Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:47 am

Back when i hatched Gimpy and thought he ( yes 'he') wouldn't make it I put out the call for some chicks... A gal near Richmond offered three chicks which she had hatched in a batch of duck eggs she had gotten from a friend...she didn't want chickens so i picked them up from her...Otis of course managed to do one in so I have two of them still...to my eye they are some sort of leghorn mix..mostly white, lean built and flighty but fine looking birds and I lucked into three (now two) pullets...of course they weren't ready to lay when the RIRs and BSLs started a month and a half ago or so and I was starting to think wth?...anyway, yesterday...TAH DAH!!!

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Happy · Post by **Happy** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:42 am

Congrats!

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:15 pm

Whoo hoo! Do you have any pictures of the ex-freeloading pullets? We haven't had a good game of 'what am I' on here yet I don't think!

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:24 pm

Congratulations!!

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:13 pm

Thx folks..its good to see finally...

WWW..I just got home so i'll get some pics of the flighty girls in the AM...get your opinion..assuming of course that they stand still long enough to get a decent photo

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:24 am

...as promised, Jan...i took about 15 shots before i got this one..

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:12 am

Nice looking bird, is it on a string?

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:33 am

OC...yup...tethered cuz these two fly quite well and are as skittish as the cochin rooster I have..gone in a heartbeat, so I tether them, let them settle down so my hands are free to take a photo...as it was i still had to calm her with my hand close by

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Post by **Killerbunny** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:21 pm

She's very pretty.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:49 pm

TomK wrote:QR_BBPOST OC...yup...tethered cuz these two fly quite well and are as skittish as the cochin rooster I have..gone in a heartbeat, so I tether them, let them settle down so my hands are free to take a photo...as it was i still had to calm her with my hand close by :running-chicken:

Why didn't I think of that, as a photo shoot technique for the on line poultry show ?