tried that yet. Sounds like it's worth trying.

Thank you for the suggestions. The poor little chick holds its wings out to its sides trying to balance but can't stay upright very long. It chirps constantly. I'm concerned that it's expending a lot of energy trying to stand rather than using that energy to grow and get stronger. We'll see how it goes, but honestly, it doesn't look very hopeful.

How about cutting a piece of poster board and taping the little foot across it.
When I had to "help" any chicks, I was amazed at how quicly the chicks improved; with in a week even the worst of them were completely corrected

 

[Ksane]

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Good lord he's a baby giant. He's only how old? A year? lol