They could turn around but I'm not convinced. I think it may still be a bit early for neville. He still learning! If not I'll try again in a few months.
I sat in the garden in the best place with the blue sky for ages to get that! My arm ached after a while but I love it! The weather is so good over here at the moment. I don't think it will last though.Go Boomer!Great avatar!
In general circumstances the chickens can easily peck a sitting pigeon to death.
WV points out the importance of the flock dynamics.
At one time,, I housed my 2 bantams and a blind EE together with my pigeon flock for the duration of winter. Rest of the chicken flock was in same loft area, but separated by wire screen. The regular chickens would have pecked to death my blind EE.
My pigeons, 2 Banties and Blind EE had no issues living together.
The rest of chicken flock had no access to do any harm.
Here are 2 pix from a long time ago. When I had my first pigeon, I kept my Serama with him for company. They stayed together in perfect harmony. Serama was a hen.
When I got more pigeons,,, Serama went back with the rest of my chickens.
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Speckle, my broody came off her eggs earlier, so I jumped in with a torch to have a quick candle. She been on them for 8 days now. Well my 2 Maran eggs don't look like they are fertile.1 of the araucana eggs looks a bit iffy
but the last 3 araucana eggs are definately fertile!
But on a plus there is now 2 eggs in with Boomer and Beau!
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It really shows how they USE those feathers to steer and brake. The weather here is pretty awful, about 0°C and raining. I put the feeder inside the loft for the first time in ages. Fwi - I pulled the 4 eggs from my pair of hens last night and two of them had slight smudges of blood. I was a little sad bc I think dad is my ash red bar/split for blue cock and 50% of the babies should be ash red I think? Does that sound right @WVduckchick @Pyxis ?
OMG I have weather envy, big time!
That's alot of eggs! Hopefully you should get about half hens!How seeet! Pretty serama. I could see pigeons living with some seramas or OEGBs, possibly even silkies. (Maybe some pigeon smarts would rub off on the silkies! Lmao!)
I set 51 chicken eggs in my cabinet last Saturday so I’m a day behind you. I checked some of the Marans eggs and they are just so tough to see in, I won’t pull them until probably next week when it should be more obvious.
Go Boomer and Beau!
You'll get some more I'm sure. Its still early in the year yet!It really shows how they USE those feathers to steer and brake. The weather here is pretty awful, about 0°C and raining. I put the feeder inside the loft for the first time in ages. Fwi - I pulled the 4 eggs from my pair of hens last night and two of them had slight smudges of blood. I was a little sad bc I think dad is my ash red bar/split for blue cock and 50% of the babies should be ash red I think? Does that sound right @WVduckchick @Pyxis ?
OMG I have weather envy, big time!
It really shows how they USE those feathers to steer and brake. The weather here is pretty awful, about 0°C and raining. I put the feeder inside the loft for the first time in ages. Fwi - I pulled the 4 eggs from my pair of hens last night and two of them had slight smudges of blood. I was a little sad bc I think dad is my ash red bar/split for blue cock and 50% of the babies should be ash red I think? Does that sound right @WVduckchick @Pyxis ?
OMG I have weather envy, big time!
The cock is ash red split for blue( so he looks 'silver') and the moms are blue. My thoughts are- the hens get their color from dad only so half blue, half ash red. The cocks get a blue from mom and either ash red or blue from dad so again half red and half blue. The reds would be split for blue and the blues - homozygous.I haven’t had enough coffee.
Is the mother blue bar? Ash red is dominant, so I “think” the female offspring should all be ash red. Male offspring could be blue, or ash red carrying blue.
That's what I'm afraid of!!
I so wish I had room to hatch more.
I love that avatar pic! Its really awesome!
Im familiar with franklin.. its about 2 hours from me, give or take. Nice to meet another Tennessean so close by..
So beautiful WV!Somebody said I hadn’t posted updated pics of mine, so I just did a photo shoot.
Trip on her eggs
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Duff
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Skye
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Bonnie
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Clyde
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Breezy
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Bonnie again
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Rocky
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Bugsy on top, Rocky on bottom
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Bugsy again
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So sweet!In general circumstances the chickens can easily peck a sitting pigeon to death.
WV points out the importance of the flock dynamics.
At one time,, I housed my 2 bantams and a blind EE together with my pigeon flock for the duration of winter. Rest of the chicken flock was in same loft area, but separated by wire screen. The regular chickens would have pecked to death my blind EE.
My pigeons, 2 Banties and Blind EE had no issues living together.
The rest of chicken flock had no access to do any harm.
Here are 2 pix from a long time ago. When I had my first pigeon, I kept my Serama with him for company. They stayed together in perfect harmony. Serama was a hen.
When I got more pigeons,,, Serama went back with the rest of my chickens.
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Ugh.. sorry bout the ones not doin so good..Speckle, my broody came off her eggs earlier, so I jumped in with a torch to have a quick candle. She been on them for 8 days now. Well my 2 Maran eggs don't look like they are fertile.
But on a plus there is now 2 eggs in with Boomer and Beau!
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Oh I LOVE it!
