Anyone else have CHICKENS?!?!?!?!?

Peafowl (see, there's an elegant workaround) are lovely. A friend of mine is breeding pied. They don't half screech though!

For anybody wanting to see some of the gorgeous breeds being discussed here (and others too) there is a great hatchery catalog here:
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/

I like the Mille Fleurs myself, but the silver-laced Wyandottes are fabulous too.

I like mypetchicken.com myself :D

AW! I had some when I lived on the farm!!! I had a Buff, an Production Red (My fav), a Bard-rock for looks, 2 Aracanna (sp)?, and a Banham (sp) Rooster that thought he was King Kong...

Buffy and Henny Penny the Red **I was a kid** :rolleyes:
Would lay the biggest BEST eggs in one of our stalls every day...
The others would just lay where they felt like it. But the eggs were off the chart good!

Henny Penny had a ton of personality... I could call her if I saw a wood roach or something, and she'd come running as fast as she could... sooooooooo funny!

Glad your loveing your Chickens Kara :) Now I miss mine.... :oops:

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

I like the Mille Fleurs myself, but the silver-laced Wyandottes are fabulous too.

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Mille fleur is like the pattern of most Belgian D'uccles, right? Are there mille fleur Wyandottes you mean?

Yup-o!! We have
1 white "meat type" rooster
1 Rhode Island Red rooster
1 banty hen that we rescued from the abandoned house of rooster-fighters (she was never used; was probably a future breeder. We thought she was a he.. but she's a she..)

We are actually going to get a few hens tomorrow from our friend. She said "take whatever you want." She has silkies; Rhodes; more..
I will post pics in a few. I want to get some more hens, as the banty really hasn't left any eggers around, and I want eggs.. I don't eat eggs, but my hubby does.. and I will cook with them (like cake-baking, Shake n' bake, etc.) and eat them that way. I just don't like eggs as-is.. I can stomach venison heart, but not poacked omelettes!

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Mille fleur is like the pattern of most Belgian D'uccles, right? Are there mille fleur Wyandottes you mean?

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Oooo....Apparently so. I hadn't heard of Belgians, but it looks like Mille Fleur is the name they are known by in the US. Thanks, that gives me more pretty things to look at. :-)

Here are some pics of our brood in the past few months
Whiteboy and Red Man
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...ontfight-1.jpg

And Chipotle. Any guesses on her breed? I was told that the fighting strains that she comes from, are almost a breed within themselves. Poor things; I could never torture an animal like that. She's definately a bantam!

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...tyrooset-1.jpg

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

Oooo....Apparently so. I hadn't heard of Belgians, but it looks like Mille Fleur is the name they are known by in the US. Thanks, that gives me more pretty things to look at. :-)

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Ah.. yeah I'm a banty fan, I like looking up all those funny little chicken breeds. If you want a fun chicken site to look at (well not just chickens, all poultry) check out feathersite:

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html

I'm glad to hear I've got some fellow chicken lovers among my snake brethren and sistren. (yes I know that's not really a word)

Before we lost our minds over Ball Pythons, we had around 150 chickens. Obviously we had lost our minds over chickens, huh?

Now that we have the snakes and rodents to take care of, we have a few for fresh eggs and just because we like to have them around.

Here's a website you might enjoy. It has a lot of pictures of the different breeds. It also has other types of fowl. Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html