thas cuz we be odd. LOL
ok i won't mention it any more
i can't get a pic its in the car and last nights storm really had us inside all day
today i have to go check on things
but it is a really nice piece of chicken art . IMHO :)
Updated Pics of Red Rosie
Oh gosh I want all of them. I just bought some chicken things out of a thing my grandson is selling. He is 5 years old and his 1st year in school and they have turned him into an Amway child. Oh well I really like what I am getting.
lol I hear ya there. yea the right word is YET. I am sure he will be soon. And then when he gets into FFA and 4-H oh gosh that is another thing.
Gosh I remember when the girls were in softball, all the candy we sold and ate. I should be as big as a house.
Red Rosie just lays the biggest eggs I have ever seen. Yesterday I weighed her egg. It was 2.8 ounces. Geesh, that's gotta hurt to lay that!
I wonder if that is common with red sex-linked?
My RIR is amazingly consistant in her egg laying and occasionally lays a whopper. And she doesn't go broody!
Kind of scary when they do that. Made me wonder if I should worry or not. Figure as long as they don't blow their egg sack, all is good?
Congrats on the perfect egg layers, ladies!
Cheryl ~ Pea
Did the other Cinnamon Queens you picked up show any correlation to Red Rosie?
Sheila
Not as much as I thought they might. They are nice birds though. They have more white on them than Rosie does, and their debeaking is nowhere near as brutal - just the top part and not near as far back. I think they have been molting and they look a little scraggly but should fill out well. Already had a nice size egg from one of them yesterday. Are they cinnamons? How do you know?! LOL! I am still not sure what they are....but probably not red star if that is what Rosie is. Her feathers have a slight partridge or penciled look to them for some of them. These girls, in contrast, have very solid light brown feathers with more white underneath. No subtle markings like Rosie's feathers. Not sure what that makes them. Rosie's white is mostly under her belly and around her butt end. These girls have white all over under their brown feathers. I need to take a pic of them...
The Cinnamon Queens? Any thoughts on what they might be?
Another pic of the cinnamons to show feathers.
Rosie's feathers for comparison
I don't know what they are either. I have never seen red stars or cinnamon queens. They sure are pretty though.
Sheila
I'm only saying Rosie is a red star because that's what everyone else on here told me and I'm still assuming they are right! LOL!
I don't know if Rosie is a red-star--just that she appears to be a red sex-linked. Different crosses can make a red-sex linked. I think hatcheries just name theirs as propriertary--even if the breeds crossed are the same--they just use their own strains of the breeds. Does that make sense?
I agree with Catscan there, from what I am learning. Just like what we are trying to do with the Americana and the BR. Right?
Bottom line for me is, I don't care what she is. She's my chicken puppy and I love her to bits! And she makes the BEST eggs!
Thanks Taynors! She's my superstar chicken!
these days red star/red sex link has very close colourages to isa browns.
the isa browns can get a get a very dark brown that looks red i will show u a pic of my ones
Very nice Josh! Glad to see you are back from holidays. Nice rooster too. Very handsome.
he isnt looking to good right now he had a fight and is a bit tattered
so do any of yours look like mine??????
they are very nice looking birds.
they are also very tame which is somthing new for me lol
well i have to go i have eggs hatching under a hen
NEW HAMPSHIRE REDS!! : D
my ones or the commanders
Josh - how is your hatch. And yes, my birds do kind of look like yours. I will have to take better pictures in a few weeks when they stop molting.
well one hatched out with the yolk sac so it is in my bator recovering i hope it pulls through it has three other siblings and in the next nesting box its cousins arehatching one is already out with another that hasnt piped yet
Wow! What kinds are they Josh? And where is the picture?
i dont have any pure breeds blocked off except for my silkies so they will be mixes of isa browns blak sex links australorps white sex links or a speckled hen which i think is a maran but not sure LOL
CMoxon.
ahh thought so
Yours also look like New Hampshire Reds.
i was told by some one that they were isa browns maybe they were wrong?????
I just discovered this site and this thread alone makes me glad I joined :)
welcome you are going to have such a great time here and gain a lot oh knowledge i hope u enjoy your time here
Hi Barbian7! Welcome - I hope you will join in some of our other threads - we are all a bunch of crazy chicken lovers here!
Welcome Barbian7! Join in the craziness and stay and sit a spell. There are so many people with so much chicken knowledge here. I have learned more here than by reading 10 chicken care books.
Glad to have you here!
Sheila
Yes welcome you will enjoy this site. Yes to what Shelia said, you will learn from all of these people here. They are just a great bunch of girls and a few guys.