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I have some Javas lined up for spring if I can get away from it.
Javas are wonderful birds...there was just a few articles on them in Mother, go back through the archives.
I just got Rhode Island White eggs and hatched 4 chicks, 1 roo we are sure of so far, and 3 hens, so hopefully we can work on bringing this breed back from the verge also.
I will send a PM to the woman I got my RIWs from, she has Javas I am pretty sure.
Even more rare is white Javas...but blacks are so beautiful.
And how are you going to do all this when you cannot have a rooster ?
Why can't we surgically prevent a rooster from crowing so city folk can keep them ?
A simple altercation with the vocal cords ?
Sounds so mean, but it is possible and within a decent cost amount ?
Have to ask our Tacoma vet about that opinion ?
I know when the general alarm goes up here..a hawk or mysterious shadow under a bush...ALL my birds go off including the Guineas and the din can blow your ear drums out...and poof! Every bird disapears, and not a peep made.
You would never know a single chicken lived here, it is like a ghost town !
But I seriously can admit the girls going off on alarm or the "I am gonna lay an egg " song and a few extra hens always join in on the song singing and that can be just as noisy if not more noisy as a roo crowing.
So far, I have 6, and none crow before 6:30.
It is nice in that he is my alarm clock and gets my butt out of bed.
My neighbors don't seem to mind the "general" noise just the Roo noise at 7am and I have to admit the Roo is loud but then he's very large. If I can get Java's I might make a little noise proof roo apartment! and because I have a rooster already which none of them have seen I might be able to "switch" roos and no one gets grumpy.
If the Java breeder has eggs I'd love to get some!
Btw DIYSeattle is getting some welsummers! gonna be a heritage chicken neighborhood!
I'm hoping for some brabanters.
The guy isn't sure he'll be selling eggs next spring, but I'm really hoping.
