Good Morning! in 2018
- Jaye
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Re: Good Morning!
LOL, @Happy , your lab sounds a lot like our Aiden.
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- ross
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Re: Good Morning!
Checked out my bird book & think it was a immature bald headed eagle basically all brown a little lighter under wings .we have 2 nests not far away . It was massive if a hawk .
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Re: Good Morning!
I can't believe I have a broody chicken. I always wondered if a hen that has never even met a rooster would go broody, but I guess I have my answer. Either that or Miranda is sick and has chosen the favoured nest box as a comforting spot to sleep it off. What should I look for? She didn't complain much when I fished out two amazingly warm eggs yesterday, but she spent the night on the nest. She does seem to like to nap on the nest from time to time.
My Polish chicks are still insisting on roosting in the tree, so every night I am still going out and hauling them one by one from the tree and placing them on the roosts in the coop. I di as suggested and actually put a branch from that same tree to put in the coop as a roost, and there is enough light with both the pop door and the cleanout door open. Maybe I need to tie their crests into ponytails so they see better. Any other ideas? Silly chickens.
My Polish chicks are still insisting on roosting in the tree, so every night I am still going out and hauling them one by one from the tree and placing them on the roosts in the coop. I di as suggested and actually put a branch from that same tree to put in the coop as a roost, and there is enough light with both the pop door and the cleanout door open. Maybe I need to tie their crests into ponytails so they see better. Any other ideas? Silly chickens.
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- WLLady
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Re: Good Morning!
@windwalkingwolf
how about this boy-a sport from the leghorns...flighty as all get out...but very pretty lol
how about this boy-a sport from the leghorns...flighty as all get out...but very pretty lol
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
- WLLady
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Re: Good Morning!
believe it or not he is out of 2 duckwing looking parents....light brown leghorns....lol. me thinks my leghorns are hiding something and are definitely not pure....
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
- windwalkingwolf
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Re: Good Morning!
I have a theory. magic. One of your ameraucana boys is SO virile and fertile, that he can fertilize with a thought. Your Leghorn girls just have to see him and think "ooh, what a handsome boy", and BAM, their eggs carry his genes.WLLady wrote: ↑Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:50 amokay folks.....the oddballs from my light brown leghorn breedings. it's the white birds in the photos. in one of the photos there's a white bird on the perch and a "normal" light brown leghorn pullet of the same age from the same hatch right behind her.....
boy1.jpgboy 2.jpgboy 3.jpgboy 4.jpggirl 1.jpggirl 2.jpggirl 3.jpgparents and one daughter.jpg
okay, some of the photos are rotated...argh.
anyways, everything from single combs, to muffs and beards with pea comb, to blue and splash and there are light brown leghorns in there too. the one photo (the last one) is all the light brown leghorn parents (the brown ones) and look good. that boy is the only boy i have-and he has nice beetle green sheen in the tail and does not look blue in any way shape or form. neither do any of the girls. that white bird in the middle is one of their kids.
definitely some sort of leghorn body shape. leg colour is all over the map, everything from blue to yellow to orange to almost slate, but no black or real slate. no feathered legs (thank goodness!).
the muffed and bearded boy is really striking....
and yes, this is the same group of people that packed up my ceramic eggs, but all these guys were hatched before i even went on holidays, so no one had looked after them but me and my hubby for almost a year. we didn't manage to get away for christmas....so. and i've been hatching these sports since march this year.
this one has me stumped....someone is Ewh because these chicks are solid wheaten pattern with a few black dots (very few), and i could see that not being able to be seen in adults...but i got the adults as hatching eggs and hatched them and there wasn't a single yellow chick in the bunch, they were all stripy chipmunks and Ewh is dominant to e+.
there are 3 hens and 1 rooster. all 3 hens are laying wonderfully. i am getting between 35 and 50% sports. i get 2-3 eggs a day from the 3 moms....so....i do think it's more than 1 mom throwing these...which would mean that both mom and dad are carrying *whatever*. anyways, i should put this over in the genetics topic for more in depth conversation. in fact i will....sometime!
That blue and red fellow, is his breast laced or mottled at all?
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- WLLady
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Re: Good Morning!
spangled with prominent shaft
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars