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  1. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    Did you enter the Cutest Baby Fowl contest? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cutest-baby-fowl-photo-contest%E2%80%94win-a-brinsea-maxi-24-ex-connect%E2%80%9416th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-along.1653623/
  2. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    I love Vermont!
  3. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    Well where do you live?
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    Spitzhaubens

    Here is the 3/4 Spitzhauben cockerel hatched in June. (1/4 Sebright). My daughter named him Jack. He still lives w the bantam ee flock that raised him. They've trained him well and so far they get along, he knows his place. We'll see what happens, haven't decided what to do with him, he's...
  5. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    Striking!
  6. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    Love love love seeing all your updates!!!🥰
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    Spitzhaubens

    Update on the 3/4 Spitz chick...at almost 5 weeks, it looks like it's a male. 😖. It definitely has pink in the comb, I would assume a pullet would have no comb or color. The half-Spitz (Sprite) boys had red combs by 3 weeks tho. They were also rowdy and hyper. At least this guy is shy and...
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    Spitzhaubens

    Update on the 3/4 Spitz chick. It is now 2 weeks old, and getting a little crest lump. It can fly up to perches 2' off the ground. I named it Tuffy. I really hope it's a pullet....Mom looks all rumpled because she's in the middle of preening.... Anyway, if a pullet, she can be crossed w...
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    Spitzhaubens

    Well the 3/4 Spitzhauben chick is one week old today. The little flock has embraced it. It's a big kid now...
  10. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    The chick is 4 days old, and mama is taking it outdoors for the whole day. It is so warm here that baby never needs to go under her and they dig and move around all day, eating bugs and who knows what. But they eat feed too. The 2 other members of the flock, mama's siblings, seem totally...
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    Spitzhaubens

    Well we have a new baby chick, 3/4 Spitzhauben and 1/4 Sebright. It was hatched by our bantam EE pullet who could not be deterred from broodiness. I gave her ONE egg. This is Day 20 and I was surprised to see it already! (Mama has wet mash on her beak, and baby has already sampled it.)...
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    Spitzhaubens

    I have 4 bantam EE's almost a year old, and one has been such a stubborn broody that I gave her one egg to hatch. It is one of the Sprite eggs (Spitzhauben-Sebright cross) and thus the chick will be 3/4 Spitzhauben. I am looking forward to seeing what it looks like. All the Sprites look just...
  13. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    omg, look what they have at the local flea mall! 😮 no, i didn’t buy it. The comb’s wrong. And it’s rather large. Besides, I have a real one. 🙃
  14. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    I think Spitzhaubens will do just fine in TX. Mine were fine in all the triple digit temps we’ve had, and they were fine in the polar vortex with negative double digit temps. My originals came from Cackle Hatchery. We live close enuf that we drove there to pick them up. We are on our 3rd...
  15. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    BYC usually has a dress up your chicken for Halloween contest, you’re already prepared…..
  16. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    How old are they? I see red wattles on one of the Chamois…..
  17. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    I love it! I have a Serama question for you—do yours have to live indoors in winter?
  18. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    I’m thinking that with the rising egg prices, it would be a good idea to increase the flock. I’d let one of the broodies in the spring hatch out some chicks. The Sprite girls crossed with the Spitz rooster will have chicks that are 3/4 Spitzhauben. Spritezzhauben‘s. I’m curious how that...
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    Spitzhaubens

    I love it! The Sprites are lovely, super smart, a perfect size, and great layers. But 2 of the 5 hens are compulsive broodies like their Sebright mom. Every month, like clockwork. The Sprite cockerels were crazy and aggressive, I have kept none. Our Sebright Moonshine is 6 yrs old. Her...
  20. SueT

    Spitzhaubens

    Mine don’t lay in the winter, but if yours is a pullet, she’s at point of lay for sure. However, days may be too short and she may wait till spring. Do any of the rest of you Spitz owners get winter eggs?
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