The Legbar Thread!

[ChicKat]

Remember when Rinda found that color test site? (post 2879)

Take a look at this about color variations:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beau-...=maing-grid7|maing8|dl5|sec1_lnk3&pLid=235701


That rubic's club looking thing...I could have sworn that they were different colors. :O)

Sooo are my eggs...blue or green or blue-green and does it depend upon what is near.

 

[puglady]

Puglady -
The diagonal comb and fluffy crest and lighter feather development-- I have identical -- IDENTICAL - little guy out in the pen. I wonder if they are related --LOL. I'll try to get a picture.

Unfortunatelly Depp is the only one left. I culled for the twisted comb and had 2 boys left. The nasty hawk came back a couple of days ago and Cloony defended his ladies. I have some younger stock now from GFF that came in within the last 1 1/2 weeks and am in the middle of acquiring a kennel and adding poultry netting for their run so this doesn't happen again.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Remember when Rinda found that color test site? (post 2879)

Take a look at this about color variations:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beau-...=maing-grid7|maing8|dl5|sec1_lnk3&pLid=235701


That rubic's club looking thing...I could have sworn that they were different colors. :O)

Sooo are my eggs...blue or green or blue-green and does it depend upon what is near.

Love it! As a mathematician who was fascinated by physics in college this stuff really tickles me. I have always loved optical illusions.
This is why when I photograph blue eggs I put them on a white plate with a red delicious apple- it helps your eye get a better sense of the blue!

Rinda

ETA: sorry puglady, that's rough. We have yet to lose one to a hawk but I'm sure when we have littler ones growing out next spring we will have our share of hawk losses.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Unfortunatelly Depp is the only one left. I culled for the twisted comb and had 2 boys left. The nasty hawk came back a couple of days ago and Cloony defended his ladies. I have some younger stock now from GFF that came in within the last 1 1/2 weeks and am in the middle of acquiring a kennel and adding poultry netting for their run so this doesn't happen again.

Sorry about the hawk issues. I am having the same trouble. Lost my super rare White Empordanesa and my Icelandic rooster too him plus a icelandic hen. all this in 3 days.
Yesterday in the rain I built a 10x10 dog run with a top made of galvanized stucco wire ( much stronger than poultry wire or even hardware cloth)
I attached it to the coop until the hawk goes away they will be going out there instead of the chicken yard.

 

[puglady]

Sorry about the hawk issues. I am having the same trouble. Lost my super rare White Empordanesa and my Icelandic rooster too him plus a icelandic hen. all this in 3 days.
Yesterday in the rain I built a 10x10 dog run with a top made of galvanized stucco wire ( much stronger than poultry wire or even hardware cloth)
I attached it to the coop until the hawk goes away they will be going out there instead of the chicken yard.

So sorry for your losses, its definitely tough. I have a neighbor on here(BYC) that has rare breeds as well and we share the same neighborhood hawk. She lost a bunch of CL girls and a boy this summer to the hawk . I understand that they're protected but theres got to be a time when enoughs enough and sss needs to come into play. I've been letting them out late in the afternoon for an hour before dusk and sitting there with them for the last few days but its not enough for them. I fenced 1+ acres of the yard in for them to free range in. The fence and dogs seemed to have kept the ground predators away but the hawks a different story.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I agree. I can see why they are protected. however people like us are not killing them for sport. If they want proof I can gladly show them the rest of my poor chickens..
I talked to a Warden He said" Techicanlly they are protected but I am not going to tell you what you should or should not do to protect your flock.
I have a huge area as well so hopefully he goes away so I can let them back out. I understand loosing birds is part of the deal in the country. I would not feel as bad if I lost 1 a year but 3 in 3 days is unacceptable and the hawk is now a pest and is not doing what it is supposed to be doing. eating varmints. now it is a varmint.

 

[puglady]

I agree. I can see why they are protected. however people like us are not killing them for sport. If they want proof I can gladly show them the rest of my poor chickens..
I talked to a Warden He said" Techicanlly they are protected but I am not going to tell you what you should or should not do to protect your flock.
I have a huge area as well so hopefully he goes away so I can let them back out. I understand loosing birds is part of the deal in the country. I would not feel as bad if I lost 1 a year but 3 in 3 days is unacceptable and the hawk is now a pest and is not doing what it is supposed to be doing. eating varmints. now it is a varmint.

Yes, exactly. 7 of her rare ones, 1 of mine. I raise hatchery pullets as well and he took at least a dozen of these over the summer. Definitely a vermin.

 

[lawatt]

I agree. I can see why they are protected. however people like us are not killing them for sport. If they want proof I can gladly show them the rest of my poor chickens..
I talked to a Warden He said" Techicanlly they are protected but I am not going to tell you what you should or should not do to protect your flock.
I have a huge area as well so hopefully he goes away so I can let them back out. I understand loosing birds is part of the deal in the country. I would not feel as bad if I lost 1 a year but 3 in 3 days is unacceptable and the hawk is now a pest and is not doing what it is supposed to be doing. eating varmints. now it is a varmint.

I'm sure this is not what you want to read at this point, but if one hawk has figured out how to get at your chickens, others will too, even if you scare this one away -- they are smart animals, and naturally hunt small birds and rodents -- so a bunch of chickens out in the open probably look like cookies on a plate to them. the only long-term solution is to build a more protective space for them.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

yes that is the only way to be completely sure

 

[blackbirds13]

Said hawk will actually sit on the top rail of the chain link kennel panels that my birds are penned in until he hears us at the door or window. When a section of the netting in the back fell in I found him sitting in the back behind the coop just chomping away at my darkest laying BCM early this spring. They made a nest in the border area between my and my neighbors house this year and my husband thinks they may have had at least 2 young ones this year. They are beautiful birds but can wreak havoc on your flock...keeping my fingers crossed this year can get everyone throug to spring.