lol Reminds me of how many people out there don't realize it requires a certain breed to even be a suspicious person.
My digital scale I believe goes to 40 lbs, maybe it's 20, but yea when I got it I just had to weigh everyone. Didn't get to that point but weighed most of the more important birds. Man was it an eye-opener. A couple of my more hopefuls were much lighter than I thought. And thankfully my entire Araucana flock is perfect in weight.
Didn't get to weigh any Shamos though, as I got the scale after my last pair went and even now, my new arrivals are still too shy for me to bother. Yesterday I was hauling around lumber, passing their coop and through their run on a consistent basis and out of the blue they freak, and try all their best to avoid me in the most frightened manner, wouldn't let me within 30 feet of them, don't know what got into them. . . They calmed after about half an hour though and resorted to the normal "5 feet and we're good" rule.
Our relationship is building very, very slowly. The pullets let me near them if they know I'm doing something important (refill their water, refill or check their feeder) but otherwise they're the more skittish ones, the stag is also pretty shy but not as bad. Today I went on ahead and tried picking him up. When I did, it just as usual pleased me to feel how much of a solid brick he was. I'm quite used to the rest of my breeds which are more "fluffy" type and narrow out in the rear, while this guy literally is like a brick with long legs - Sharp cut edges, dense, wide both in front and back. I can't wait to see how big he'll mature to be.
Hey Ish, check out that tail. Nice and low so far.
My digital scale I believe goes to 40 lbs, maybe it's 20, but yea when I got it I just had to weigh everyone. Didn't get to that point but weighed most of the more important birds. Man was it an eye-opener. A couple of my more hopefuls were much lighter than I thought. And thankfully my entire Araucana flock is perfect in weight.
Didn't get to weigh any Shamos though, as I got the scale after my last pair went and even now, my new arrivals are still too shy for me to bother. Yesterday I was hauling around lumber, passing their coop and through their run on a consistent basis and out of the blue they freak, and try all their best to avoid me in the most frightened manner, wouldn't let me within 30 feet of them, don't know what got into them. . . They calmed after about half an hour though and resorted to the normal "5 feet and we're good" rule.
Our relationship is building very, very slowly. The pullets let me near them if they know I'm doing something important (refill their water, refill or check their feeder) but otherwise they're the more skittish ones, the stag is also pretty shy but not as bad. Today I went on ahead and tried picking him up. When I did, it just as usual pleased me to feel how much of a solid brick he was. I'm quite used to the rest of my breeds which are more "fluffy" type and narrow out in the rear, while this guy literally is like a brick with long legs - Sharp cut edges, dense, wide both in front and back. I can't wait to see how big he'll mature to be.
Hey Ish, check out that tail. Nice and low so far.
I took 17 birds: 4 bantam asil & 13 bantam shamo. They were the only bantam orientals in the show. I had to scratch 3 of the birds I would have taken. 2 for feather condition & 1 up and vanished from my yard. I hope to have more of a balanced entry for the fall shows. Quite a few folk took a gander at them, and I tried to answer any questions as best I could to garner intrest in them. Some folk have never seen these birds and did not know they existed.
