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Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:47 am
by TomK
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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Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:42 am
by Happy
Congrats!
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:15 pm
by windwalkingwolf
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!
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:24 pm
by kenya
Congratulations!!
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:13 pm
by TomK
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
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:24 am
by TomK
...as promised, Jan...i took about 15 shots before i got this one..
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:12 am
by Ontario Chick
Nice looking bird, is it on a string?
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:33 am
by TomK
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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Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:21 pm
by Killerbunny
She's very pretty.
Finally..no more freeloaders (I hope)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:49 pm
by Ontario Chick
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
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Why didn't I think of that, as a photo shoot technique for the on line poultry show ?
