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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Mays on January 16, 2013, 09:34:11 pm
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This handsome fellow (still a young lad btw) is part of my RIR breeding pen, hope you likey! he also has maran and white sussex for sexed chicks :thumbsup:
I also have a breeding pen of L/F Welsummers who lay conker brown eggs, I am looking forward to hatching more of these, they are such pretty hens :love:
the 24 egg incy will be started up soon, and I have one reliable broody hen :fc: lets hope the snow goes soon so we can start getting the runs tidied up :farmer:
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A very hansom chap he is to Mays.
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He is very handsome :love: do you also sell sexlink hatching eggs? ( incubator here from Santa ;D )
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yes indeed mammyshaz!
I can provide a mix of:
Maran x RIR (produces a blackrock type hen)
White Sussex x RIR (produces a standard warren type hen)
Cream Legbar x RIR (produces an olive egg layer hen) I retained a few of these cockerels to maturity last year to see how they turned out, they were Redbbarred, and truly stunning looking bird.
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Thanks for that. I was looking at the end of Feb to start hatching so will keep you in mind for then. We are very new to this as only kept a few hybrids for a couple of years so thinking sexlink would give us a helping hand. I would love to keep a cockerel when I see some of the stunning photos but our contract clearly states No Cockerels :-\ .
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He's lovely. :trophy:
We have a utility line RIR cockerel who is a real gent to his hens and very good around people. He keeps all our smaller cockerels in line without any real aggression. Very calm and docile.
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Hi,a loverly looking Lad
Graham.
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Nice Bird do you have any photos of your welsummer eggs, i have a nice dark brown with a speckle on my welsummers eggs but always keeping an eye out for something of a similar quality
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Mays - do you sell hatching eggs from your pure RIR's? I am actually after a RIR cockerel later this year to breed to my (mostly) copper maran hens next year , so if you breed any this year, can you keep a cockerel?
But I do have an 24 egg incubator too, can hatch myself.
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He is a real stunner! I really wish you were this side of the Channel as I would love to own some RIR's.
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indeed Anke, i can save you a good cockerel & bring him down to you at one of the shows probably, and Mary if I ever get a chance to holiday in France I will bring some with me :)
I'll get some pics of the welly eggs soon :thumbsup:
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But I do have an 24 egg incubator too, can hatch myself.
Very impressive
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But I do have an 24 egg incubator too, can hatch myself.
Very impressive
;D Multi-tasking....
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indeed Anke, i can save you a good cockerel & bring him down to you at one of the shows probably, and Mary if I ever get a chance to holiday in France I will bring some with me :)
I'll get some pics of the welly eggs soon :thumbsup:
I will be up at Forfar end of May, and will try and get to the end of Autumn show too.... Maybe I am getting old, I am not sure if we have met... BT's???
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no I dont think we have met but I am sure we will, I dotn have any kids diw this year so no goat showing for me, but will be at the shows anyway, oogling everyone elses :eyelashes:
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no I dont think we have met but I am sure we will, I dotn have any kids diw this year so no goat showing for me, but will be at the shows anyway, oogling everyone elses :eyelashes:
Good. Looking forward to it.