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[pennyJo1960]

Found this online. It's from the Leghorn Breeder's Club of Australia. It does specify the weight for bantams.
http://leghornbreeders.webs.com/leghornstandards.htm

Bantam cocks should top out at about at 2.4 pounds. Standard sized rooster is about 7.5 pounds.
They aren't just smaller than average Leghorns. They are much, much smaller.

Serema are a true bantam. Good ones have a very distinct posture and shape. And they are tiny, even compared to most bantam breeds. Day old chicks are sometimes the size of a thumb nail. Adults usually don't even weigh a full pound.

totally unrelated both from my hatch are cockerels even the blue
so I will let them grow up and freezer camp for both

 

[Hinotori]

I looked over my cockerels again. The ones I banded before are still looking to be the best ones. I wish the color was darker on the best looking one. He looks washed out. He's got the best wings I've seen on a silkie here as well. only Ashes rivals him on looks

 

[Hinotori]

Usually it doesn't pond this much out in the field until the end of November. It's early this year. It will get bigger by spring then vanish rather quickly. Normally it's only there about 4 months.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Usually it doesn't pond this much out in the field until the end of November. It's early this year. It will get bigger by spring then vanish rather quickly. Normally it's only there about 4 months.

..@Hinotori nice pond while you have it very picturesque

 

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[Duck Drover]

Pics please. I may need a new Easter Egger hen.

I did not take the cockerels to the auction this morning since I am sick and needed the rest more. I am working tonight and tomorrow night after working last night so I just need to survive the weekend. I will try to take pictures of the cockerels and pullets this week before we clip wings on the pullets. I will probably sell the pullets soon after they are laying so I can see the egg color and adult plumage but for now they supposedly don't count in my numbers with the code change because they are not mature yet. The boys should have gone to auction earlier but I wanted to see how they would turn out in comparison to their Quechua father and they have not started crowing yet.

With sex links the daughters look like the father and the sons look like the mother, right? If that is the case these red cockerels are from my red Easter Egger and the multi-colored cockerel is from my silver hen. I should do another test hatch with just the eggs from one hen to see if there is a pattern. It seems only the pullets have the blue feather tips that I really like so that may be from the Quechua rooster.

I don't know if down color was an indicator at hatching so I will have to track it in another hatch. I was mainly just wanting to see if I would get the characteristics I like best with the cross in order to bring the Easter Eggers back closer to the original in the 1980's when I started raising them. These are actually nicer than I had expected but I am not sure what is in my silver Easter Egger so she may be a bit of a wild card. I got her from a breeder that "guaranteed" colored eggs but most of the pullets I got from him (bought as chicks) were beige egg layers so they were definately mutts.

I only kept the silver hen because she broke her middle toe and I had it taped when I sold the rest of the chicks I raised but she was one of two from that batch that actually layed a colored egg. My red hen is from a hatchery so I kept her and another favorite hen but my favorite hen tipped a plastic nest box over on herself and suffocated. I had thought about selling these last two Easter Egger hens together but then I decided to keep them and try to hatch my own Easter Eggers that would definately lay a blue or aqua egg. The project has been slow to start, though, due to my ankle injury and surgery taking up a full year of my life.

I had only wanted to keep the Quechua rooster a short time but now that he is grandfathered due to the code change I may hold onto him longer if he produces what I want with the two Easter Egger Hens I have left. I would love to see what I get if I were to breed his daughters back to him but they hatched after the code change so technically I can't keep them unless I can move somewhere more poultry friendly. I think they would end up more Quechua than I want if I bred them back to him anyway.

The multicolored cockerel will probably make the best rooster to breed back to the hens but I would have to separate them from the Quechua for a month before he could take over and that would leave him with Orpington hens to breed instead. I don't know if I could keep him long once he starts crowing but he really is handsome so I don't want him to get eaten like the rest of the boys. My daughter refuses to eat anything she raises or I would butcher the boys myself. I suppose I could just eat them myself too if I did that. I love chicken so it is foolish to sell chickens for meat and then buy chicken to eat.

We are actually considering selling all the LF chickens and just keeping the Silkies and ducks but we fought so hard to protect our property rights that I hate to give up now. We have a really beautiful flock since we get to keep our best birds when we hatch and raise them. My daughter will be going off to college in less than 2 years, though, so I don't want to end up taking care of her birds for her when she is not here to enjoy them. Our area is growing too big now so we don't want to stay here after she finishes high school anyway. If we can time our move with her leaving I would take the birds and keep them for her while she is in college. I enjoy hatching and raising babies but I don't want to be a bird breeder full time. I did not even do any hatching myself this year.

 

[Leigti]

I am not interested in breeding chickens but it is interesting listening to everybody else and the adventures they have. I always thought that all Easter Egger chickens laid blue or green eggs. Till I bought three of them and only one leas a green egg, one laser pink egg and one leas a brown egg.
Right now, I have 9chickens that are old enough to lay and three that should be starting any time. but I'm only getting three eggs a day. Two of the chickens are molting so I know I won't get anything from them for a while but shouldn't I be getting more eggs than I'm getting now? I am not providing artificial light so I know I'll get fewer eggs but this seems a little skimpy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am not interested in breeding chickens but it is interesting listening to everybody else and the adventures they have. I always thought that all Easter Egger chickens laid blue or green eggs. Till I bought three of them and only one leas a green egg, one laser pink egg and one leas a brown egg.
Right now, I have 9chickens that are old enough to lay and three that should be starting any time. but I'm only getting three eggs a day. Two of the chickens are molting so I know I won't get anything from them for a while but shouldn't I be getting more eggs than I'm getting now? I am not providing artificial light so I know I'll get fewer eggs but this seems a little skimpy.

you could possibly have more with light in the coop how long have you had the ee? if you do
not have light depending on their age they may stop till spring

 

[Hinotori]

LMAO!