Sumatra Thread!

[TheCrazyClucker]

I should have been more clear,we are in the Flint Hills of Kansas where winter could-and will-go down to below zero and summers where it is possible for the heat to reach 106 degrees,which is the hottest I've ever encountered.

 

[Infnityhrt]

I should have been more clear,we are in the Flint Hills of Kansas where winter could-and will-go down to below zero and summers where it is possible for the heat to reach 106 degrees,which is the hottest I've ever encountered.

yeah, here we have gotten into the minus digits, since the males don't have large combs they have never gotten frostbit, if we get a stretch of below temps at night for more than a couple days I will put a heat lamp in the coop, not sure if they need it..but I feel like I need it LOL. I usually feed some scratch in the winter right before dusk so that they have some corn as heat also, but they do well even running out in the snow during the day. We don't worry about high humidity here, but will run in the upper 90's at times, They seem to be pretty hardy, never see them sick or anything either.

 

[4Hgirl]

I should have been more clear,we are in the Flint Hills of Kansas where winter could-and will-go down to below zero and summers where it is possible for the heat to reach 106 degrees,which is the hottest I've ever encountered.

My limited experience in FL says they are heat hardy down here with lots of humidity! Actually haven't found a chicken yet that isn't. But I avoid the overly feathered giant breeds. Just in case.

 

[championsumatra]

the only colors that you can show is the blue and black. you can show the other colors but they will not win champion.

 

[raph]

The new light Sussex hens and a excited Sumatra hen.

 

[championsumatra]

my sumatra chicks are getting very big and looking great! how about you guys how is it going with your young stock of sumatra's if you got some out? I will update some more photos of the young Sumatra's. my older sumatra's are starting to molt. which is good because they are such hard birds to get their feathers in on time for the show!

 

[PirateFarmer]

I finally got a response to my letter to Sandhill Preservation in January about the "Auburn Sumatras" he included in my chick order last year.
Here's what he had to say:

"Auburns came out of the Frizzles. I don't know what Klaus used to make the Frizzle Blacks. Can send a box of 25 for $30 post paid if you want."

That's it. I don't anything about the Frizzles or even who "Klaus" is, so if anyone here does, I'd like more info - I'd like to know what I should do to get the dark legs - these are yellowish in color. The 3 hens I've got all went broody & I shoved various eggs under them, just to gain experience on raising my own chicks from them...excellent mothers & you couldn't get them off the nests before they hatched with a rope & a donkey pulling on them, until the last 3 or 4 days - then it was a quick trip to eat/drink/poop and back at it. The 2 roosters are absolutely gorgeous. I'm hoping to learn enough to try breeding these just to each other next year.

 

[FlCountryGirl]

My month and a half old blues. (Three out of the five)

 

[ramirezframing]

I finally got a response to my letter to Sandhill Preservation in January about the "Auburn Sumatras" he included in my chick order last year.
Here's what he had to say:

"Auburns came out of the Frizzles. I don't know what Klaus used to make the Frizzle Blacks. Can send a box of 25 for $30 post paid if you want."

That's it. I don't anything about the Frizzles or even who "Klaus" is, so if anyone here does, I'd like more info - I'd like to know what I should do to get the dark legs - these are yellowish in color. The 3 hens I've got all went broody & I shoved various eggs under them, just to gain experience on raising my own chicks from them...excellent mothers & you couldn't get them off the nests before they hatched with a rope & a donkey pulling on them, until the last 3 or 4 days - then it was a quick trip to eat/drink/poop and back at it. The 2 roosters are absolutely gorgeous. I'm hoping to learn enough to try breeding these just to each other next year.

you have pictures of yours?

 

[championsumatra]

good news My hen hatched 3 sumatra eggs out of 4. will get pics of then ones I come back from New Orleans.