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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: harry on April 01, 2010, 05:05:31 pm

Title: minitures
Post by: harry on April 01, 2010, 05:05:31 pm

i went to an auction wednesday and saw 2 miniture bantams they were about pigeon size fully grown, thought they might make a good pet for a child... how well do they lay, are the eggs bigger than quail eggs. these 2 were white cocks and someone had dyed one pink and one blue they looked good. especialy the pink cock when he crowed.  anyone keep these?

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Post by: doganjo on April 01, 2010, 05:07:04 pm

Somebody has entrepreneurial skills then? ;D ;D ;D

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Post by: herdsman on April 01, 2010, 06:49:16 pm

A work colleague has just started collecting and breeding these. They are no where as hardy as your normal banty and se has had them in a heated shed during the winter. They are very tame and quiet and she seems to be doing well with them. She haatched them from eggs bought on ebay.

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Post by: harry on April 01, 2010, 08:01:36 pm

what are the white ones called

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Post by: chickenfeed on April 01, 2010, 08:23:09 pm

 :chook: i brought 9 minature silkie eggs to set from a auction this week just out of curiosity  ;)

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Post by: juliag on April 01, 2010, 08:38:52 pm

OMG a pink cock, whatever next lol!! We have pekin hens as pets in the garden which lay (when they feel like it, very occasionally if they are in very good moods) small white eggs although larger than quails. They are very pretty little birds which are great roaming around the garden and do not do too much damage in flower beds / lawns etc. However for our eggs we have a mixture of hens to give us a variety of egg colours, legbars, marans, light sussex etc. However if I was going to recommend a pet for the kids it would have to be exbats every time.......... So much friendlier and happy to be picked up and cuddled all day!  :D

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Post by: harry on April 01, 2010, 08:39:03 pm

yup ive seen these on ebay... had to many probs with silkies have alook  http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40028000/jpg/_40028017_easter_6.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/pictures/galleries/newsid_3616000/3616211.stm&usg=__nG-I7LaaKeU1b8rFFvEKAbpeisM=&h=350&w=285&sz=17&hl=en&start=8&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=xdPYXg11L_M-CM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpekin%2Bchickens%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ie%3DUTF-8%26tbs%3Disch:1

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Post by: bamford6 on April 01, 2010, 11:25:26 pm

i have 1 cock and 1 hen gold silki  im selling them at the sale on the 1st may abbadeen mart

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Post by: juliag on April 02, 2010, 03:53:29 pm

Harry that is priceless, sorry had to nick that to post on my Facebook wall!  :D

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Post by: doganjo on April 02, 2010, 04:08:15 pm

How can you inject an egg with dye?  The embryo would die from being opened wouldn't it?