South Carolina

[huckleberryfarm]

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My Wheaten Marans hens all have floppy combs. We call them Flopsy, Mopsy, Topsy, Turvy and Tilly. But my roo has a straight comb. I love their floppy combs!

Glad your cat is okay. We don't need any more donkey killings on this thread!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

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I have a great black copper marans boy if you're interested. He's about 5 months old and is looking great! I have a blue roo in there already and then got 6 hens and 2 boys out of the black hatch. I only am going to keep one boy. Not sure I have a picture but he's very nice looking and non-aggressive. I can take a picture if anyone wants to see him. Not sure what you'd get mating to a Dominique but it'd be interesting!

 

[Lroach711]

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My Wheaten Marans hens all have floppy combs. We call them Flopsy, Mopsy, Topsy, Turvy and Tilly. But my roo has a straight comb. I love their floppy combs!

Glad your cat is okay. We don't need any more donkey killings on this thread!

That's funny that your hens have the floppy combs too

I think my guy is pretty cute even though he's awkward..although he looks SO different from the other roo I got out of that hatch. Hopefully he'll grow into himself eventually!

 

[Joycats]

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Joy,
it sounds like he may have mixed his birds somehow. Surely he has another breed and it really seems to me that somehow they have gotten together. As you say, you have been raising them for several years with nothing like this occurring.

You would think so but there is no way - I saw his birds and he only keeps white leghorns. He has my birds in one pen and another bloodline in a separate pen and not a black chicken anywhere on the place except this one little chick. His pens are completely enclosed, even the top. He keeps mostly pheasants and peafowl. I'm puzzled, especially by the brown eggs too.

 

[Larkspur88]

Maybe it's a phicken or cheasant...lol

 

[phoneman]

i have a blue ameruacana hen i have been trying to break up from being broody. so she broke me down. i told her if she was just going to set on her behind . she may as well make herself useful. so i put 10 eggs under her and told her i will check back in 21 days.

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

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That is crazy! I've got WHL and I've never had any color other than white hatch out. AND I've never had a color egg other than brown. But I think that is just a product of that game we call "the gene pool." Something will always find its way out..eventually. Do you have and pics of them or your birds? I'm not doubting you at all. I just like pics and it helps sometimes

So your leghorns lay BROWN eggs? Because everything I've read says they should lay large, white eggs (and mine do). I've been told there is a strain that lays brown eggs but haven't been able to find them. I might have to get some from you. If I'd known my own chicks would start laying brown eggs I would have kept them.

LOL NO!!!

I meant to say "I've never had a color egg other than white." Sorry, I had brown on the brain....

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

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[huckleberryfarm]

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Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do! Hope you get some chicks!

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

Award Winners from the swap August 6th

Jack's Ameraucana

ME

Lauren

Still waiting to get the other candid pictures from the 4H...stay tuned

For those that haven't seen the other pics yet; they can be found on page 547, post #5465