The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

Bless their hearts they need each other.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Well we have in the house again. There's another bad storm pushing over during meds time.
The AC hen was considerably easier to catch after yesterday's r&r. I spent dinner time in there with her and for the most part she is letting me pick her up. Though the cockerel is still much sweeter about it. Multiple pictures to showcase the "You Don't Own Me I Own You" look, and her sheen. The one with the goofball in the mirror is size comparison.

 

[Trimurtisan]

The AC cockerel is very easy to get on my hand. The problem is getting him off. He does not like his world to be off balance at all and flaps those wings hard, but won't fly off. Hey just flaps to his center gravity and scratches along the way. I still love him.

He wanted to wave bye!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Beautiful Chris.

 

[rjohns39]

Beautiful Chris.

X2

 

[learycow]

Does anybody offhand know if green beetleing is a sign of tricolor in Ancona ducks? I've got at least two that I can clearly see it on. It's so pretty.

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Green sheen is common and desired on black anconas

 

[Trimurtisan]

Green sheen is common and desired on black anconas

You mean I've just got some regular birds!?
Ughh!
I quit!

 

[Trimurtisan]

I'm just joking @learycow thank you for chiming in. I didn't realize they would get the green sheen to begin with, so normal or not it's still pretty cool to me.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Beautiful Chris.

X2

Thanks guys!
The cockerel is actually just sitting in my lap while I sit and read. There is music playing, 17 ducklings and 6 small chicks in the same room, and he is just as relaxed as can be.

 

[Trimurtisan]

So todays oral drench of corid was much easier than yesterdays. I find the smaller birds easier to restrain, but the larger AC's are much easier to get their mouth open and to stay open. I feel like I'm going to hurt the smaller chicken when they start to struggle so I end up letting go and retrying. I don't think I mentioned it here, but I ended up squirting 1/2 the dose right in the AC cockerlels eye yesterday... Anybody want to guess what levels the freak out meters where reading? I was getting very fast responses with help though, and the big fella is doing A-OK.

So the AC's are weighing in at 34oz for the male and 24oz for the female. The smallest chicken in house at the moment weighs in at a whopping 76gr. It's the smallest bantam left. There was one about 1/2 it's size, but it didn't make it.

A'pollo has some very nice red'ish chocolate looking feathers coming in. His father was mostly white with a star-burst like pattern of the same red/chocolate color. I'll try to get some pictures of him and Nuggest tomorrow. Nugget is very pretty, but her plumage has not really changes much in regards to colors, but she looks like their mom in general which is okay with me.

So, I'm just going to throw this out there... I really prefer the look of rosters over hens. Besides being a really (really) bad idea, I'd love to just have 30 roosters in 20 different breeds. Heck I could have 20 different American game roosters and just drool all day. Although I've come to learn, a jerkface rooster is not a good thing.

I'd still like at least 1 game rooster though. I've written a few people from Gainesville down to Tampa, and I've yet to find someone who I think is selling legit none fighting birds. As Lisa, my guinea farmer friend put it "If it's an immaculate looking rooster selling for $75-$150 when it should be around $30-$40, it's likely a fighting cock." I think she has a good point too. Unless it's for a show chicken, most ads are right in the coop or yard, of regular "dirt bathed" birds. The $75 game roosters don't look to have a spec of dirt or a misplaced feather on them. Who wants to buy a beat up looking fighting bird? It better look strong and healthy, pampered even. I don't know... That might be a bad way of looking at it, but it seems logical to me... I understand rare bloodlines and imports, as 2 of the sellers I contacted tried to explain, but the average game rooster seller would barley say more that "It's $75, come get it."

This fella sold for $250 on Ebay, but it is a pure O-Shamo Stag import. I wouldn't spend that (ehh if I had it I might) on a single rooster, but I do find him absolutely wonderful to look at, and would happily house one.

https://ocala.craigslist.org/grd/d/trenton-shamo-stag-big-shamo/6895684760.html
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Shamo-Stag...691164?hash=item5d8bc1c7dc:g:gw8AAOSwoTBc70pd