(Moxon quickly opens pic to see if Catscan is being facetious, but fortunately, Moxon actually had clean nails today!)
Difficult indeed. Seriously, it's like a dove grey mixed with a buff. Not a dark grey, more like a self blue type of tone. I will check again tomorrow, by which time the second and possibly third cheese should have emerged. I will try to take a picture in natural light and see what we think. By then, we should be finished with the TWT routine and be fully fluffed.
Meet Jackpot
I am still thinking pullet. Full fluffy status will help. As will comparison with compatriot cheeses.
I'm thinking pullet also.. there seems to be no yellow.. the yellow really shows up pretty good too.. The roos are also a lighter brown.. that chick is pretty dark!
I still say.. wut wut wut
Also.. the roos are slow feathering.. you will know positive in a couple of days.. full wing feathers, pullet.. nubs= roo
Grey/tan breast, fast feathering, darker heads with prominent "V"= Barnevelder pullet.
ZZ and I spend waaaaay to much time studying this.
I'm studying a Barnevelder/EE cross.. miracle baby and a living doll.. Barnevelder pullet color with muffs!
My lil Boo Boo got some wax worms today.. :)
Yeeeessss.....I begin to see the problem here. OCBD (obsessive compulsive barnevelder disorder). Two serious cases. An intervention may be necessary...
We already have an evil Nemesis--but I am not allowed to speak of him here.
Did anyone see the movie "They Might be Giants"? (not the musical group). George C Scott as a delusional Sherlock Holmes and Joanne Woodward as his unwilling psychiatric counselor, Dr. Watson?
It would help illustrate the problem if you had.
Well, no further cheeses escaped during the night, however, a further cheese module now has a hole, so that makes 3 swiss cheeses and 2 gruyere, but I can hear things occurring inside the gruyeres, so I think they are making an attempt at becoming a swiss cheese.
Daylight pictures of first cheese. I am going with pullet.
Head markings somewhat indistinct....
front view
Wut wut wut toot toot boo boo wut wut...
I blame her radical Californian breeding for her refusal to declare a gender--but I agree, I think she is a pullet. Congratulations! And best wishes for your aging cheese.
Ah hah! Of course! I never thought of that! She/He is a Californian after all!
All this reading and there's no Mozzarella?!
Oh my, I just caught up from when I went to bed!! I was biting my nails and reading with great anticipation! (making me wait) Jay LOL Its a girl!! I have totally learned soooo much about this breed. It is so cool to know by color when they are born if its a boy or girl! Are there a lot of breeds like that? Congrats on the cheese! Awaiting news on other slices! :D
Awww, lil toot tooot baby.. I love that face.. Congrats Commander.. I do hope the others escape!
Hesh is perfectly clear on what gender hesh is, it's only our crippling need to assign gender roles that is causing confusion and mental disarray. =0) WE need to update our data files and get more flexible in our outlook on the roles a chicken can take on. If we were more secure in our own identity, we would not be in such a rush or need to know who the other was so we would know how to relate to hesh.
LOL
(Hesh is a bi-gender or maybe beyond gender? term from one of Marge Piercy's books... I think)
Jay
I am hereby perfectly flexible as to my chicken's gender role. I would just like it to inform me of whether it will lay an egg or not.
LOL... snort.
It refuses to be labeled...
Ooops... hesh refuses to be labeled.
=0)
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I can hear several of them outside informing me they are indeed laying an egg.
LMBO!
The cheeses are not emerging yet. I was thinking they were lazy, and then I remembered, of COURSE they are, they're Californians! They just wanna hang ten on the beach....
Wait a minute.. I can also hear some of them informing me they will NOT be laying an egg. LOL
They are just lazy and unemployed.. You might have to kick them out. LOL
JUST KIDDING
Tee hee hee! Nobody gets fed around here if they don't put in a good day's work!! LOL!!
Cheeze from Arizona????
I shouldn't make fun of the people unemployed.. at least not the ones that are unemployed due to no fault of their own... These are bad times for folks.. That was not directed in any direction at all..
No.. it was California Cheeze from happy California chickens
LOL
spelling police spelling police spelling police
ohhh I thought there was a happy chicken making cheeze in Arizona.... LOL I am hiding back under the coop again so the spelling police dont get me
I need to go to work.. can you tell I'm avoiding it?
I love Cheeze.. I think that's cool and I have been known to spell it cheez many times.. I'm partial to Zs LOL
I am at work on DG... LOLOL can you tell it is friday?
The spelling police throw their hands up in despair and wander away....
Where's a new pic of Jackpot?
Such a fraught... frought... frot... life you leave... er, live, C.
=0)
Claire! My daughter just called.. she is in Iowa!! Here is a pic of what she's driving!
She just got a puppy.. and she says it's driving her nutz.. I told her she could drop it off at your house and pick me up some chickens..LOL
Edited to add..
She is on Hwy 80 about 12 miles away from the Urbandale Exit
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Oh gosholly... you could sure fit a mess o'chickens in that! And baby lambsies and kids and crias and duckley-wuckleys...
And llamas, and goats, and geese, and... Is she coming through NY? LOL
Those Californian chicks sure take their sweet time. hump!! Will check back in awhile. ;)
A cria is a baby llama... I think. Or is it a baby alpaca? It's a baby something, I know. And I'll bet C has one or one on the way. LOL
Ohhhhh, I see, I thought you were making up animals! hehehe Like a heffalumph... :0
She's probably got one of those too. Would a baby heffalumph be a halfalet?
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