I looked up the SFH because it was driving me nuts. Beautiful birds. I actually think my little peanut looks like one, I have a bantam that I have no idea what it could be, I need to take new photo's of her to post, but I've had people tell me she looks like a Mille at her 5 week photos, but now at 8 weeks old, she has tons of white feathers mixed in with her tan and black. I doubt she is even mixed with one, but a few of the birds looked just like her.
I finally have a moment at the computer without little fingers trying to help. so glad you are doing better Sundance, wish i could say the same probably lost my job due to a medication change that went bad, but my girls have kept me out of the hospital. my son got me chicks for mothers day,
does any one have any ideas on how to start a breeding program in a neighborhood that doesn't allow roosters?
Bad news--something got into the Isbar coop I have in the garage last night. I had 18 7 week old Isbars out there and whatever it was killed 9 of them. Bunch of blood going from the nesting area down the board that goes down to the run and soaked into the bedding at the bottom. Most of the birds look like they might have been shaken to death. Several of them have leg wounds. Whatever it was left 7 alive and okay and 2 more alive but looking damaged/traumatized. We think it might have been the little obnoxious yappy mutt our neighbors have that keeps getting loose from them and chasing our cats. It was in our yard again yesterday trying to chase my 6 year old and could easily have seen the birds in the garage before our neighbor caught it. There were a couple of dents in the hardware cloth near the door, all the dead chicks piled in one corner. The only way it could have gotten in is by lifting the lid on the nesting box, which it could pretty easily have done (that's been corrected now). What a mess.
Daloorashens-- I don't think it is a good time to take more chicks, unfortunately, se we will pass on the SFH this time.
