Oh, I forgot to say that Rankin is lovely too. My nankins are not that friendly. I can't even pick them up. Did you know there is a Celtic music group from Nova Scotia named The Rankin Family? I love their music, reminds me of home...
I just realized that my silkie cross chicks in the basement don't all have silkie feathering because there were 2 banties in the mix (so said the guy I got the eggs from) so it makes sense that the silkie feathering gene isn't dominant. It's also interesting what that link says about the skin colour being a sex-linked trait.
Take that, Haystack!
OK< OK> So when did the word unique replace, UGLY???ROTFL
Remember Hay, I'm the gal who thinks possums are really cute...
Possums ARE cute. And they have a place in the ecosystem known as Planet Earth.
There are murmurs that at some point, for some reason, Silkies were used in the creation of Serama...but others insist it is just a spontaneous mutation. They are a recognized variant (see Feathersite).
Thanks, Moxon! I hadn't looked up the status of the gene...hopefully his sister is heterozygous and I can get a jump on producing silkie seramas.
Hey, Hay! You do know that I hatched and named Booker, right?.....heh, heh, heh.....
Yes they do, they are what we use to test I E D'sLOLOL
Exactly, summerkid. That's essentially what I said in my blog post about them yesterday!
http://chooksiniowa.blogspot.com/2010/02/unwelcome-guest.html
(complete with cute pictures!)
catsy read that website again, they are not a variant, but rather a vagrant....ROTFLMBO
{{{He is soooo jealous!}}}
PUMPKIN FOR PRESIDENT (in 2016)
Yeah, he does look a little like Obama!!! Doesn't he. Hay
If I ever find a wife for Pumpkin...there will be pie for all! And a chicken in every....uh oh sensitive issue....living room! Ya, that's right...in every living room.
So what's Pumpkin's problem? Is he a little stuck-up? Metrosexual?
I fail to see the similarity....well, maybe a little something about the tilt of the head?
{{{Poor, poor Haystack. He has come unhinged by the beauty of my Serama. We must all be very, very kind and patient until he comes to terms with it}}}
Summerkid...I have the usual plague of roos. Which is to say, erratic temps in the incubator have favoured the infant boy chicks.
So I am trying to generate enough pullets to satisfy the boys...trouble is, the boys just keep coming.....
Can't you just hand over ol' Punkin to someone who would appreciate him? I might know somebody.
PIE!!!
{{{Poor Haystack being unhinged....should we send him some feathers?}}}
{{{In a case like this, I think it is best to just humour the poor man....I mean, his Serama are all really very nice...really quite pleasant....nice...ummm, clean and wholesome...nice...like the girl next door....hee, hee, hee}}}
Pumpkin may someday be available....after I have baked a few tartlets.
Gaaa! What are you saying? That you are going to cook pieces of him & raffle the rest off?
It was meant as a metaphor...not a very good metaphor....but a metaphor nonetheless.
I'm in Chicago right now & flying into PDX tomorrow via Phoenix. Is there an airport in Lodi?
Well there is. They do a lot of sky diving there....not always successfully. You have to navigate the eucalyptus and then clear the highway....
You are coming in on an ultralight, right?
ZZ, are you still up?
That girl keeps jumping time zones....
I could.
I got my b'friend to cut all my hair off (2 feet worth) around 2 a.m. when he got up to go to the bathroom, and I tried horseradish vodka tonight, so what's a virgin ultralight flight after all that?
Plus maybe pick up some eucalyptus cuttings.
Are you sure you are not my crazy cousin, summerkid? Not from the Nut-side...the other side...Grownut would know....
Good heavens, I think she IS your long lost crazy cousin. Oh, Grownut the Genealogist will have to weigh in.
I get it...."tartlets" in the oven....eggs in the nest....yes yes, I am brilliant, I am!
Othernut branch. About 6 generations back. Two second cousins (brother and sister) thrice removed from the main Nut branch married a brother and sister of the acclaimed Harvest-Partay family. Two generations later Other cousins of various removes intermarried, so the lineage became quite convoluted...
Thank you grow. That DOES explain a lot.
{{{But then again, maybe it was just the horseradish vodka compounded with tonsorial shock and errant web-surfing. We'll know which if she dares to raise her newly shorn head again....or sheepishly disappears into the ether}}}
Clever Moxon! But of course, you were an English Major!
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Oh I'm so relieved to hear it - thanks for the explications Grownut. What would we do without your archival talents?
Hey, you California people need to improve your chicken containment methods...(which see)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/29/national/a122702S08.DTL
Their explanation for not catching it is highly suspect....I keep catching my Seramas in a humane trap. I wonder what they are using for bait?
Nope, don't scare so easily. But shortly after posting last night, I figured, "Why wait till 2 this afternoon to fly home when there's a flight at 5:10 a.m.?"
So I zipped up my suitcase & took off into the night for O'Hare. A few extra bucks, two cab rides, a plane change in Phoenix, one train from PDX to Beaverton, a quick nap & then a 90-minute drive to the coast, HERE I AM!
My b'friend was a little shocked to wake up & find his apartment empty, but he's used to my vanishing act.
Summerkid, you just sound like trouble to me...LOL.Haystack
Sigh. Sometimes I FEEL like trouble. Or perhaps like a helium balloon without a string.
I just get antsy sometimes & have to get out of Dodge -- blame my dad for that gene!
Is it accompanied by shortness of breath and a panicky feeling that everything is closing in on you? Cause I have that gene....so it might be hereditary.
Naw, I just love being on the road. Some of my best memories are of hitchhiking in the dark, free to go anywhere in this wide world that a trucker & my own 2 feet could take me.
Let's get back to CHICKENS!!!
If you run into ZZ you can both catch a ride and talk chickens....
When I overcome my camera aversion, I will post pictures of my most incredible standard Blue Cochin chicks....Fuzziest feet I have ever seen.
Oh Catsy.. I love Wilder! You knew I would! Darcy is amazing too! Please keep them!!!
What a treat to see Booker~~~ I love it when he tilts his tail to the side.. I will always love Booker the Looker~
I'm in Wisconsin and it's late..I'm so tired.. but I had to stop by. I love this thread Catsy!~ Keep up the great work. I can't wait to see more baby pics.
Drive by Hugz to all
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Catsy, I'm laughing myself silly all the way to the bank. This is crazy, but a guy from Seattle came out late last night and bought nineteen of my baby seramas for forty bucks a crack. Honestly Cat. I put them on Craigslist and he wanted to exchange for pheasants but I said no and he wanted them for twenty each to buy all and I told him no, that forty was a good price compared to buying on the internet and after a few moments he said ok and he drove here all the way from seattle. I am still in shock and have been up most of the night. One died from being trampled on so I still have four left for myself. I also ended up with three gamehens as one of them also died. He wouldn't tell me why he wanted so many but he must have some buyers as I can't imagine anyone buying that many just to start a breeding program. I sure hope the twenties aren't counterfeit...LOL...Hay
I'm up early and getting my "chicken pic fix" LOL
In the photo above Haystack, that lil black and white chick is my favorite... it's sooo cute!
In Catsy's photo I like the lil black baby.. how cute it is..
I gotta go look at that other thread you were talking about Hay...
thud