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[ApiaryandAviary]

Next spring-March time frame, if my sweet hubby will let me and not hang me by my toes, I would like to buy a roo and a couple of pullet Swedish Flower hens from you.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Any recommendations on where to advertise extra roos and chicks for sale other than CL? I have someone coming to take 4 today, but that's due to an offline interaction. I plan to post in Buy-Sell-Trade today, but looking for ideas. I'm near Petersburg if it makes a difference. I'll process the boys if I have to at 18 weeks, but we're talking mostly Ameraucanas and Legbars - they won't have much meat judging by the Ameraucana roo I (reluctantly) took in!

I know soneone interested in Ameraucanas. Not me. Please let me know of you still have any available. Thank you

 

[vpatt]

I have owned hundreds of Phoenix Bantams and Ohikis.
This looks like a little Phoenix Bantam that may have a little Ayam Cemani in it or could be FM, which makes it more expensive and exotic.
All I can ask is did you get it from me?
If you did all I can say is I had two Ayam Cemani girls that laid their eggs in the nest boxes of the Ohiki's & Phoenix Bantams.
I tried to do my best to separate them and I did tell people I had a couple of Ayam Cemanis running loose.
And yes, if the question is in your head, the Phoenix, Phoenix Bantam & Ohiki roos made whoopee with my two Ayam Cemani' girls, now I own one bc we found one dead by the Driveway one day.
The other Ayam Cemani sleeps with the Gingerbreadman and his women and she roams with those girls all day. Listen if your dont want her I know a lady that does, no not me.
Also something else I disscovered about where I bought my Ohikis & Phoenix Bantams, they both keep Sumatra Bantams. Not a bad thing but a good thing If your breeding for certain traits.
Also I was told to separate and not breed any that may have feathers on their legs.
Why?
Because appx a decade ago one of the breeders added Cochin Bantams to their Ohiki.
Another thing, you must think, only a few were let out for the Japanese Dr from San Deigo University in conjuction with National Geographic for research a half a century ago! When he was done, they were given to a couple of guys.
One guy moved to Italy.
Some Ohiki and Phoenix Bantams and Phoenix were shipped in from Germany. Listen, Japan has not let Ohiki out for decades AND Phoenix and Phoenix Bantams are NOT Japanese, anyone that tells you that is very wrong!
Phoenix Bantams and Phoenix are European bred and shipped to the Americas.
So is it possible that after around ten years one can pop up with feathers on their feet?
Yes what to do?
Dont mate them with others unless they are being mated with Cochin Bantams.
So is it possible that a Sumatra Bantam looking one can pop up in the Phoenix Bantams after ten years?
I would say yes but I am not a Doctor in Biology or zoology or anything close to it. And yes is my guess, if again there is a thought in your head that Ayam Cemanis were mixed in with Ohiki and Phoenix Bantams, because they also keep Ayam Cemanis and had them before the craze. May be for certain traits to return them to how they once were in their days of glory.
Wow! I hope you can make sense of my quickly written answer. Again I am in the backseat of an SUV going through the mountains.
Really interested in Where did you get her and what did she cost?
She looks like a very pretty Phoenix Bantam by her body tail from what I can see and from what I can see her dark facing could be from FM or straight out a little Ayam Cemani or just a Gypsy face and that does happen. If she is a Sumatra Bantam or a Phoenix Bantam & Sumatra bantam mix or even Ayam Cemani she is still a beautiful bird. I say she because on my cell phone I can not see if she is a roo and by the way she could have spurs and still be a girl bc it goes with her territory the breeds that is..Jungle Fowl. Really, thank you for posting her picture.
How to make a Phoenix Bantam?
Phoenix roo mated with Ohiki.
Phoenix originally from Europe.
ohiki originally from Japan.
Now that said, the European Phoenix may have Jungle fowl from Japan in them.
Confused yet?
I have a 2 little Black and White's called a Silver Phoenix Bantam (both on the small side)roos. You want a free roo to go with the little girl?

I got her at a swap in Fishersville......i think she came from down around Amherst. The people selling them were (I think) not the owners but selling for someone else. They were driving à church van if that means anything to you. She has a very pretty turquoisey glimmer and I like her. She will not sleep in the coop. I'm sorry I can't take another rooster. Its just that when I looked up pictures she didn't look like the pictures. Also she did look like maybe a Sumatra. I.really know nothing about them. Will she lay eggs often? Be a good broody? I just wonder about her. She is a free spirit. She is at least three months old maybe more.....I have had her about 2.5 months. Not sure how old she was when I got her. I like her and her name is Ebony. Mostly I call her Ebonezer or Neezie. Her legs are dark and her face is dark sort of a purpley gray. Her comb is very tiny but I think it is a single.

