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[taimon01]

Hers another pic of 'dave' (only called that cause s teacher named her/him!)

Dave looks like an bluebell and for the other one maybe an light sussex

 

[Oneyummymummy]

Ooo that's 2 shouts for a bluebell. I'm googling now!

 

[Rudies Roost]

Dave looks like an bluebell and for the other one maybe an light sussex

Hi there...definitely a bluebell...i have one that looks the same, a sussex (maybe a sussex star, hybrid cross) the brown could be a columbian blacktail. I'm rubbish at sexing them but there is a thread on here about "have i got a cockerel or a pullet" that may be able to help. They all look super, enjoy x

 

[Oneyummymummy]

Ooooo I love that. You sound like you know your stuff so that's decided. Dave's a bluebell!
They are all as silly as they are sweet and I love them to bits!!

 

[Oneyummymummy]

And so you think Ginger Rogers is a col. Blacktail, I think you're right! What a lovely little bunch they are! Thank you x

 

[Rudies Roost]

Ooooo I love that. You sound like you know your stuff so that's decided. Dave's a bluebell!
They are all as silly as they are sweet and I love them to bits!!

So here is my bluebell hen for comparison...

She is a devil....and always hungry! Quite the character x

 

[Rudies Roost]

@Yorkshirecoop

Love the squeaky cockerel....bless him!

 

[rebrascora]

I agree Dave is a bluebell. Although that comb is quite red, I'm not sure if bluebells aren't a sex linked hybrid and if so, Dave must be an early developing Davina.
I just lost my Blue Haze (Bluebell under different trade name) to a respiratory infection that resulted in an abscess in her throat. She was a real trougher as regards food too, so I called her Scranner Anna. Euthanizing her was incredibly difficult for me but necessary to put her out of her suffering. RIP Anna.

I agree that your flock looks like a Light Sussex, a Bluebell and either a production red or maybe a black tail but I would have expected more black on the neck and tail for a black tail. They are a lovely looking trio.

@Yorkshire coop

Hi Kim

Yes your little cockerel with his pathetic little voice did give me a much needed chuckle too, especially after the week I had!

Chicks look great but it's a shame your hatch was so poor. Have you had any feedback from Durham Hens about their fertility again this time? I know going though the post gives them a hard time but that still seems a pretty disappointing result.
Frances is doing a tremendous job with her little brood. I am amazed each evening when she has managed to marshal all 9 around the yard and then get them back into the hen house at night, especially as I often go up there during the day and find two or three stragglers cheeping away like mad for their Mam and the yard is full of so many hazards, including horses feet! It was great fun watching them dust bathing the other day! The broody in the shed that I can't get to, seems to be doing quite well and is a week into it now. Unfortunately the welsummer eggs that I gave Tasha are a bit thin shelled and one has broken already, which resulted in one of the light sussex eggs sticking to Tasha and when she got off the nest for a break, it got trailed out and broken too..... so she's down to eleven already.

I think maybe I need those welsummer eggs to go in an incubator as they are probably just too fragile for a broody hen. I knew I was taking a risk with them but had hoped Tasha might manage it because she's just a small bird. I also have a pekin on one egg that must be due or overdue. Unfortunately I didn't take a note of the date when she started clocking and she moved nests one day about half way through, which may have caused it to chill, so I may need to remove it soon in case it explodes but will give it a couple more days just in case.

Pleased to report horses all seem to be on the mend which is a relief but more than I can say for my bank balance! Still having to be very careful about feeding and I now have a field full of grass that I have nurtured all spring but daren't let them out onto and of course my fences and gates are taking some stick from them because they can see and smell it, but won't be satisfied until they are tasting it too. May have to strip graze it with an electric fence.

Must crack on now and get some work done in the garden.

Regards

Barbara

 

[Oneyummymummy]

Aw she's beautiful! I can see 'dave' heading her way in the colours. He started out really black but getting more blue/grey by the day. Each day I swing from def a girl to def a boy! So intrigued to know. And if he is a girl I think I'll still have to refer to her as him cause I'm too used to it now!

 

[Oneyummymummy]

Oh Barbara I'm so sorry to hear of Anna. That is so sad. Xxxxx. Thank you so much for your helpful thoughts on my trio. They do look so pretty together and are kinda of inseparable. I would be so upset to lose any of them.
I say kinda.... Daisy (white) is so daft dhe keeps getting herself the other side of our fence in next doors garden and panicking like mad when she does, yet can't see the fence hole right next to her. Funny how they all 'chat' to each other. Awwww