South Carolina

[dixiebeast]

Here is my Russian Orloff Roo and one of his ladies...They are in the ugly preteen age!!

 

[Cpntherfan]

how much duramycin-10 should i mix to a gallon of water? for a smaller rooster?

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Awww...I hate that for you! I always wanted a peacock just to watch wander around! I know a lady that knows a lady that sells peacock hatching eggs for $5. If I got one I think I would rather buy a live bird...course it would be fun to watch hatch and grow too...I haven't made up my mind. I have also been toying with the idea of a turkey too after seeing beautiful ones posted here...so sad for your peacock and you...

Thanks Pasty, I just went out and checked on my lone peacock and he was just sitting there on the roost kind of lost so I put a guinea hen in with him. Peacocks are beautiful but if I can not hatch one under a hen or another peafowl I think I will forgo having them it this is the case. They are so hard to hatch in an incubator and then you get them somewhat raised and this happens. He was about 8 or 9 month old. I can't really remember right now when I hatched them.

I keep trying to catch up on the thread and every time I get on here some thing happens to take me away.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Here is my Russian Orloff Roo and one of his ladies...They are in the ugly preteen age!!

They are very nice!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

I'm so sorry! There were two male peacocks at the show yesterday for sale and I was so tempted. They really are beautiful. I bet a guinea would be good company. At least it would talk a lot!

How funny, I just put one in and actually I think put it in my last post. Great minds think alike!

 

[gvilledh]

Whew! I'm tired! The show was fun but it was 5 hours each way. Colin got to see his white crested black polish. There were only two large ones being shown and one was a boy who was posing for pictures. They are hilarious looking birds. He really wanted to buy some yesterday but the only ones for sale for bantams and we've already ordered some standard size chicks. It's fun to see him so excited. He just came in and got my Standard of Perfection and he's studying it. I did pick up 11 silkies from Bobbi Porto that I had ordered a month ago but other than that, I can home empty handed.

It was really cool to see all the birds and learn about judging. I had never seen anyone's birds but mine so it was great to see the Marans and Ameraucanas and of course the Silkies! I should have shown my Ameraucanas. There were only 5. I was really surprised. And only one lavender and mine are much nicer. Got to meet a lot of the people on here which is always fun! I missed Heidi though. I had random people coming up to me and saying "Aren't you Susanne, the new SC silkie rep?" That was funny. And when I went up to a lady selling silkies and introduced myself to which she replied, "I know. I've been to your farm. That's where I got my silkies." Oops!

Apparently I gave her a good start because she had some nice ones!

Sorry to hear about all the dead birds. I went out this morning to check on my new little silkies and two were out in the rain, just sitting there soaked and shivering. I stuck them in with the babies. I need to go check.

My new coops are for Colin's polish, my cream legbars who will need space soon, the turkeys I've ordered, my gray silkies and my columbian silkies. And... something else. Can't think of it. I'm still working on getting the Jubilee's but since we're building the house, Cole thinks I need to wait.

Which maybe I should do because I have picked out some expensive lighting from Restoration Hardware for the house and I really need to talk him into those too!

I think it is pretty neat that others realized you were the SC Silkie Rep. Also great that you saw some of your own silkies (and liked how they looked).
I guess you might should get the Restoration Hardware lights for the house now, since it will be there soon, and once it is installed, you can start trying for the Jubilee Orps. You can't beat Restoration Hardware for lighting... or anything else.
Stay warm today. If it is going to be this cold and wet, it should at least be snowing!

 

[OurSweetLabs]

I got curious about [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]the Jubilee Orps and almost choked on my water at the price, the sure are pretty.[/FONT]

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

Puffy is beautiful!!! Love the color.

Susanne, I've felt your pain re lighting fixtures. I remember having to buy a few of them myself. Meaning, if I wanted the expensive ones, it was coming out of my pocket.
But I was in love and this is how I felt about them.....

 

[Joycats]

This is Puffy,the pigeon Jesse had to have

And this is why we call him PUFFY!

Ohhhh- beautiful! I have white fantails. I can't see, does yours have feathered feet and legs?

 

[Cpntherfan]

This is Puffy,the pigeon Jesse had to have

And this is why we call him PUFFY!

wow i never saw a pretty pigeon before, how much are those?