Sumatra Thread!

[championsumatra]

yes I do agree

 

[zach N houdan]

My sumatras are very calm and show every time they go in a show cage. I have seen judges have harder times handling Plymouth Rick, Jersey Giants,and Austrolops when I was clerking then the Sumatra

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

  well said. The only thing I would add is "Normal" for Sumatra's is acting Pheasant like and slightly feral. Read the literature from the mid to late 1800's. That is "normal" for Sumatra's. My goal is to keep my birds more how they originally were when they were "discovered". Not turn them into something else. 

That is my thought. I enjoy their wildness. We have faverolles and marans for calm chickens. Not to turn this thread thqt way, but having a calm sumatra is like having a pit game that is great with any other rooster, justnot right. We do have a hen that is special, she hates all the other chickens amd flies onto our shoulders when we feed. Other than that, the rest of the flock is awesome as far as attitude and temperment

 

[chickletteSarge]

a heat lamp went out in my brooder lastnight... my trio of sumatras from stony's eggs is now a solo....

stony i may be sendin you another order here in a month or 2...
a bit on the depressed side now....

 

[trailchick]

So sorry Sarge, I know that is tough....

Champ, when are your eggs due to hatch?

 

[ramirezframing]

sorry to hear of your loss chicklette, do you have another chick about its size to put with it so it doesn't get lonely?

 

[chickletteSarge]

sorry to hear of your loss chicklette, do you have another chick about its size to put with it so it doesn't get lonely?

yea i got a bunch of month olds... not to mention a bunch due to hatch next weekend! just a bummer that my 1st batch of sumatras is almost all gone!!! i just hope its a cockrel so i can breed it with my black hen!

 

[stonykill]

a heat lamp went out in my brooder lastnight... my trio of sumatras from stony's eggs is now a solo....

stony i may be sendin you another order here in a month or 2...
a bit on the depressed side now....

sarge that really really sucks. Let me know whenever you are ready I'll hook you up. Sorry to hear that. When I did hatch and brood myown birds I used a big brooder and a heat lamp at each end. Just in case something like that happened. Something to think about.

 

[chickletteSarge]

sarge that really really sucks. Let me know whenever you are ready I'll hook you up. Sorry to hear that. When I did hatch and brood myown birds I used a big brooder and a heat lamp at each end. Just in case something like that happened. Something to think about.

yea i did have 2 in there... not sure what happened last night... DW and the DDs stayed clear when i yelld out that my babies were dead!... it was like oh crap were in for it now!!!
ill let ya know when ill be sendin u a request...

 

[dsfrango]

Ok so i have a question about the standard, It says multiple spurs are standard...is there a specific number or is it just more the better? My guy is about 1-1.5 yrs old and has 3-4 forming and I'm waiting ever so patiently for them to get even more and bigger!