well, good news and bad news... good news, i passed the chicks that hatched along to bulldogma, so she's got new peepers to raise up, and i got a baby (uncrested) roo from her that's just the sweetest thing...
bad news, redneck, aka underfoot, seems to be accident prone. first he got stepped on, ripped feathers from his breast and split the skin pretty bad. a bit of superglue to hold it together for a few days, and he was good as new, the scab was almost gone. and today, he got stepped on again! this time his leg. looks like it was shattered in several spots, so we had to put him down...
why is it always the friendliest and favoritest that happens to? why couldn't it be one of the 'SOB' type roos who you wouldn't miss?
either he was split-winged or moulting, and his tail would go crooked when it was wet out (straight when it was dry), but don't know if that was a wry tail or just a quirk. i was hoping to grow him out and make a determination of breeder or flock protector...
redneck's on the left, bubba (both crested) on the right. the 2 girls in the background, and also individually below...
blue mottled w/ red leakage on her neck
blue/red mottled crested girl.
no pics of the new little boy or his 3 new pullet friends that i hatched from some more of bulldogma's eggs a week or so after he hatched. 8) kinda funny. she got 3 roos i got 3 pullets...
bad news, redneck, aka underfoot, seems to be accident prone. first he got stepped on, ripped feathers from his breast and split the skin pretty bad. a bit of superglue to hold it together for a few days, and he was good as new, the scab was almost gone. and today, he got stepped on again! this time his leg. looks like it was shattered in several spots, so we had to put him down...
why is it always the friendliest and favoritest that happens to? why couldn't it be one of the 'SOB' type roos who you wouldn't miss?
either he was split-winged or moulting, and his tail would go crooked when it was wet out (straight when it was dry), but don't know if that was a wry tail or just a quirk. i was hoping to grow him out and make a determination of breeder or flock protector...
redneck's on the left, bubba (both crested) on the right. the 2 girls in the background, and also individually below...
blue mottled w/ red leakage on her neck
blue/red mottled crested girl.
no pics of the new little boy or his 3 new pullet friends that i hatched from some more of bulldogma's eggs a week or so after he hatched. 8) kinda funny. she got 3 roos i got 3 pullets...
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