Sumatra Thread!

[dsfrango]

Cloverleaf Farm: Pictures! if they're old enough to start crowing, you should be able to tell them apart physically. I've got 3 boys and 3 girls right now, and the boys are notably bigger and have thicker legs. They're also much friendlier, all the boys will jump on my shoulders. Girls run screaming. You should also be seeing some glittery boy feathers in the wing-pits, on the shoulders, etc.

Troyer: They all look like very nice dusky blues to me. Blues can range from an actual leaden bluish color to a sort of muddy tan. I agree though, the top ones look kind of chocolate-y. Do you know if you have chocolate genes in your flock? (They can also appear spontaneously sometimes.) Beautiful lacing on those, I love it!

dsfrango: That one does look like a girl. The girls seem to have more white feathers on the face sometimes, I'm noticing...

chickletteSarge: Interesting, from what I've heard it's usually the other way around-- good for you if the boy already has a black face, it means he'll keep it! If the girl's face is pink, it might face to a light purplish color, or maybe gypsy, but probably not necessarily solid black. Oh, and they love to fight. My alpha hens fight with the roosters, even. And win.

Hey, Henferno, I think you were right about my little Sumatra being a hen Well its ok, I guess I have enough roosters for now. I just got rid of 6 so I have 1 or 2 from each breed. Total of 9(6 are young) roosters mixed with all the 18 hens

 

[mcrooke45]

is that a Barnavelder?

No it is a small dark cornish pullet. I have her in the pen to get use to my dark cornish bantam rooster. I coyote got my LF cornish cockerel while I was in hospital.
She is much smaller than the rest of my pullets so I am going to breed the bantam rooster to her because I don't have any bantam cornish hens right now. I am going to put the sumatras in a new pen next week as soon as I can get the divider done. I had 3 pairs of bantam sumatras But a coon also got one of my pullets and pulled her through the wire and killed her. I had to put up extra wire around the bottem of my pens so they could not pull anymore through the wire.
Mark

 

[dvang3]

Oh neat
Sumatra thread

 

[jeremy]

My Sumatras were in the trees today!

Our oldest Dun cockerel, he's getting big now.


Some Dun and Platinum pullets, they were pretty high up in the branches!



Also, I have a pair of Platinum birds available for sale, https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/690849/platinum-sumatra-pair-for-sale.

 

[G-Dekeyser]

Ok, so i have a khaki roo on two black hens, and it appears to me that the chicks are all somewhere in between blue and black, would i be correct in saying this??

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

We are still steadily culling out roosters based on huge nasty combs and other things we don't like (we had a feather eater last week) and I believe we are down to 14 cockerels. For pullets, we have 4 blacks and 12 duns so far. As far as bantams go, we only have a pair left, they didn't seem to be as vigorous as normal. We also have a couple broody raised birds running around and the batch of chicks we hatched out for shipping. I noticed we have a pullet out there with mottling on her back, I am thinking it is a throwback to the game ancestry that brought the dun in, weird but kinda pretty.

 

[zach N houdan]

i still have at least 2-4 pairs of bantam black sumatras, a pair of blue LF and some pairs of black LF!!!!

 

[jeremy]

One of my Dun pullets.


My entire flock, 2 Platinum pullets, 3 Dun pullets and 1 Dun cockerel preening. Ignore the annoying Blue Olive Egger in the front...

My Dun cockerel, the lighting in this picture is off and makes him look much darker than he really is.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

nevermind.

 

[troyer]

Two bottom pictures are full sisters. Blue Sumatra pullets. Pictures #1 and #2 are the same pullet.