The Wyandotte Thread

[gootziecat]

How cool is that!!??

 

[Yvonne13]

I have a Silver Laced Wydonatte, she is a beautiful bird but the biggest bully. She has killed two of my other birds and injured another so bad she had to be isolated for weeks. Is this normal behavior/attitude from this breed?

 

[Yvonne13]

I have also separated the bully, it seemed to work for a while but she went back to her bad habits.

 

[PeakyBeaky]

 

[NanaKat]

I have a Silver Laced Wydonatte, she is a beautiful bird but the biggest bully. She has killed two of my other birds and injured another so bad she had to be isolated for weeks. Is this normal behavior/attitude from this breed?

No, this is not. Send her to noodle land.

 

[Chickenhill]

I lost my last pullet from last year . So sad... We found her in the coop with a broken neck and nothing else. I hate how all of these "freak accidents" keep happening to my birds... I had one bird get a broken neck from a guinea jumping off the coop and landing on her. So frustrating!!

So sorry, never easy to find our lovelys in such a state. She was such a beautiful lady.

In your opinions does this chart of feathers show a good example of ideal silver laced male saddle feathers along with defective ones? I did the idealized from memory so probably need to go back and perfect it. Is this chart helpful in showing a decent variety? Should I take on out? include another defect?

(from left to right) Idealized, natural, (5 defective feathers) to much white and to narrow(?), Black fades out at base, discoloration on white with right side with uneven color, discoloration on white center pattern not shown, black disappearing to much white in feather.

You certainly have a gift. Very nice!

 

[Chickenhill]

Juanita, our SL, had a bad case of poopy butt. Guess her butt is just too fluffy. So I brought her in to clean her up. The problem was worse than I though so I broke out the scissors and whittled away. Tried to be conservative but when I got done with her, between her feathers being wet back there and my whittling, she had a baboons butt!

Thankfully when it dried she fluffed back out and today has lost most of the monkey look.





Wish I would have got a pic of her baboon butt but I was kinda horrified.

Nice feather cut, your hired. Come on over this spring to trim You still got a broody Partridge?

 

[Chickenhill]

The chocolates have come a long way from last year. This is a super fun project.
2013 pullet

2013 pullet


2012 pullet

2013 Cockerel

 

[DMRippy]

I lost my only choc pullet. I was moving birds yesterday and found a choc roo a black roo (might be split) a black pullet and 2 choc pullets.

I also found a choc orps roo maybe I can get both going next year.

 

[ki4got]

I lost my only choc pullet. I was moving birds yesterday and found a choc roo a black roo (might be split) a black pullet and 2 choc pullets.

I also found a choc orps roo maybe I can get both going next year.

lost? or found? i'm confused. you lost one but found two?