Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[fisherlady]

We have a new baby! Could be silkie x BCM or pure silkie since either would give blue babies but we'll see as she feathers in. She definitely has the silkie vaulted skull so she should have a nice crest

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What a cutie! Congrats to you and the new mama!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Reposting this in case anyone has any help to offer....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/medical-professionals-curette-sizes-for-bumblefoot.1203580/

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

@dheltzel Just wanted to show you how large and beautiful my Bielefelder Roo is. He is just stunning in person, but this is the best pic I could get of him to show his size. What a stud!

 

[FluffyButt789]

@dheltzel Just wanted to show you how large and beautiful my Bielefelder Roo is. He is just stunning in person, but this is the best pic I could get of him to show his size. What a stud!



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Beautiful but holy cow, those poor girls must get flattened like pancakes! We have just 1 roo now and he is tiny, the same size as the girls.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Beautiful but holy cow, those poor girls must get flattened like pancakes! We have just 1 roo now and he is tiny, the same size as the girls.

Haha! Yes, some of the girls would, but thankfully, he has taken the Bielefelder girls as his harem, and they are large as well. Although, one of them is probably his mother, but we won't tell him that!

My main Roo takes care of the other smaller girls.

 

[Northern Appalachian]

What about the vent are you seeing that makes you think this?

The only one currently laying has a bump like an egg coming down the pipe if you feel her lower area.

 

[tlynn289]

How does everyone winterize their coop and run? I really want to be able to still let them have access to the run during winter months. I was thinking 6 mil greenhouse plastic? But what about ventilation?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

How does everyone winterize their coop and run? I really want to be able to still let them have access to the run during winter months. I was thinking 6 mil greenhouse plastic? But what about ventilation?

I plastic my run for them but I leave the eves open. If you don't have eves, you can leave a gap near the top four the air to flow through.

 

[dheltzel]

Beautiful but holy cow, those poor girls must get flattened like pancakes! We have just 1 roo now and he is tiny, the same size as the girls.

My experience with Biels is that despite the size, the roos are the gentlist of all breeds. They remind me of a fine southern gentleman that has nothing to prove. No one messed with him and he never felt the need to put the "beat down" on anyone. I often had 2 of them in a small pen with 4 to 6 hens, and never saw them fight. They would return the challenge from the neighbor roo, but it was a stare down that eventually un-nerved the other guy.

 

[Lelanae]

My experience with Biels is that despite the size, the roos are the gentlist of all breeds. They remind me of a fine southern gentleman that has nothing to prove. No one messed with him and he never felt the need to put the "beat down" on anyone. I often had 2 of them in a small pen with 4 to 6 hens, and never saw them fight. They would return the challenge from the neighbor roo, but it was a stare down that eventually un-nerved the other guy.

He certainly is gorgeous! I wish there was a roo that didn't crow! Are the hens as sweet too!