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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Bodger on October 05, 2013, 06:17:07 am

Title: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Bodger on October 05, 2013, 06:17:07 am

Here are pictures of most of the birds that I've bred this year.
 
 
I managed seven Light Sussex pullets.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/017.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/017.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/015.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/015.jpg.html)
 

And about the same number of cockerels that come with the bonus that the rejects are tasting lovely.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/039.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/039.jpg.html)
 

I hatched six chicks from a full tray of Welsummer eggs that I bought on our trip to Hereford. I think that the quality of the birds that I got from them has made up for the lack of quantity.

Two cocks.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/011.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/011.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/010.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/010.jpg.html)
 

and four smashing pullets.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/021.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/021.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/018.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/018.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/012.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/012.jpg.html)
 
 
I don't know if you remember, but at the beginning of the summer, a guy who was giving up on poultry gave me four Anconas and since then, I've become mightily impressed with the breed. They're cracking little layers of brilliant white eggs.
 
At this time of the year, I let them out at around 4.00pm most afternoons and here they are at liberty this afternoon.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/023-1.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/023-1.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/024.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/024.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/025.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/025.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/027-1.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/027-1.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/029.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/029.jpg.html)
 

I think I love you.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/030.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/030.jpg.html)
 

Well if you're going to be like that, well you can suit yourself.
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/031.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/031.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Mammyshaz on October 05, 2013, 06:59:51 am

What a lovely, healthy lot of chooks.  :love:

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Q on October 05, 2013, 08:03:22 am

love the pics - Those are very fine looking birds to me. 
I particularly like the light sussex.
Mine look nothing like that condition.

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Victorian Farmer on October 05, 2013, 08:58:01 am

Well whot a harvist the stock looks very good the Sussex look very good are they a utilatey line .I bet you are pleased with them at carlile there were 2 light Sussex that dident win first prize that should and cheap price .

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Bodger on October 05, 2013, 09:05:39 am

The LS are very much a utility line.
The first ones that I kept were very good layers and then I improved them in the looks department when I got some eggs from a friend in Cambridgeshire. She told me the other day that her parents got their original stock a long time ago from Chatsworth House.

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Bodger on November 18, 2013, 02:38:10 pm

My new Ancona cockerel male has just been delivered. His full brother was awarded best Ancona at The National Show yesterday. I've been lucky to get him and he looks pretty good to me, considering that he's just spent almost two days in a cardboard box..
Karens decided to call him Hank, so here he is, Hank the Ancona.  :chook:
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/007.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/007.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/005-1.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/005-1.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/002.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/002.jpg.html)
 

(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb334/kcooper2011/poultry/001-1.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kcooper2011/media/poultry/001-1.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: lord flynn on November 18, 2013, 04:16:06 pm

ooh, he does look nice-really like the look of the Ancona-and the Minorcas. Feel that if I do get another breed it will have to be bantams though.

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Kitchen Cottage on November 18, 2013, 04:18:58 pm

My light sussex emily is always bathing in dust and is therefore a very light grey.  These are absolutely beautiful!!

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: Louise Gaunt on November 18, 2013, 04:51:18 pm

A very fine collection of hens. I do like Light Sussex,, but your new Ancona is a very handsome chap!

Title: Re: Some of my chickens. ( Lots of pictures )
Post by: kelly58 on November 18, 2013, 05:22:38 pm

What beautiful chucks ! A credit to you  :thumbsup: