The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[GingersHuman]

You have a nice little assortment of birds there. Definitely some Old English Game Bantams in the group. It's fun to have a bunch of different breeds and even the crosses can be fabulous. My favorite trio of little hens, sisters with the same father and Barred Rock mothers, were appropriately named The Poufy Head Sisters. Kate, Tux and Olivia were the most precious hens, all three different sizes who each laid a correspondingly sized egg. I miss those sweeties a lot. They were an accidental breeding from a friend's flock. She had an elderly Cochin-Silkie cross rooster that she thought was infertile. Surprise! He sired these girls and one brother (I sold him) and then kicked the bucket a few weeks later.
One of my sweetest hens now is my dark red hen,Rita, another unauthorized breeding. She hatched from a blue egg out of a BBS Ameraucana flock, but the breeder's husband's BLRW rooster had gotten in with the Ameraucana hens and I got Rita. She looks nothing like either breed and lays a brown egg when, by all rights and genetic rules, it should be green. So, a mixed flock can be a ton of fun! 

Thanks! If these new chicks are all (or at least 2) pullets, I'll probably only let Little hatch one time next year. I'd like to see what she and Smidge (OEGB) would produce together. I do love my mutts!

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, look! An Imperial Moth caterpillar! The bantams decided it was way too big and juicy to eat, though both Carly and Aimee gave it a peck.






What it turns into: http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Imperial-Moth

 

[GingersHuman]

Cool! That's huge!

 

[holm25]

That's cool Cyn!

 

[holm25]

Well Cyn... I am sad to say we r selling your favorite cow, Lady. We are getting out of milk cows and into just beef. But here is an updated picture of her and her not so brindle calf!

 

[speckledhen]

Well Cyn... I am sad to say we r selling your favorite cow, Lady. We are getting out of milk cows and into just beef. But here is an updated picture of her and her not so brindle calf!

I'll miss her! I love that cow. But, a farmer's gotta do what a farmer's gotta do, I get that. Hope your all-beef cattle project works out well for your family, Isaiah. But, no more Lady pictures...bummer. Sniff, sniff.

 

[getaclue]

I too am sorry to hear you are giving up the dairy cows, as I like it when you post pics of them. Good luck with your beef cattle project.

 

[speckledhen]

I have to say that Hector's early morning crow (and he uses does it more than any other rooster here, first thing every a.m.) sounds like someone choking a howling coyote. That is all.

 

[1muttsfan]

 

[GingersHuman]

I have to say that Hector's early morning crow (and he uses does it more than any other rooster here, first thing every a.m.) sounds like someone choking a howling coyote. That is all. :/