Everyone is doing great except one of my EE roos, who has been in the house for 9 days now... trying to treat his pneumonia with antibiotics but so far no success.
I hope he gets better soon...
Oh wow that is great news - your boy is (almost) all grown up!
You must be thrilled
Coco Chanel is doing GREAT, she lays about 4 eggs a week and is the most gentle, submissive, sweetest and cutest girl in the coop, we absolutely adore her!
I get my incubator next month so in the spring, I...
yey for sultan roos!!
i have yet to know of anyone who has sultans around here...
Coco has given me 3 beautiful eggs the past 5 days, despite the frigid temperatures - I love her!
I love my little sultan, she is soooo sweet and funny!
She's show quality (red v-comb and ears) and since I don't have a sultan male, I'll get sultan x white silkie crosses next summer, they look awesome!
I feel very lucky to have Coco as an addition to our family
Guess what I found on the coop floor this morning...
Miss Coco Chanel's very first egg in her new home!
It's the white one on the far right of today's crop:
This means she must finally feel at home!
Still waiting to see an egg from Coco Chanel... the breeder said she was 6 months old and already laying, she's been here 11 days now and still no eggs
I heard they were like silkie eggs, small and white... about 80 a year.
Poultry Master, thems some AWESOME sultans! wow!
Gosh are they ever gorgeous!
I have one of those water cannisters in the main coop and the birds still get their wattles wet - I have messy drinkers!
In a month or so my sultan pullet Coco will join the main flock and then hopefully the "wet head" issue will go away...
LOL! Bat-Man is the BEST name ever!
I love it :-)
I don't know about breeding chickens or anything, but would assume whites should be mated with whites?
I don't want any more Sultans as space here is limited and I'm looking for egg-layers (getting some marans soon, and chanteclers, more...
ah ok I hadn't thought about molt... thanks!
her headdress has been soggy for 3 days now, she keeps dunking her entire face in the water - I don't get it!
She looks like an indian chief, LOL!
I felt bad giving her a haircut but it was better than having her head freeze up
PS: Wow is Hector...
I would gladly rehome Coco to someone who had a sultan roo to keep her company, she seems so lonely and out of place here...
Not sure I did the right thing by bringing her home, well OK she was living in a tiny box so her life is definitely better here but still. Hope she eventually gets used...