Oregon

[Citron_d'uccle]

I miss CO so much. I grew up near Shaniko, ( I know SMALL TOWN, right?). We lived a completely self sufficient lifestyle, although we never really thought of it as such. We raised Red/white face and Black/white face Angus and Holsteins for beef, chickens for eggs and meat, sheep for meat and wool, turkeys and geese for meat, and we also hunted elk and deer for venison. We would hunt geese, ducks, pheasant, quail, chukar, and grouse. We fished mountain streams and rivers for trout, steelhead and salmon. I MISS THOSE DAYS, LOL!!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Citron_d'uccle :

I miss CO so much. I grew up near Shaniko, ( I know SMALL TOWN, right?). We lived a completely self sufficient lifestyle, although we never really thought of it as such. We raised Red/white face and Black/white face Angus and Holsteins for beef, chickens for eggs and meat, sheep for meat and wool, turkeys and geese for meat, and we also hunted elk and deer for venison. We would hunt geese, ducks, pheasant, quail, chukar, and grouse. We fished mountain streams and rivers for trout, steelhead and salmon. I MISS THOSE DAYS, LOL!!!

That would be awesome!

 

[PtldChick]

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yes yes yes

I would love to add a faverolle pullet to my little bantam flock!

I had a hatchery LF and gave her away to a friend because her feathering was coming in all mixed with grey and black. Not a cockeral, just really bad coloring. She was my sweetest chick at the time. My friend's chcikens had all been killed because her DH left the gate open by accident and one of the whippets got in.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Ok, here's some bantams....(good timing, I need a break from the PNPA newsletter)....

 

[Chicken Rustler]

CLF in case nobody has told ya YOU ARE A BRAT showing all those pics. I am SOOOO coming down with a terrible case of hatchitus and would love to see my little broody silkie with a batch of little uns.!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Are you taking this bird to Stevenson?? If so I will be looking for it. In fact you could mark it RUSTLED !!!

I WILL be bringing him home.

 

[PtldChick]

That picture of the Salmon with the chick is too precious!

What color is the pullet/hen in the bottom picture that looks black and salmon? I really like that coloration!

 

[DancingHen]

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I agree...that girl in the bottom row is beautiful!

They are all lovely actually.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I agree...that girl in the bottom row is beautiful!

They are all lovely actually.

Thank you very much. That odd colored pullet is actually dark blue and salmon, it's just hard to see her coloring in that pic. She is the result of a salmon dad and a mottled mom (didn't know the breeder had all their colors running together before I bought eggs)

We love that little girl, so she has a pet home with us, but I don't know what on earth I'm going to do with her...might breed her with a solid blue boy to see if I can isolate that mottled gene that she should be carrying.....

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Are you taking this bird to Stevenson?? If so I will be looking for it. In fact you could mark it RUSTLED !!!

I WILL be bringing him home.

LOL He's really something isn't he? No, he isn't coming to Stevenson, BUT I will be looking for a home for him probably come spring time.....

Here's the other cool thing (albeit sometimes frustrating thing) about salmon males...they change SO much from hatch to fully mature, here is the progression of that particular bird.....

Roughly 8 weeks old:

About 4-5 months old:

About 9 months old:

He is precisely why I tell people not to make final judgements on their roos coloring until at LEAST 8 months if they can possibly help it.

The unfortunate thing about this boy is that he's quite a bit smaller than the alpha roo in his coop, I'd say at least 3 pounds smaller...