A Few Shots from Today as I was Feeding

[JimW]

Here are a couple pics I took as I was feeding today...

A couple Ayam cemani... These birds were developed in Indoneisan but so far are doing find in their unheated pen, one roo has a bit of frost bite on comb, but is doing perfectly fine.

One of my 2016 Mottled Houdan pullets in my "Pullet Pen". Currently have 2 houdan pullets and 1 cockeral, ordered a few more chicks from Performance Poultry for this Spring.

A bunch of my other pullets in the Pullet Pen... Bielefelders, Cream Legbars, BC Marans, Malines... There are 2 Malines cockerals in there too, they will be coming out in the next week or so. Then I will leave the girls to themselves for February and then start setting up breeding pens in March/

My 1 Malines cockeral and 2 Malines pullets have yellow legs :sad: , standard calls for flesh coloured legs. I drove over an hour and a half to pick up the birds only to find out when I got there they had yellow legs, bought them anyways. I have 1 cockeral and 2 pullets that meet the standard, plus picking up another malines rooster and 3 hens this weekend that meet the standard, so that will be good. Also picking up a couple more Bielefelder hens and some more Cream Legbar hens.

Some of my Beltsville Small White turkeys... from poults from Cirrus Hill Farm, both BSW bloodlines Albertson-Donnelly and Tibbot-Ames. plus a couple birds from the 2 lines crossed.

Last year I had a pair of Artisan Gold turkeys as well, that I wanted to breed to see what they produced, since they are not a pure breed, my tom was aggressive so I ended up separating him, but my hen was kept with my BSW tom. I hatched 1 egg that I am pretty sure if a cross between the BSW and the AG.

Here is the poult back in June.

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Here is the cross-bred turkey today. I have not seen him display yet to get a good look at his pattern, hopefully soon.

Not sure if I will breed him or not, I only have Beltsvilles to breed this year, but might put him with 1 BSW hen and hatch a couple poults.

Thanks for looking.

JimW

[ross]

Lookin good man---:-)

[Home Grown Poultry]

Very nice birds Jim, all of them!!! that cross turkey looks really cool eh! I would put him with a bsw and the gold hen for sure! and keep goin... of course... if you want another poultry project

[Skinny rooster]

Do you know the person who is selling the black chickens on kijiji? I think it's Hovart or something like that.

[WLLady]

Sr they are svart honas.....all the rage down here in my area. I just cant get used to them!!!

[Killerbunny]

Very nice Jim!

[Flat Rock Farm]

Beautiful birds Jim Really like the Houdan's :wink:

[JimW]

QR_BBPOST Do you know the person who is selling the black chickens on kijiji? I think it's Hovart or something like that.

Yes I know the person, I have bought and sold birds with her several times, very nice person. She is selling Svart honas, Swedish Black chickens, that she got from a breeder in Newfoundland.

I have Svart honas as well from the same breeder, plus I have the Indonesian Black chickens, Ayam cemani in the pctures. I will hopefully be selling both black chicken breeds come Spring, mine are not laying yet as I do not provide artificial lighting or heat, I like to condition my birds to Canadian weather as much as possible. If you are interested in black chickens let me know, I will give best price around. :)

JimW

[JimW]

QR_BBPOST Very nice birds Jim, all of them!!! that cross turkey looks really cool eh! I would put him with a bsw and the gold hen for sure! and keep goin... of course... if you want another poultry project

Ya I will definitely put him the a BSW hen, I got rid of my golds so might see if I can find another breed to put with him as well. I have some Sweetgrass turkey hatching eggs coming in the spring, so next year thinking he would go well with a sweet grass hen.

[KimChick]

Your Mottled Houdan pullet has a really funky "hairdo"! Very cool!