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[B123]

It the female version of the stag (now a cock) below. I am pretty sure it is a result of part of what it takes to have redquill. I now the color variant exists outside what I have but it may be easy to cover up with things like wheaton, splash and dominant white.







He is a bird I posted some time ago. Best described as brown-breasted brown red. He is not pumpkin, light does make him look like it though.

I must have missed that one. It is an interesting pattern. He has very long hackle feathers but his sickle feathers look short to me based on the spurs. Is that typical of your line?

 

[JShubin]

@centrarchid and @flypen

The Pink legs on the toppy/muff cock could be related to the blue legs of the centra's pullets. I heard that the pink and blue are related genes. And I noticed my pink legged Whitehackle hen produced blue leg pullet when pairs with Blue Leg cock.


Found this on BYC...

Leg color -
Rooster Hen Pullet Cockerel
W G W W
W Y W W
W B W W
W W W W
B W B W <--- thats what I got this year (Shubin)
Y W W W
G W Y W

W=White G=Green Y=Yellow B=Blue

@Chris09

 

[B123]

Something smashed into one of my pens and bent it inward. My guess would be a deer, close to rutting about now. No way a hawk slammed into it without laying there dead. No evidence of a stag kicking it either. Strange things happening around these parts.

It's been raining all day. Disregard the mess.

Sometimes I don't think they look where they are going, just put their head down and go. At our old house, there were lots of deer and we had nice fence around the orchard and garden. Seems like they were always running into it.

 

[roosterhavoc]

yeah I would say some kind of herbivore or a bird of prey... A land predator would have been all over it, digging under or flipping over to get the food inside. 

The dent looks like a single point of contact and likely only one hit. 

you think deer would have ran off with piece of plastic?  I know my chickens eat Styrofoam, so it would surprise me.

Bud I can't figure out the missing plastic piece. I gave up thinking about it

 

[B123]

Anybody have black bears in their area. I heard they were getting closer to me and yesterday while at the sawmill down the road to pick up wood chips, they asked if I had seen the bear in the area. Fortunately, no, but do they tend to bother chickens? I am used to dealing with the small critters, but a bear is a whole other ball game.

 

[sdm111]

Anybody have black bears in their area.  I heard they were getting closer to me and yesterday while at the sawmill down the road to pick up wood chips, they asked if I had seen the bear in the area.  Fortunately, no, but do they tend to bother chickens?  I am used to dealing with the small critters, but a bear is a whole other ball game.

we have black bears but they are very reclusive.
http://ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/profile/speciesProfile?spcode=A08F

 

[flypen]

No Bear problems here

 

[JShubin]

Bears stick to mountain areas around me... But always on the news, swimming in pools during summer and eating trash before winter. Never seem to do any harm to anyone or anything.

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

Trail cam pics at RHs ,that would be a blast to see all the stuff that goes on between the chicken pens over at his place,slammed pens, broke waterers.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Bears stick to mountain areas around me... But always on the news, swimming in pools during summer and eating trash before winter. Never seem to do any harm to anyone or anything.

That's a roundabout way of saying they shouldn't be hunted huh. Lol