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[fairwindminishetland]

Beautiful sunset picture, and I LOVE the baby chick pics!!! Those little cochins are adorable!

I love cochins, and I've got 18 bantam eggs for hatching this week and 18 more for 2 more weeks! Can't wait...Yours look like black/blue/splash? 18 of mine are 10 different colors and 18 are project Mill Fluer!

 

[Kassaundra]

HEY HEY HEY! no need to be mean!

sounds like fun to me!

we have to be easily amused, we are married to women you know!

and on the strawberry thing, i only have experiance eating them. but my step dad planted a buch 1 year when i was 16, the people that live there now get berries every year.

Glad to see the correct "you" got it!

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

Spotted a turtle earlier big enough to cause some serious harm the ducks or geese it looked to be well over a foot from front to back of it's shell I got the .22 and hugged up to a big oak tree and waited, after the first shot the ducks took that as the "All Clear!" and spent the next hour and a half running, flying, diving and creating general havoc making a mockery of my efforts to hunt LOL Needless to say that wasn't going to work so I get to set up my traps again I wasn't sure if I was going to need to but looks like that's another project to do soon... I didn't get to harvest any turtles but I have collected a few ticks I sure hate those vampiristic little aliens, I think it's an invasion from outer space no way they are native to this planet...

I was at Atwoods yesterday and looking at all the chicks and ducks I almost considered it but convinced myself that I have an incubator and a bunch of eggs and it just wouldn't be right for me to take any home with me being it would be only a few weeks and I'd have all I wanted LOL

 

[mjgigax]

From what I've read it's real typical when they reach sexual maturity. I expect it any day now with some of mine. From what I keep reading the majority will settle down once their hormones calm down a bit. I would think putting him in with his own girl would be the thing to do. To protect the chicks.

Now my Cochins are my special babies lol! I have my 7 mo old dark gray boy but I don't have a black. I had a black pullet I got from Carl and lost her. I looove the blacks! With the green and purple shine on their feathers? Dang, they're pretty! If I didn't know better I'd say you were enabling......

He is beautiful. He is a blue. Good blues should have black heads and hackles. Good coloring on hens should be black or near black heads too.

 

[Ksane]

Elwood, get to hatching already!!
MJ, I honestly didn't know Blues had black heads. I never quite knew what color to call him because he was blue and black both.

 

[mjgigax]

Well, we have survived our initial NPIP testing..all birds are healthy!

Chickens weren't too bad, only had one bantam hen get away and after several minutes she was reunited, our single tom turkey was interesting...catching and putting him on his back on the ground to do the test, he was way too big to hold, lol. Peafowl survived all the handling, not one of the train feathers got broke and only one hen lost a couple flight feathers...note to self: Self, next time holding the cocks wear gloves! Those dudes have got some super sharp spurs!...The quail were the most unique, the coturnix didn't mind the handling so much...but the new world quail are NOT a touchy-feely bird...but glad it's all done...until next year, or additions.


Thanks again to Maribeth! We do appreciate your mentorship through this process...and yes, I did sign up for the class in April

For fun, here are pictures of the peafowl from last week to get an idea of what we had to deal with:

Sigh, so beautiful!

 

[mjgigax]

This is the new bantam chick we got at Atwoods yesterday. She is a pretty silvery blue. Anybody have an idea what breed she is.

What color are her/his legs and do they have feathers.
I bought a Cochin bantam yesterday to keep my one Mille Fleur Cochin chick company in the brooder. I think the Atwood's chick is a splash. It was $3.19. Is that higher than last year's prices? I didn't buy any last year.

King's feed in Newalla will have chicks Tuesday or Wednesday. They are getting in Cinammon Queens (red sexlinks), New Hampshires and Astralorps - from Cackle Hatchery and NOT straight run.

 

[mjgigax]

Elwood, get to hatching already!!
MJ, I honestly didn't know Blues had black heads. I never quite knew what color to call him because he was blue and black both.

Acording to the APA standard, the correct color for Blues is to have a darker head.

 

[mjgigax]

What color are her/his legs and do they have feathers?
I bought a Cochin bantam yesterday to keep my one Mille Fleur Cochin chick company in the brooder. I think the Atwood's chick is a splash. It was $3.19. Is that higher than last year's prices? I didn't buy any last year.

King's feed in Newalla will have chicks Tuesday or Wednesday. They are getting in Cinammon Queens (red sexlinks), New Hampshires and Astralorps - from Cackle Hatchery and NOT straight run.

edited to add - sorry I jumped in before I saw Medford's post

 

[Kassaundra]

When you garden w/ chickens you never garden alone!