Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TeaChick]

purchased a pair of peafowl yesterday, I now have seven and will try and hatch in two or three years.

so cold this morning that I only had one sip of coffee before I lit the fire. carried the trash to the road while my coffee was "dripping". Sure is nice to have trash service, the last house was too far out to have anyone willing to pick it up. Beautiful sunrise this morning, the art of a sunrise never ceases to amaze me.

Congrats on the peafowl!

Cold here too. Dh starts the heater and I make the coffee. Ah, teamwork. lol
I don't get too see the sunrise much (since marrying a night owl). I used the chickens as my excuse to get up that early until last winter; now the coyotes are the reason I don't let then out that early anymore. h

 

[TeaChick]

Good Morning All! Hope you're all making it through this crazy weather okay. Here in VA the temps are dropping from 30's this morning to 10 tonight with negative windchills. I've got to migrate!!! Lol

We've been talking about migrating for years, we just can't decide which way to go. Dh wants to go north and I want to go anywhere tropical.

Have to let you guys know my first cup of coffee in the morning for the past year has been learning all I can right here.  Right now taking a quick break and  just about  to finish cup number 3, and hopefully it will reach 20 degrees before I have to go out and do some errands.

Welcome!
TWENTY DEGREES? I can't fathom going it gets UP to 20* before going outside.
Whoever said we need a shivering emoticon was right!

Is there such thing as a clean legged frizzled breed? I know the cochins and polish can be frizzled but for some reason I just noticed a frizzled chick in my brooder. It has no crest or feathered legs. What other breeds can be frizzled? Or can all breeds be frizzled and not a few select ones?

If I understand correctly and if I've been accurately informed, and those are two big ifs, then the grizzled gene (being dominant) can be introduced to any breed.

 

[chickadoodles]

Ocap congrats on your peafowl!
Welcome Cindynkids and Grandee! Hi Areolyn.

My Bourbon Red turkey and one of my Buckeye hens just started laying this week and now after tonight they will likely quit till spring.

But the eggs are in the bator! YEAH!

 

[ocap]

Congrats on the peafowl!

Ocap congrats on your peafowl!

thanks

it has been interesting watching another kind of bird establish a pecking order

 

[Areolyn]

Frizzled is a dominant trait, which usually means that any bird that inherits it will show the trait. However, there apparently is at least one gene that can repress the expression of the frizzling, so a bird might have only very slightly recurved feathers and still have the frizzle gene. While it is (remotely) possible that the mutation that causes frizzling randomly and spontaneously occurred again in some breed not known for having frizzled feathers, the odds are that there is a frizzled Cochin or Polish somewhere back in the murky depths of that bird's ancestry. Some people are breeding frizzled Seramas, and I have seen frizzled Silkies, but I'd be willing to bet that the source of curly feathers in both of those breeds was a frizzled Cochin way, way back in the family tree.

:O I wish I could say there is not much of a curl going on, but the feathers and pretty curled and long on the wings. I think the hatchery probably had some frizzled cochins get in with some other breed, or vice versa.

 

[Amberjem]

we need pictures @ronott1

 

[ronott1]

we need pictures @ronott1

 

[Amberjem]

 

[ronott1]

Ok Jem! I just took some.

This is the Splash Australorp with lighting--a Zoolander Glamor shot!



Same chick with normal lighting. Check out the nice splash coloring coming in on the wing already:



These are TJ's, Likely Hyland 36 chicks:



They are already playing king of the Brooder Plate!

 

[Amberjem]

be soo kewl to see your lil splash all feathered out


the little guys are like bouncing popcorns now!
!

I cant wait to see how my blue feathers in!