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[poultryand bees]

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Awwwww cute fluffy babies. I suspect that some are your white cornish, but what variety are those with chipmunk stripes?

Those would be White Laced Red Cornish.

AL

Interesting. I wonder why so many varieties of chickens start out with stripes down their backs? EE, brown leghorns and Saipan Jungle fowl are 3 other varieties that come to mind

 

[donnie]

woo hoo , i found it ...


Guess we get to break in the new thread with the new year , and poops lol

 

[poultryand bees]

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I also like that we had an even number of "pages" on the retired thread (when you have your display set at 75 posts per page)

 

[al6517]

You know Marybeth looking back on that old thread was like seeing your child graduate college, losing an old friend and shaking the hand of another in hopes of another long and arduois Journey.

AL

 

[poultryand bees]

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We certainly laughed a lot and cried some too. We helped each other through sickness, storms, teenagers (wait - are teenagers and storms the same thing?), shared recipes for food and chicken illness cures, and tried to identify ways to prevent predators, hatching woes, and build a better coop, water warmer, chicken tractor and incubator. Lots of memories.

Of course, walking around my bird pens/cages today as I got things in order for colder weather, I realized how much I have learned on my own homestead the past few years regarding fowl and how much I have appreciated the input of folks on BYC. (I am going to take Lynn's advice and wire a tuna can behind the trap mechanism on my live traps - was one suggestion I recalled today)

 

[poultryand bees]

Good night Okies. It has been fun visiting this evening, but time for me to get some sleep.

 

[al6517]

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Those would be White Laced Red Cornish.

AL

Interesting. I wonder why so many varieties of chickens start out with stripes down their backs? EE, brown leghorns and Saipan Jungle fowl are 3 other varieties that come to mind

What I like is when I can look in that window and see as they come out and dry, then I begin to ID them. These WLR's chicks Are a briliant silver white so the bold feather lacing will be promanant and good bright defined lacing on the breast. Not a blurry rush of red and stained white, like you'll find in the jubilee variety. It is still a little early for me to inspect to see if I have some pearl eye's in this bunch but my guess yeah, Plenty. As they go in the brooder tomorrow they will be vent sexed and tagged as such.

The Brother

AL

 

[al6517]

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Night Dear.

 

[Greybear23]

Good Morning Okies!!! Glad to seee everyone in our new home, come on in and make yourself at home!!! Gotta go to work, be back this evening!!! Lynn

 

[babyrnlc]

Hi, from the new okie!

I am in Tulsa and just got our chickens last Wednessday. We have eggs waiting to hatch, but when the coop got finished, we got impatient for eggs, so we were given two young hens. I have been told the first one is a EE (or olive egger) and the other is cornish or cornish x. The first day we got 1 egg from the two girls, the next 3 days we got 2, one day we got 1 and then two yesterday again.

We get light brown and olive green.

Here are the girls: