White Faced Black Spanish

[anderson8505]

Josh44 is that a bantam or standard? Very nice either way, I just prefer the large birds.

ah... someday someone will come through with a box of hatching eggs for me

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Another WFBS thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7868055#p7868055

Oops-- missed the "LF" thanks Josh

 

[josh44]

She's large fowl WFB Spanish

 

[HENRI]

Hi thats a great hen , beutiful type, .
cheers

 

[Mic's Chicks]

I am in the Ft Worth, TX area. If Anyone around here has any large fowl WFBS eggs or birds for sale I would be very interested!

Micki

 

[ZenHens]

I finally found some large fowl WFBS in central Florida. On a croc farm, of all places. Interesting place. Being of soft heart, I took the two pullets that were probably least robust. One was almost bald from an aggressive cockerel in the same coop, I think. I think they're probably about four weeks old. Very skittish, probably from lack of handling, but I've heard they're a bit flighty anyway. But they have such sweet little faces and have an interesting look/build when compared to my BRs and Delawares.

The guy who had them has some very beautiful roosters and hens, but getting back to his property is not for the faint of heart, especially if the crocs have just been fed.

 

[varanisblack]

Well with luck Mary will finally have the last breed on her list and get a trio of these thanks to ZensHens,
Now what to do with all the birthday birds we got extra Bantom Cochins and some Amerucanas "or Easter Eggers not sure which yet"

The rains here have hurt my finances so I was not going to get any more birds but the girls both braught chicks for Marys birthday and said they could not find the Spanish, Now we know where they are so it looks like I will be getting the 1st bird Mary really wanted, the one to spark her chicken interest "the one that keeps me building coops and runs LOL" The White Face Black Spanish

Thank you soo much ZensHens for finding a breeder around us you have made Marys birthday a happy one if we can get her trio to start her projects with. With luck over the next months we can find some other blood lines to out cross and make a hardy and strong line to keep these guys going!

Thank You Scott and Mary ras

 

[ChickenExtreme]

Awesome and Beautiful Birds

 

[varanisblack]

Well they are here, not impressed with the crowded conditions they came from but the breeders are quite impressive.
The younger birds are a little rough being in cramped quarters but with some loving care should turn out stunning!
We were going to get younger birds but they had some "teenagers" where the roos and hens were quite evident so we decided to get three of them. the price mysteriously rose and we were almost ready to leave when they offered us the trio for $5 less and then threw in an extra roo, We went planning on spending $4 a bird was told the larger ones were $8 and about the time we picked out the three it went to $30 for three! hmm it has been a long time since I was in school but shouldn't 8 X 3 = 24??
I think they realised we were about to leave "and that we could count" when they offered the 4 for $25

One reason we did not leave was the adults they came from were quite an impressive stately group!
Mary will be looking in the spring for some "new blood so to speak" to add to the genetic diversity and to strengthen their desirable traits and remove any faults with these ones.

We will get pics later, the roos were picked a bit and have some extensive bald patches where the hens are fully feathered just a little rough looking, " I belive there was a large roo of a breed i could not identify in with them that was dominant.

Any way they are aclimating to having only 4 birds in a 10'X16' run vs 15 birds in 3'x 18" cage

knowing they are flyers they also have multiple roosts at varieing levels to see the world from above if they like while getting used to the neighboring bantoms, ducks and laying hens

 

[varanisblack]

OK a couple of quick pics,
They are quite flighty and stressed from the sudden new space and semifreedom, so I snapped pics from outside the pen when they decided to let me and come out where I could see them.
Both the roos were being picked on by the unknown big roo in with them so with luck and loving care they will feather out again and look better soon.

Here is one of the girls

And the other, she is the shyest and 1st to hide when we walk up, none have had human socialisation so we hope to get them at least used to us enough to not run and hide all the time.
Finaly as I was about to go in I got a group shot of them.
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[ChickenExtreme]

Could you tell me if these are LF or bantams? They're suppose to be Standard size. Those are my 10 week old + GLW girls with them.