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Must be a slow news day in Portland, OR, as a chicken crossing the road has made headlines.....

 

[subhanalah]

Must be a slow news day in Portland, OR, as a chicken crossing the road has made headlines.....

did it look like this?

 

[vehve]

Quote: The roo for the mix is a BCM x (BCM x Cuckoo Marans), and the hen is something along the lines of (Araucana x ?) x (Orpington OR some sort of Silkie x Finnish Landrace), or at least this is what the person who sold us the eggs told us. Looking at the birds, I don't think there's Orpington in there, I'm leaning towards the Silkie x landrace cross in there. But to put it shortly, a bit of everything. Made for a pretty chicken though, even though her hairdo is a bit questionable.



Here's a roo from the same mix.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thank you Ron. I will check the run.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Thank you Ron. I will check the run.
This isn't much comfort, but luckily it wasn't something contagious.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[chickadoodles]

They can get quite agile when pressed. She saved her own life. It only takes a quick bite from a dog and they're gone.

My penedesencas (as Ron puts it) are very respectful of fences and will stay inside a 3 foot fence. In fact I had been keeping roosters in a 2' pen. If pressed though they can fly straight up 10'.

Speaking of chickens.

I have chicks coming out the wazoo.

I have 7 older chicks, 11 hatched last week, 11 hatched this week and 4 more are pipping. There's another 60 eggs that will hatch in a staggered fashion. 12 due Friday and 15 more due Monday.

Congrats on all the chicks CC that is wonderful!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thank you Ron. I will check the run.
This isn't much comfort, but luckily it wasn't something contagious.

Sorry for your loss.
Thank you Felix and I am glad it was nothing to worry about.

 

[Wisher1000]

Those are nice looking feathers, bama. Someone seems to be lurking behind the mower too.

thanks. They are hatchery quality brahmas. I was proud of them until i posted pics on the brahma breeders thread. They knocked my pride down pretty good. What type of cross did u use for ur olive eggs?

You know, this really ticks me off. Don't let someone else's opinion of your birds make you feel they are not worth your pride. Everyone places the worth of their birds based on what they want. Some value them for their companionship and think a flighty breed is worthless. Some want top production and plenty of meat on a carcas. They have no use for a bantam. Others want to aim for perfection based on the standard, but ignore utility. To each his own. I don't mind anyone thinking highly of one set and less of another, until they start making someone, like our Dude, feel embarrassed about what is close to his heart. Would they run down someone's child? Or drawing? Or cooking? Or car? Or house? Probably, but if so, they are not the ones whose opinions I will put stock in. He's a lovely bird, Dude, even if he is not like a picture in a book. Different is not bad, unless the same is what you want.

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by ChickenCanoe

I read something about the FF thread getting weird but I don't know what the issue was. I used to follow it but the same questions were asked over and over I quit going there. I noticed the lady that started the thread hasn't posted on it for 2 months.

some individuals got butt hurt when administration didn't kiss their behinds for "all they do for BYC" thinking the rules didn't apply to them.

The thread starter for the FF thread has not posted at all on BYC since June 17.

There are a lot of threads where the same question is asked over and over. Most of the answers are in the first couple of pages though.

Fermented Feed seems to be one of those things that create a lot of passion. I tried it but did not like it at all.

 

[vehve]

Quote: You know, this really ticks me off. Don't let someone else's opinion of your birds make you feel they are not worth your pride. Everyone places the worth of their birds based on what they want. Some value them for their companionship and think a flighty breed is worthless. Some want top production and plenty of meat on a carcas. They have no use for a bantam. Others want to aim for perfection based on the standard, but ignore utility. To each his own. I don't mind anyone thinking highly of one set and less of another, until they start making someone, like our Dude, feel embarrassed about what is close to his heart. Would they run down someone's child? Or drawing? Or cooking? Or car? Or house? Probably, but if so, they are not the ones whose opinions I will put stock in. He's a lovely bird, Dude, even if he is not like a picture in a book. Different is not bad, unless the same is what you want.
I must say, Bama's Brahma is more appealing to me than some that might be SOP. And I think that utility should always be kept in mind when breeding something. I'm more familiar with dogs than chickens, but there are quite a lot of breeds that are useless for their originally intended use. Labradors and German Shepards have been bread into fat and bad boned sorry looking things with no working instincts. And some breeds have a description that says "The nose should be as short as possible", which has been okay a hundred years ago when they were a lot longer, but 50 generations of breeding with that sentence in mind, means that you get dogs that are more relaxed intubated, than they have ever been normally. Crazy in my opinion.