Sumatra Thread!

[4Hgirl]

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I do have animal sitters that i have been using for years and they take care of my 150 birds and all my other animals (goats, horses rabbits etc.) when I am on vacation but I still worry with the cold because none of them have the quantity of animals as I do lol. And thank you for te complement on the splash bantam I really like her and I can't wait to breed her in the spring

I totally understand. We went out of town this summer and I ended up with a near dead horse and a $6,000 vet bill when I got back! Everyone says they did everything to the T but if I was home I may have recognized the colic sooner and nipped it in the bud.

 

[4Hgirl]

He was worth the vet bill though. Riding bridle less and sharing the arena with the laying hens.

 

[ramirezframing]

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Glad your horse is ok. Does he feed the chickens?

 

[4Hgirl]

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Glad your horse is ok. Does he feed the chickens?

No the horses eat pelleted feed so no grain products in poops but the chickens love scratching around in it looking for bugs and making it hard for me to clean stalls :/

 

[championsumatra]

I have two splash hens one has lots of black in her, the other one has no black at all. Which one is better for breeding blues? I asked that to my self three years ago so I did a experament. what I realized is that if you breed a splash that has lots of black in her, the chicks she will have lots of black splotches in them. but if you breed the other splash with no black in her, her chicks will come out with no black splotches at all.

 

[ramirezframing]

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My kids have a hackney pony that would flip feed outta his feed bucket to feed the yard rooster, so the yard rooster would leave him alone. But when we moved the hackney's pen the rooster wouldn't move with him and tried to teach the old arabian that we put in that pen the same trick, but the old arabian won't share his feed at all. It was funny to watch. And it took the hackney a few years before he finally stopped "feeding" the rooster that was no longer there.

 

[raph]

Talking of roos i love my Rir rooster. He is cute, he has an amazing character. one day i was trying to catch him and he kept running away, and Roy(the Rir) ran in the barn and literally buried his head in a hay bail.he was all lively and running away one minute but once his head was submerged in the bail he was still as a rock, he's a funny boy. When roy was coming into his manly hood, his hens started to follow him around, before that they would attack him. It was funny to watch because Roy would run away looking quite scared when his Sussex hens chased him. and they would run after him because thats naturally what they would do, but then when they caught up with him they would attack him. It's interesting watching the conflict of nature and instinct.

Does anyone else have any stories about their chucks?

 

[championsumatra]

Quote: that funny I have a sumatra rooster Named Rob Roy

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Hearing about the horse feeding the rooster reminds me of how our cockatoo tosses feed to the dogs.

Here is one of our promising looking dun cockerels

 

[Raheem Hawj]

Love the Sumatra Breed! similar breed