 

[vpatt]

I got her at a swap in Fishersville......i think she came from down around Amherst. The people selling them were (I think) not the owners but selling for someone else. They were driving à church van if that means anything to you. She has a very pretty turquoisey glimmer and I like her. She will not sleep in the coop. I'm sorry I can't take another rooster. Its just that when I looked up pictures she didn't look like the pictures. Also she did look like maybe a Sumatra. I.really know nothing about them. Will she lay eggs often? Be a good broody? I just wonder about her. She is a free spirit. She is at least three months old maybe more.....I have had her about 2.5 months. Not sure how old she was when I got her. I like her and her name is Ebony. Mostly I call her Ebonezer or Neezie. Her legs are dark and her face is dark sort of a purpley gray. Her comb is very tiny but I think it is a single.

She really looks to me like the Sumatra pictures I see. But you aee saying they could all be mixed together? What does FM mean?

 

[capt toad]

I'm in need of a bit of info, please. I have four Australorp hens and two pullets which for the past week have laid a total of two eggs, both pullet, as I recall. Last fall/winter(my first) I had only four hens and production slowed way down, but this year it's virtually stopped! Any ideas, as to why? Everyone seems to be eating well and they get plenty of calcium... I've also got four game hens, which aren't known as good layers, that are laying 2-3 eggs per day. The BA's should be ashamed...

 

[vpatt]

I'm in need of a bit of info, please. I have four Australorp hens and two pullets which for the past week have laid a total of two eggs, both pullet, as I recall. Last fall/winter(my first) I had only four hens and production slowed way down, but this year it's virtually stopped! Any ideas, as to why? Everyone seems to be eating well and they get plenty of calcium... I've also got four game hens, which aren't known as good layers, that are laying 2-3 eggs per day. The BA's should be ashamed...

Are they getting enough protein? Less light slows them down. Moulting can slow down egg production. Protein is needed to make feathers and eggs Broodiness has messed up laying for a couple of mine. Age can play a part. One of mine did not appear to lose many feathers but has stopped laying....I don't know her age and I am beginning to think she may be older than I thought. If so then she can be the flock grandmother. I think everyone should have a grandmother.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

My girls have all but crossed their legs from all this snow.

Gee I should have written a book.

No I do not pass on live birds to give away. I give them to the people getting them. I give away more than sell bc if they dont meet certain requirements of mine they are free. Even some that do meet certain requirements are given away for free bc they may not be getting along with some of my others.
So here it is, information posted to some of the questions both posts an PM.

I keep a Black Sumatra Bantam hen and a Blue Sumatra Bantam hen in with my Schubert line (remember, European ancestry) Phoenix roo and his Phoenix Bantam(mix of European Phoenix with Japanese origins Ohiki) & Ohiki girls. I gave away all my Phoenix Pullets and hens because I only breed down in size and not larger when it comes to exotics and it will be years bf anything out of that run will be for sale ( I only give those/these off spring away that do not have the characteristics I am looking for) and most of my girls in that run have turquoise-white ears muffs and sheen.

Some of mine came from Geogia, some from Texas and some from California.

The Gingerbreadman is a Phoenix Bantam with Phoenix Bantam & Ohiki girls with mostly turquoise-white ear muffs and none with a turquoise or bottle green sheen on body.

I gave away the Phoenix daddy of the Phoenix Bantam roo in that run.
I gave away the last Ohiki with FM which is not a bad thing but a good thing. He was being picked on and had no women of his own. I wished I could have kept him just for the FM. But he needed to live and those two RIR and Australorp roos were a lot bigger. I did not have a run for the Ohiki roo with FM bc their were no pullets nor hens his equal so no separate runs. So he lived with the large barnyard mix in a separate field. My barnyard mix are not the ordinary run of chickens. They are the ones where I had only one or two eggs hatch from an order shipped in from the west coast, Texas or down south.
Lots of expensive roos, pullets & hens with no mates running with the RIR and Australorp from down at the barn.

FM short for Fibro Melanistic. A dark face with red-blue-purplely-black comb, wattles and beak with turquoise ear muffs.
Say, EXPENSIVE.

I did discover that I am not the only Phoenix, Phoenix Bantam, Ohiki owner that also keeps Sumatra Bantams, Cochin Bantams & Ayam Cemani's. All the others do also. I also raise Fly-Ties. To up their protein intake, I raise RIR. Australorp & Orpingtons for their eggs and feed back the eggs in their feed mixture with fats from the butcher AND not a butcher from WW of FL bc they dont do it. I go to a local slaugther house for fats but at this time of the year getting fats from them is difficult bc of the deer hunters.
Wish I could get those farmers that raise pumpkins to give me some. But what they dont sell, I am told they get reimbursed for by the gov for and til back into their soil. My boys & girls love pumpkins and I must raise more squash and such for them next year. I am planting an orchard just so the ones that hit the ground they will get.

Any questions? Please post all questions so others can see your questions. That way we all benefit from the q & a. If you PM I will post my answer so all can see the answers because I figure there may be others with the same questions. Ok?

Mostly I give away what does not fit my requirements.
If I sell at a flock swap the cost barely covers their feed really. This is a hobby for me and not a business. Hopefully some day I will turn it into a business and I will learn enough that I am not just a hobbiest. I am in my 60's so I dont have long to do that in, lol. I better hurry up.

