Virginia

[lori stetson]

This is our first trip to Gilmanor and decided to leave the birds home and ck it out as tourists. CAN'T WAIT! Here's what I'm looking to pick up if anyone has or can point us in the direction of some breeder quality birds: 2 to 4 each of black australorps, lavender orphingtons, buff orphiingtons and auracaunas, all LF pullets or female chicks. Also keeping an eye out for a young buff orph roo and a starter group of speckled sussex. ( 6 pens, 5 breeds is my self- imposed limit although hubby says raising poultry is like having horses- always one more horse than you have stalls. I'll show him!) I'm just counting on my usual method of buying the target birds first and running out of money b4 I fall in love w anything else. Lol. We'll be looking for you byc people so if you spot 2 older folks wearing Stetson hats and overwhelmed looks on their faces that would be us. Cant wait to see old and new people. Drive carefully everyone! Lori Stetson

 

[ki4got]

ok, well hubby had an idea... actually a pretty good one for once (when chickens are involved!) LOL

so many people seem to love weeble, want more of weeble, etc. I'm thinking of combining weeble and sfh for a calico EE that's occasionally crested. 8) how's that sound?

but i'd probably aim for the clean legs than feathered weebs has. and no, this won't replace my sfh pen. but it might find a use for some extra sfh i wouldn't have room for in THAT pen... but it'd also mean raising some chicks out to maturity to see if they have the blue egg gene.

whatcha think?

for those who don't know weeble, here he is (again). love this guy.

 

[Maggiesdad]

That dude's got panache...

 

[Bulldogma]

That dude's got panache...

LOL - took the longest time to tell he was a roo!

 

[Bulldogma]

OK - for those going to Gilmanor - I'll be bringing:

A flock of Dark Cornish - 1 SQ hen, 3 breeding quality hens (all laying) and one breeding quality roo. Will be sold as a flock.
Week-old Dark Cornish Chicks
A "Pet" bantam Cochin rooster (maybe). This is a good-looking, child-safe bird bred by ki4got.
Week-old Swedish Flower Hen Chicks (likely all spoken for)
3-4 12-week-old barnyard mixes
2 Purebred Swedish Flower Hen cockerels - @ 9 weeks:

Blue-based on left, black-based on right.

If anyone is interested in anything in particular, please PM me.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: had me guessing for 8 or 9 months before i caught him chasing the girls. took a few more months for him to finally crow (within my hearing at least).

 

[ki4got]

OK - for those going to Gilmanor - I'll be bringing:

A flock of Dark Cornish - 1 SQ hen, 3 breeding quality hens (all laying) and one breeding quality roo. Will be sold as a flock.
Week-old Dark Cornish Chicks
A "Pet" bantam Cochin rooster (maybe). This is a good-looking, child-safe bird bred by ki4got.
Week-old Swedish Flower Hen Chicks (likely all spoken for)
3-4 12-week-old barnyard mixes
2 Purebred Swedish Flower Hen cockerels - @ 9 weeks:

Blue-based on left, black-based on right.

If anyone is interested in anything in particular, please PM me.

the cochin is a buff columbian from my mille fleur cochin pen... put with a mfc girl they'd give mostly mille fleur. he DID hatch out mottled, but it faded.

 

[Bulldogma]

the cochin is a buff columbian from my mille fleur cochin pen... put with a mfc girl they'd give mostly mille fleur. he DID hatch out mottled, but it faded.

And he has thrown mottled chicks already... with a white Silkie of all things!

 

[ki4got]

ok, well, i almost forgot... eggs went into lockdown today. a day late, but the sfh have been cooking a bit longer than usual so...

i've got SFH, BLRW & MFC. for the uninitiated, that's swedish flower hen, blue laced red wyandotte and mille fleur cochin (bantam). we'll see if weeble's influence on the blrw wore off by this batch. LOL pretty sure the blrw looking chick is his too, from it's dark feet, even tho it REALLY looks like a blrw in the body pattern (ok, it's a week old so far...)

gotta get a broody set up for these guys. i've got 41 eggs in the hatcher... ok. a couple broodies, i guess. well, maybe 3. LOL i've got 3 mfc girls all being broody in the same nest... so maybe that'll work out.

thinking actually i'll split the chicks by breed, maybe. since the mfc will not be going to Gilmanor with me, but the others might... some of the sfh are already spoken for, and someone else was possibly interested in blrw, tho i'd like to see how they mature. so if anyone takes any of them i expect photo updates!

 

[jmarie]

sigh
lost my daughters favorite chicken today from being egg bound. I was going to cull her but was going to wait after Gilmanor to have her disappear so the distraction of some new chickens softened the blow a bit. my other 3 all lay great eggs but she always had odd, super huge thin shelled eggs, followed by fart eggs and then last week all eggs stopped completely. some of eggs would break as soon as you touched them, she was less than a year old and had started laying only since Jan. I could not get her to pass anything and could not feel anything.
That chicken loved to be carried around and my eldest said that "henry" had crunched when she had jumped up to be held this weekend. I did the rubber glove thing not could not feel anything, did warm water clean of vent area.... I did not want to put pressure on her belly for fear of those thin shelled eggs breaking and made a no holding rule.....she was acting normal all day yesterday.

My regret is that I waited to cull, her system has never been normal and the other chickens all lay great eggs so I do not think it is a diet problem. she had a great personality but I regret that she died probably from infection instead of me helping her along.