Good Morning! <=2017

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:53 am

Brrr i turned into a wuss!!! Its snowing.
Lost one of my gold welbar boys yesterday! Argh!!! The eggs are fertilized so i am collecting madly now sigh....i do have another boy so not a major worry but still. He was a sweetheart. Good to the girls and friendly too.
He was in good condition no mites no sneezing...i presume heart....oh well.

Not much going on today. Still trying to finish up some soap...starting to think i messed it up somehow or my crockpot isnt hot enough....hm....

So looks like i will be setting in a couple weeks....yay!!
Stay warm everyone! Welcome back to winter (march in like a lion i think)...means spring isnt far behind-hope my daffoils and tulips will be okay. They were all up quite high.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:48 pm

SO a cousin that I haven't hard from for years an last saw 30 yrs ago contacted me and sent her Email. Sent her a reply and told her about the turkeys. Anyway, seems she keeps Lincolnshire Buff Chickens. I guess it's genetic in my family then????

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:16 pm

Beautiful! I can see why she choose to breed these birds. they were very popular over 100 years ago but then went extinct. they were recreated in the early 80's. they are a table bird but I wonder how well they lay. heres some more info...

https://poultrykeeper.com/chicken-breed ... -chickens/

I do think keeping poultry its genetic KB, both sets of my grandparents kept poultry and rabbits n such, unfortunately before I was born. but my one Grandfather would take me to the sarnia animal farm a couple times a month to check out all the different birds and animals they have there. this is where my fascination started.

the sarnia animal farm is a little free animal farm with all kinds of cool animals there. I would go there by myself sometimes after I moved to sarnia and always took my kids there aswell. even though we now live on an animal farm if we have time to kill and are in sarnia we will spend some time there and always give them a donation.

man I can ramble n change dirctions pretty fast eh. LOL.

Post by **poultry_admin** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:31 pm

Do those hens have spurs, too? Or am I seeing this wrong?

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:45 pm

it sure looks like it dosent it!

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:20 pm

Looking at other pictures...I think some have a fifth toe, like a Dorking. Very cool birds.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:36 pm

I swear I've seen spurs on one of my hens before so I did some googling to see what I can find. apparently its not unusual for a Mediterranean breed to develop spurs on an older hen over 3 years of age. so some Mediterranean breeds like Leghorn, Minorca, Ancona, ect... and the Polish ( a Continental, European breed) can grow spurs. I think the spurs I seen on one of my hens was the Polish I had. somewhere I may have pics but thats going back 3 years so hmmmm. Coonhound ended up with those birds and I ended up with the light brown leghorns.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:57 am

They were developed using the Dorking and have a fifth toe.

Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:28 am

I had a welsummer hen with spurs....

Post by **poultry_admin** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:43 am

Must be similar to turkey hens growing a beard then. I have seen the knob on our hens and some got a bit bigger bump than others when they get older, but I didn't see one that size yet.
Cool. Learned something today. Thanks!