Sumatra Thread!

[Kae Pasa]

Thank you!

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She hasn't started yet, but she is almost 30 weeks, so any day now

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has she laid any eggs yet?

 

[Kae Pasa]

My poor new rooster, darn freezing temps....

how is he doing now?

 

[Kae Pasa]

roads are still a mess here and no sight of a plow anywhere
.....but that is normal for us. All the animals are doing fine but
I am wishing I had tried to convince one of my grandbabies to
stay over with us to help out some. We got sleet/rain on top of
the snow too and I ended up on my butt this morning getting the
chores done.........nothing got hurt bad but it is hard for me to
stand back up as I have very limited flex in a knee.

On the bright side I did get some brownies baked yesterday and
I'm thinking real hard on cookies or upside down cake for the DH.

hope you are ok.

 

[dsfrango]

how is he doing now?

I don't spend a whole lot of time with the birds lately since it's so cold and we just got another10inches of snow/ice but I'm sure he's just fine thanks for asking,

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I will admit, seeing the whole southeastern US basically shut down due to the snow has made me laugh a few times. Last week I was at work scraping frozen manure on a no-cab tractor with a windchill that made it feel like -28 with blowing/drifting snow. Now we're in the 40's which is causing flooding everywhere because the ground is still frozen and all the mountain runoff is coming down the valleys quick.

On a sumatra note, atleast half of the sumatras in the heated shed are laying now!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

I will admit, seeing the whole southeastern US basically shut down due to the snow has made me laugh a few times. Last week I was at work scraping frozen manure on a no-cab tractor with a windchill that made it feel like -28 with blowing/drifting snow. Now we're in the 40's which is causing flooding everywhere because the ground is still frozen and all the mountain runoff is coming down the valleys quick.

On a sumatra note, atleast half of the sumatras in the heated shed are laying now!

It makes me laugh too fmp but I live here now and these folks just
don't know how to handle this white stuff because they don't get it
very often and they really aren't equipped to deal with it. I do however
like the warmer temps of winter.....when we have them

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Is he a bantam?

He looks like a LF to me.

 

[ST3PH3N]

Here's a pullet from MMcM and it looks to me like she's somewhat frizzled. Does anyone know of frizzled sumatras (I think I've seen a photo of one somewhere) I'm not a fan of frizzles and know nothing of how the gene works but with this girl only the very tips of the feathers curl somewhat and it makes her very very soft to the touch. The light also catches her feathers nicely in a unique way so I'm debating a project here... any thoughts or suggestions would be great!

-Stephen

 

[Peep-Chicken]

has she laid any eggs yet?

Two of the polish the same age as her started squatting. I really have my fingers crossed for her! Thanks for asking .

 

[Infnityhrt]

Here's a pullet from MMcM and it looks to me like she's somewhat frizzled. Does anyone know of frizzled sumatras (I think I've seen a photo of one somewhere) I'm not a fan of frizzles and know nothing of how the gene works but with this girl only the very tips of the feathers curl somewhat and it makes her very very soft to the touch. The light also catches her feathers nicely in a unique way so I'm debating a project here... any thoughts or suggestions would be great!

-Stephen

Someone had a frizzle at a show in Kennewick Wa last spring.. I do not like frizzles and making them in a sumatra is not pretty in my book, but different strokes for different folks Does she spend alot of time indoors? Sometimes when I raise chicks to long in the chick shed there feathers look thin and like that, a few weeks outside and they begin to "normalize". She has quite a bit of white tips.. or is that just the picture? I know you shouldn't breed two frizzles together is about all I know of frizzles. Good Luck on your project if that is what your wanting to do