Washingtonians

[Toastyone]

So is there a good site I can go to some where to help me figure out what kind of chicks I have? Someone helped me on here and I think I have 2 that are Delaware but the rest are up in the air. Pretty sure one is a frizzled something because man is it's feathers coming in all kinds of crazy and one is a feather legged something >_>

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Okay--here are pics....of my birds:

Little bantam Orloff roo (RBB)

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

And some of my favorites--a few which ended up winning!

Sheryl's pair of Sebbies

HUGE Dewlap Toulouse:

Pretty Fav hen:

Pretty Crele roo:

 

[SadieSue]

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I think my gf (with an urban flock) and I are considering going mostly as an excuse to get away overnight. AND I forgot to mention to you how adorable I thought your chicken necklaces were. I loved them!

BTW all - my new girls are eating and drinking fine now. It was just my new mother jitters.

 

[SadieSue]

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Really fine looking birds Heather. The Sussex are some of my favorites!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Yes I am surprised they don't have someone checking birds at the door....or a vet on scene to pull ones that are obviously sick.

BTW--I meant to come and find you and ask about making me one of those big signs like the duck one you did...

Well I don't think I was that hard to find. I had all the ladies flocking around, ok so it was only to look at my metal work. I saw you several times but you kind of looked like you may not have been feeling very social so I didn't say much. Yes I can make more signs BUT THAT DESIGN NOW BELONGS TO HI. I will do similar but not the same.

 

[Chickielady]

I have so much to do!
Cleaning 50 pounds of wood shavings, and crates out of my van was just the sart, had to hook up another incubator for 2 seperate lockdowns going on & get Delaware chicks in the brooder...man are they ever big & healthy.
I have never seen chicks pip & be out so fast, within minutes of a pip, they were out & walking around!
Coops need cleaning, feeders need filled, dishes & laundry & vacuuming to do...groceries & what's for dinner...so, on that note, I am back to work & will log on later!
Some pics:

I Love this bird:

I love this bird too:
What I want for meaties:

Here again:

and again:

That is it for now, more later!!!!
I had so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ogress]

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Oh I think those were culls that Royce had for sale?

Yes they were. He was asking $10 a piece for them. The 3 DQ by the door were his too. He told me he was not sure why they were DQ - they sure were gorgeous! I did not notice they were sick, but I did not spend much time looking at them.

Heather - your Sussex are gorgeous! I liked the speckleds too, but that coronation especially is beautiful! I think you must spoil your birds. The ones we got from you follow us around, even after I've scattered the veggies that my hens flock me for.

When we got home, DD put the 2 hens (Sussex from Heather and Marans from zgoatlady - sorry, I forgot your name) in with our other hens

I told her to put them in the new eglu cube in the dog kennel and we'd put her 2 little cochins in the old cuber & run or the little wooden catawba coop. (both the older coops are in another area of the yard that can qet quite muddy). Her little cochins got the new eglu in the dog run which is supposed to be my quarentine coop/greenhouse.

For the most part, the hens are all doing great together, though I had to remove one of my EE's because she decided that the sussex is a challenge for her spot in the middle of the pecking order, and kept trying to corner the poor hen. The marans hen looks so much like my Australorps, that the hens don't seem to notice she's new. I sure hope I don't regret not having them in quartentine! Is it too late to move them? Nobody looks sick.

My SLW have accepted the new sussex into thier clique, one of my BO gives her the stink-eye if she gets too close, but does not attack, and the sussex is smart enough to know to walk away from her. At night, I found the sussex in the coop on the highest nesting bar! That bar only holds 7 hens comfortably, but 10 hens were squished together on it, and the new marans was alone on a lower bar. (I put the EE in the coop at night, and removed her again this morning.) She is in the run attached to the coop with my 14 birds from CGG. The weather has been too cold for me to let them out yet as they range from 5-8 weeks.

The cochins love their new digs. They spent some time exploring their 10'X10' run, and then hopped into the Eglu and have not left since! They first were in the "living room" where they ate and drank, then the roo discovered the large nesting box and called to the hen (his "wife" as Olivia says) "Hey hon, check out the master bedroom

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I don't know if she's going broody, but she has been sitting there all day, and the roo has been at the opposite end of the nest box diving through the wood shavings. yesterday, the hen was trying to take dust baths in the shavings. Olivia is hoping that one day she will go out there and find the eglu filled with little cochins!

My 3 OE from CL are living in the house for now - in the toy-box brooder where they appear to be quite content. They are much quieter than the chicks I got from CGG that are talking and singing constantly!

If I can find my camera, I'll post pictures after bathing my dogs. I took pictures of that huge favorelle roo.

 

[Chickielady]

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I think my gf (with an urban flock) and I are considering going mostly as an excuse to get away overnight. AND I forgot to mention to you how adorable I thought your chicken necklaces were. I loved them!

BTW all - my new girls are eating and drinking fine now. It was just my new mother jitters.

I missed the necklaces !!!
Darn it!
As it was I do not think I sat down for more than 5 minutes the whole time, yet still missed the necklaces!!
I am going to Stevenson, not sure about entries.
Anyone know how the judges will see a curved single toe ?
If they will DQ for a few springs..........

 

[Chickielady]

My 4 mo old Java Cockeral:
JC is his name..

I gotta go back to work...CCG coming today or tomorrow ?