~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[froggy848]

Hello from Ireland!! This is new member froggy848.I love the pics you posted on BYC's espically your silver sebright.I'm a big fan of sebrights.I have both the silver and gold.At the moment I have a baby gold and a baby silver that are adorable.Here in Ireland it's difficult to get silver's and gold's.They vary also in price from 10euro to upto 20 or 30euro,sometimes more.Anyway the pictures are great,let me know if you have any tips on sebrights or just any general knowledge.I'm always will to learn more about my favourite birds.

froggy

 

[gryeyes]

Hello from Ireland!! This is new member froggy848.I love the pics you posted on BYC's espically your silver sebright.I'm a big fan of sebrights.I have both the silver and gold.At the moment I have a baby gold and a baby silver that are adorable.Here in Ireland it's difficult to get silver's and gold's.They vary also in price from 10euro to upto 20 or 30euro,sometimes more.Anyway the pictures are great,let me know if you have any tips on sebrights or just any general knowledge.I'm always will to learn more about my favourite birds.

froggy

Welcome to BYC! Ireland!!! Wow! So nice to have you here! I do know what you mean about Sebrights - I would pick up more of 'em but can only get chicks "straight run," which means *I* would have cockerels to re-home again. (And if I bought eggs.... well, I'm famous for hatching roosters, darn it.) That was painful because I loved Alex and George.... They crow impressively loud and often; I was lucky to find a good home for them.

But it would be wonderful to have a few more Silver and Golden Sebright hens. They're such sprightly and entertaining little chickens!

 

[froggy848]

The pic on my posts is my baby Murtdock,she was my first of many bantams and is my pride and joy,I raised her from two weeks old with no heaters or hen.It was difficult but worth it!! My mother asked my uncle for "ordinary backyard bantams" and he arrived with two gold sebrights I was stunned and had never seen them before other than in books now I had two.Murtdock is now just over a year old and her then partner Luna,pictured,has since died.She became paralyised and died soon after.Now it's just me,Murtdock and the other four sebrights I have.It's no shock in our house to find Murty in the house with us and my two bichon frise girls who have no problem with Murt join them in the sofa

 

[gryeyes]

Y'all are just gonna hafta put up with the next series of photos. There's no way I couldn't share 'em. (Click on any image you wish to see larger.)

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So, can you tell what I did today?

I also got these shots:

Buffy, my most senior hen, who hatched my very first GrandChick Samantha 2 years ago. She has successfully hatched four small broods, from one to four chicks. She was JUST broody, but when I removed the egg upon which she was sitting (it was never gonna hatch) and replaced it with two from another broody's nest, she decided she wasn't going to be broody any more. Today.



This is my sweet, broody Alice Sebright. She's been broody in the top of the rabbit hutch for more than a month.... apparently her eggs haven't been fertilized of late. I'll see if she'll take the two Buffy refused..... The third photo is just to display the lovely lacing in her feathers. She had a lot of preening to do.

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Carl and Miranda (Golden Lakenvelder) on a stroll together.


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Edna up on the only porch railing section not inside the screened portion. What string?

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This is Dylan. Jack, the more dominant of the two WCB Polish roos, <*shhhhhh!*> has been plucking feathers from Dylan's crest.

This is Edith again; s/he has the more nicely defined tail-feathers of the two turkey poults. Edna, however, is friendlier.



Speaking of Edna.....



Josie is the last of my four Trader Joe's white Leghorns, hatched on January 1, 2011. The other two Josies found good homes when I was offering hens with the bantam roosters I had to give up. TJ the rooster died a few months ago, up on the porch, apparently in some scuffle.

As sad as that was, at least he was one rooster I didn't have to try to re-home.



Here's Miranda again. By the way, she used to belong to SunnyDawn. Miranda (formerly named Daisy) a bit more than two years old. She's the hen I saved from drowning (in another long post).



Oh, and about the Olmstead Homestead sign, yes I did order it online. It was extremely reasonable - only $40.00. Right here on eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400081818666?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649



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[redhen]

When can i move in?

 

[Jferlisi]

Lovely update. =D

 

[dsqard]

Linda that brood of ducklings is so adorable! Looks like momma is doing a great job watching over them.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Too much cuteness!

 

[1muttsfan]

Awwwww duckies

 

[froggy848]

Sorry to hear about Tj,it's so hard when you loose one of your birds.We're all dreading the day when my first golden Murtdock dies or even my favourite pekin,Hugo.He's a buff and is gorgeous!!! My dad wasn't that intrested in the birds till I got Mr.Hugo and now he wanders round the garden with the hen's.When I say wander my dad's half retired and love's to watch the bird's as we all do.The ducks are a great succes in our house,Percy and Peg love their daily dose of lettuce and pea's.Love your pic's by the way,
Far away friend Froggy xxxx