 

[vpatt]

Apiary....I did not pay over $12 for my little girl. So far her little comb is dark like her face....I wonder if she will change much as I don't know her exact age.

 

[VA Raptor]

I know soneone interested in Ameraucanas. Not me. Please let me know of you still have any available. Thank you

They are still available. Here is the deal, I am disabled, so I can't really drive more than a few minutes away to meet anyone. I also am not sure which of the four Ameraucanas (all splash) are pullets/roos (I think 2:2).

I do have a blue/black Am roo that I hatched, and am attached to -- BUT he's low in the pecking order, so if he went to a good home I'd deal. Heck, if it's in my signature and isn't the BO or an auto-sexing bird, I'd probably part with it!

The black roo I took in is an Easter Egger...guess I had Ameraucana on the brain with that previous post. Assuming my meds allow me to, Mr. EE may be invited to dinner today to discuss his crowing problem.

I was asking $17 for the 4 splash Ams. Will do a deal on any of the chicks for a good home OR help processing this scrawny EE.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

I got her at a swap in Fishersville......i think she came from down around Amherst. The people selling them were (I think) not the owners but selling for someone else. They were driving à church van if that means anything to you. She has a very pretty turquoisey glimmer and I like her. She will not sleep in the coop. I'm sorry I can't take another rooster. Its just that when I looked up pictures she didn't look like the pictures. Also she did look like maybe a Sumatra. I.really know nothing about them. Will she lay eggs often? Be a good broody? I just wonder about her. She is a free spirit. She is at least three months old maybe more.....I have had her about 2.5 months. Not sure how old she was when I got her. I like her and her name is Ebony. Mostly I call her Ebonezer or Neezie. Her legs are dark and her face is dark sort of a purpley gray. Her comb is very tiny but I think it is a single.

I think she looks like a sweet mix of basically a Phoenix Bantam, but before you take that to the bank check out all the pics on BoggBottomBantams site. Aubrey does have some very dark little girls. Cute as buttons! Clues..Ohiki have nice rounded tails with some long feathers provided the other roos have not pulled them out where as the Phoenix have longer tails. read that long tails. Now a Phoenix and Ohiki making a Phoenix Bantam have tails of a combination more one way to another. The girl Phoenix Bantams look more like shots to me and less bulk on their bodies.
Phoenix Girls have some bulk to their bodies a bit of heft to them when comparing them to the Ohiki girls. Very small frames so when the small ti medium frame meets the slight tiny frame the chances are the little girl will be a shot. The boys will have a little bulk but not like their daddies the Phoenix's bulk. The Phoenix Bantams more fragile than Phoenix bc they are half Ohiki. I mate the Phoenix roos to the Ohiki girls to create the Phoenix Bantams. I first read that in Europe and saw the. In Europe, I think Italy. Maybe Germany. when I was there visiting friends and family but I just can not remember which time and for certain which country, I was there that I read it. I believe it was the trip atleast a decade before I did it here myself

I'm in need of a bit of info, please. I have four Australorp hens and two pullets which for the past week have laid a total of two eggs, both pullet, as I recall. Last fall/winter(my first) I had only four hens and production slowed way down, but this year it's virtually stopped! Any ideas, as to why? Everyone seems to be eating well and they get plenty of calcium... I've also got four game hens, which aren't known as good layers, that are laying 2-3 eggs per day. The BA's should be ashamed...

My girls crossed their legs with the first snow fall back in Octobet and have barely swueezed out an egg since. Ok maybe a couple of eggs each but not many.

Are they getting enough protein? Less light slows them down. Moulting can slow down egg production. Protein is needed to make feathers and eggs Broodiness has messed up laying for a couple of mine. Age can play a part. One of mine did not appear to lose many feathers but has stopped laying....I don't know her age and I am beginning to think she may be older than I thought. If so then she can be the flock grandmother. I think everyone should have a grandmother.

I found raising my own mass productive egg machines to feed the less productive egg machines was best. However production is down early this year.

They are still available. Here is the deal, I am disabled, so I can't really drive more than a few minutes away to meet anyone. I also am not sure which of the four Ameraucanas (all splash) are pullets/roos (I think 2:2).

I do have a blue/black Am roo that I hatched, and am attached to -- BUT he's low in the pecking order, so if he went to a good home I'd deal. Heck, if it's in my signature and isn't the BO or an auto-sexing bird, I'd probably part with it!

The black roo I took in is an Easter Egger...guess I had Ameraucana on the brain with that previous post. Assuming my meds allow me to, Mr. EE may be invited to dinner today to discuss his crowing problem. 

I was asking $17 for the 4 splash Ams. Will do a deal on any of the chicks for a good home OR help processing this scrawny EE.

Colors of the splash? Red and white or black and white? Maybe my ignorance bc my splash Orpingtons are black and white.
4 for 17. Are they laying yet?
How close are you to the Parkway? I am just off the Parkway. I could pick them up for her.