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[Sooner]

Wayne do you have a canopy to bring to the event in June???

 

[mjgigax]

Well, I finally found the auction in Blanchard! My GPS hates that address. Here's my new baby keets.

Guess they found the food.

He, he, he! Tarin sure does have nice keets and now you do too. Please post pics as they grow so we can see all their different colors.

 

[poultryand bees]

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You are undoubtedly correct

 

[mjgigax]

Please let us know right before the auction. I'm not missing out on your birds this time.
Robin, the Silver Laced boy is adorable I ended up with a total of 4 Silver Laced and 2 Gold Laced. I'm eyeballing Bo's Mottleds and Buffs now

How old are your Silver Laced now?
(PSI have 3/4 g of Oxine if you want it).

I love my Buff roo from Bo. He is huge and has the longest crow, shows all my bantam boys how a crow should really sound. He is very sweet and protective of my Buff hen without being agressive toward me. he doesn't have a name yet, maybe Max?

 

[mjgigax]

I so agree, OK is an amazing state full of awesome diversity and cool natural areas. I always say I'm a yankee by birth, but an Okie by choice.

We weren't planning to stay after Joe retired but here we are, 8 years total so far (2 after retirement) - because of the beautiful nature and nice people. I still miss Michigan but sure do like it here.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

I have only hatched three brown red chicks this year and since they are still experimental they still throw sport colors like light brown of which I have one out of the three hatched this year. I have three mature males that vary in color intensity from too much to not enough. The best male I ever raised was in 2005, he had excellent top color and crisp breast lacing and I never got a chick out of him. Brown reds can be produced by breeding black males to recessive white females which will produce, willow legged whites, blacks that molt to white in the 2nd year (these have good yellow legs) and the brown reds. The first generation will not have good color intensity and the females will have black heads with hackle lacing and very little breast lacing but when bred together they'll produce males of good color. The females take a few more generations to get the color right. right now I have one old hen (7) from an original black x white mating and she is still laying but for how long I don't know. There is one other fellow on the east coast that raises true brown red cochins LF but I am not sure how many he has or if he even has them anymore.
I currently raise black, white, blue, partridge, brown red, mottled, buff and working on restoring the brown cochin.
I should have some young birds to bring to the Newcastle sale in about a month or so, no brown reds but some blacks, blues, mottleds, whites, buffs and partridge with some bantam black and birchen thrown in the mix.

Bo

they bo i was woundering what the quality is on your LF motteled cochin are ?? i would love to have some i even thought about using the LF MOTTELED UK ORPINTONS over my black to recreate some i know it would take at test F2 to get the color but the uk orps alread have the shape and underfluff and may acualy inprove them

anny way i would like to be able to get some LF motteled from you

 

[jcatblum]

Doddle how many birds did you keep? I am sure when you are able to get moved back this way you will quickly acquire any birds you may be missing.

We are heading to brunch & frontier city. The girls are pretty cranky after a night @ the auction so don't know how long we will stay. Hope everyone has a great mothers day!

 

[tgperg]

He, he, he!  Tarin sure does have nice keets and now you do too. Please post pics as they grow so we can see all their different colors.

Heh, you may regret saying that. No one has to twist my arm to get me to post pictures of birds!

 

[tgperg]

Doddle how many birds did you keep? I am sure when you are able to get moved back this way you will quickly acquire any birds you may be missing.
We are heading to brunch & frontier city. The girls are pretty cranky after a night @ the auction so don't know how long we will stay. Hope everyone has a great mothers day!

Oh, man. I should have waited and just met you at Frontier City to pick up my keets! I live half a mile from there!

 

[tgperg]

tgperg it was nice meeting you at the auction ,,,,Nice looking flock of bird's you have ...

It was nice meeting you too!