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[Chickielady]

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Hey!
A guy at the Pacific Co fair (a few mo ago) had some free pigeons for free.......he wrote his # on a cage card & I posted it here..in August.
Now I cannot find the cage card!

He lives nearbys me.
Has all kinds.
I will keep looking, but maybe do a search of the post, was for 'bald' pigeons.

Quoting my own self here, cannot find the post for the pigeon guy~~~~~~~~~

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Nope, one of the aqua ones! And Quinta out of a stone colored one. Any time you're dealing with multiple color alleles you can have different colors out of the same pairing; I've bred shorthorn cattle for coming up on 45 years and am used to being able to get red, white or roan calves out of a roan/roan pairing, so it doesn't surprise me.

particularly when you are dealing with animals where their lineage or pedigrees is not known !

that's why Illia encouraged me to hatch, or find someone to hatch, a few eggs, to infer what the genetic composition of my rooster might be

we've pretty well ruled out any Dominant White ... but I have yet to see any pictures on the EE threads, of roosters with the same coloration ... a few somewhat similar

would have expected a "twin" somewhere along the line, since Privett hatchery supplies many of the Del's farm stores, as well as selling direct ...

I'm just keeping him away from teenage girls -- his hackle and saddle feathers are the very thing that is all the rage, under the terminology of "feather hair extensions"; teal metallic with gold lacing .... (I guess it's really black but it appears teal in all but very subdued lighting)

Yeah, I'm hoping to keep three or four pullets (I have 21 eggs yet to hatch: one of Sylvia's was bad, and I can't see through your eggshells!) and see if someone wants to raise the cockerels for freezer camp or raise them myself (the problem with that is going to be pen space) but as soon as these are sexable there will/may be pullets to divide up.

My life is getting more interesting, by the way: my cousin is releasing his pheasants three to five animals at a time. I wonder at the wisdom of this project, but I looked up while talking to my brother-in-law today and saw a flock of migratory hawks rising on the thermal over our fields. This made me wonder about the wisdom of a lot of things: I don't usually see the Northern BC Buteos until around Halloween, and was hoping that we'd have a bit more fall before winter sets in.

 

[Chickielady]

OK fun stuff, and I need Illia to look closely~~~
This babies' Mom is a True Blue Ameraucana hen, seen far back behind the dog house:

Daddy is a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana...

here is baby:

Took several pics in different light:

The baby appears to be a dark blue/brown, with a very apparent chocolate brown head.........
So?
What will it look like at maturity
(I love this!)
And here is some more photos:

Our house floor~

Inside~~

Ahhhhhhhh what a great greenhouse THIS could be!

And lastly, for KimH::
Lucy's twin, but this is a full blood Ameraucana, not an OE.

Now I gotta go close coops!

 

[cochinGurl]

lol SO CUTE! i <3 chicks. Nuf sed.

 

[Chickielady]

Well fine, apparently I am the thread killer tonight!
C'ya~~~~~~~

 

[Chickielady]

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I will keep trying!

 

[Chickielady]

FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!
I realised my post in August/Sept was if anyone wanted the birds to PM me.
It did not include his phone so would be of no use.
But I found the cage card he gave me!!!!!!!!!
He was giving away 2 (a pair) Silver Bald-head Tumblers, after he ordered them he had decided he had no room for them.
he has pigeons, so maybe he can help you

 

[hallerlake]

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I will keep trying!

I'm here. I just don't have much to say. I'm trying to figure how to cover my runs for the winter. Mr. Hallerlake thinks my hoop roof idea won't work. He thinks it won't be strong enough.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Well, I had a phone call from a friend in Yelm (the hired hand's mom, in fact) offering to bring her corn shucks, stalks, and cut-corn cobs down tomorrow for the cattle and chickens, went in to check on the chicks because they were making a fuss and found that two could not find the other three, who had taken up residence in a sweater sleeve, settled their social problems, and started dinner.

I'm on a cooking timer right now- every five minutes I go stir something, basically.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I will keep trying!

I'm here. I just don't have much to say. I'm trying to figure how to cover my runs for the winter. Mr. Hallerlake thinks my hoop roof idea won't work. He thinks it won't be strong enough.

I saw some figures about PVC pipe load and shear performance somewhere, but I can't remember where right now. On the net, obviously, unless it was in the Farm Tec catalogue. We've had a 1/2" PVC hoop frame on the greenhouse in the back yard at Margo's for decades; the big thing is you need sufficient slope for snow to slide off- wind shear doesn't seem to be a problem. If he's really worried about it, though, you can always learn how to solder and bend copper water pipe: more expensive and heavier, but prettier and infinitely longer lasting. You'll need to isolate the copper from the (is it aluminum or galvanized. I can't remember) pipe of the kennel frame from the copper or they will corrode like whoa, though.