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[MacGuyver]

Those buff cochins bantams are sure cute. I'd take them if I wasn't in limbo at the moment with income sources. If you still have them in a week or so and our situation has stabilized, I'd take them then. I just can't add not knowing what's going to happen.

Understood. Let me know when you can.

 

[BirdWalkFarm]

My dogs are usually lazy so I don't notice much difference.

Lol ! Mine are just pretending to lay there and sleep . They don't miss a thing .

 

[erinszoo]

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I will PM you and let you know. Thanks.

 

[erinszoo]

Tonight's dessert. Fresh peach sorbet from the peaches that were bruised in transit. The birds were thrilled with the peels.

 

[mjgigax]

I hatched out some bantam cochin eggs "just to see what would happen". My bad. I don't want more cochins at the moment. I have these two pure bred buff Cochin bantams. They were hatched on Friday, June 15 and at an unseemly early hour in the morning on Saturday, June 16.




I'm guessing I have a cockerel and a pullet. What do you guys think?




I'm guessing cockerel on this one because of the redder wings and the tail tufts, and it seems there's slightly more going on with the comb (Edit: and wattles). Also, the chick just acts "cockier".



I'm guessing pullet on this one. Comb is smaller, no tail feathers (though you can't see it here) to speak of, and white in the wings.



Cockerel



Pullet



Pullet



Cockerel.

What do you guys think? Also, and most importantly, does anyone want them? They are two weeks old. They're out of really nice birds, I think.



Papa



Mama

Edit: I am a terrible person. I just thought "Well, if no one wants them, I could maybe show them at Shawnee." Help. Someone save me.
Edit again: These are out of the trio I bought from mjgigax.

Usually two weeks is kind of early to tell the sex of Cochins but I think you are right - 1 cockerel and 1 pullet
I hatched 3 chicks from my LF Buff pair and they all hve very small combs - they are all the same any ways so all pullets or all cockerels and I'm thinking pullets. I don't have much experience with raising LF so I am waiting to see. I was hoping to have a roo to give Okracefan amd to keep one pullet for myself. It is rare that anyone hatches all pullets and I'm disapointed?!

 

[okracefan]

anybody know were I might find some LF Brahmas?

 

[erinszoo]

erinszoo, where are you located? i live north of Stillwater and I used to live in Carney, there used to be a huge Sand Plum thicket on the south side of Sweethome road off 177 south of Carney about 3-4 miles north of 66!!! i sure love Sand Plum Jelly!!!! Lynn

Greybear23 I live in Blackwell but my parents are in Stillwater (I grew up there) and my son will be there in the fall for school so we're down there all the time. I know the area you're talking about. We didn't get to do much picking today due to the tire fiasco. The ones we did pick were perfectly ripe though and no bugs or worm holes at all. We picked out at the Salt Plains a couple of weeks ago and ended up with 25 lbs of sand plums. We made 9 pints of jelly and 14 pints of jam. We have a huge thicket at my grandmother's old house but it's way down on the red river and we just don't have the funds to travel down there this year. If I had a source to sell to it might make the gas money worth it but I mainly give to family and friends and eat it ourselves. There's nothing better than sand plum jelly on a warm buttered biscuit.

 

[Bo Garrett]

They make a laughing sound when they sneeze, could she be sneezing?

That is the sound of a happy hen singing and probably preparing to start laying. This is a good thing. You'll probably notice her comb and wattles are getting larger and more intense red and that her abdomen is getting large and softer and the space between her pubic bones is expanding. I do love the sound of hens singing their hearts out.

 

[Ksane]

MJ, My Silver & Gold Laced LF Cochins are 7-8 wks old now (staggered hatch) and just this week 2 of them sprouted red combs and wattles. They were the ones I've thought since hatch were boys. Bo Garrett said something recently that I believe is true. At least it has been so far the past 3-4 hatches. He said that boys will have big round stomachs when they're born, noticeably bigger than girls. Also with LF Cochins the boys feather in super slow. I've got an 8 wk old that is just now barely starting to get his secondary wing feathers. Both the 2 boys were born with no secondary wing feathers at all, the other were all born with them and grew them all really fast. Another reason I thought these 2 were the boys. The littlest one I've never been sure on because it's always been so little, but if I could luck out with only 2 boys out of the 6? I'd be thrilled.
OKRaceFan, Light Brahmas are relatively easy to find but I had a heck of a time finding Dark Brahmas. Don't you or your brother have an incubator? Your best bet would be to buy some eggs on Ebay, that's where a lot of the good Brahma breeders sell their eggs at. I still can't quit wanting the Gold Laced Brahmas. My 4 Dark girls are the sweetest things, but I had to end up getting eggs, couldn't find any anywhere else. Didn't Jim get some Darks from Newcastle awhile back?

 

[Ksane]

Oh how strange, Bo! I just mentioned your named and posted at the same time you were posting. What a coincidence.