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Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 12 7:24 pm Post subject:
I've kept Ixworths and I hesitate to say this but TS's Ixworth isn't very Ixworth like. They have a fair proportion of gamefowl blood in their make up, hence the typical gamefowl heads. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ixworth+chickens&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=JrVXT4H_MIXi8AOZ9tHaDg&sqi=2&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=953&bih=461

Jools

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 1028
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 12 7:40 pm Post subject:
Bodger, would you explain the gamefowl heads comment please? It's the second time I've seen that comment in the last couple of days.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 12 8:21 pm Post subject:
In most breeds of game fowl, both the males and the females have long snakey necks and heads with the minimum of comb development. As an example, here's one of my Oxford gamefowl hens.

Jools

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 1028
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 12 8:28 pm Post subject:
Ah right. Thanks for that. She's a pretty thing.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 12 1:43 pm Post subject:
my blue marans

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Wed May 09, 12 11:00 pm Post subject:

ooh, I like those blues CIG, how dark are their eggs?

Bodger wrote:

I understand that some strains of the large fowl of that breed lay an amazing ruby colured egg.

yes, though these eggs were more a light terracotta. I think the large fowl croads are more likely to lay the pinky ones (though I don't recall where I read that) I hatched 5 out of the 6 eggs, but since then 3 of them have just dropped dead one by one several days apart, no obvious reason or illness....

Anyone got any new chicken pics to share? I will take some of my current growers if it is nice weather tomorrow.

Just loaded up my incys with turkey, maran, legbar and gold appenzeller eggs.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu May 10, 12 12:22 am Post subject:
one of my blue marans eggs

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu May 10, 12 12:25 am Post subject:
and chicks

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Thu May 10, 12 12:52 am Post subject:

colour it green wrote:

one of my blue marans eggs

ooh nice!

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Thu May 10, 12 12:53 am Post subject:

colour it green wrote:

and chicks

awww!

What flavour are the chicks?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu May 10, 12 8:15 am Post subject:
those are blue marans - with a foster mum. statistically i should get 25% splash 25% black and 50% blue. i got 2 splash, 6 black and 7 blue in that hatch.

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Thu May 10, 12 8:52 am Post subject:
I'm liking the blues

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Wed May 30, 12 9:34 am Post subject:

I had a bit of a problem with my last hatch. I had gone up to visit family, came home (on day 18 of the incubation) to find my incy at 38.4 degrees, no idea how long it was like that for, but had been fine when I left 5 days before.

Expecting the worst, I had resigned myself to nothing hatching, but I have about 50% out. Rather pleased with that as 12 of them were bought in and would have been a rather more expensive outcome than just a few of my own girls eggs.

I will take a few pics before I foist them onto one of the many broodies that I also came home to

(locating camera permitting)

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed May 30, 12 10:20 am Post subject:
yay for good outcome Pookie wish i had a broody - i've got some that keep threatening but nothing since the first foster mum had a hatch yesterday 15/16 - giving the last egg a wee bit longer before i turn it off. looks like I shall be hand rearing this lot then.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed May 30, 12 10:40 am Post subject:
I like the term 'hand reared' sounds so much nicer than 'artifically brooded' I think I may use it from now on.

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