rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

It's EVERYWHERE here!

Not if you get goats, it won't be.

 

[Mini Horses]

I used to have fences covered in it. Now I don't. Goats absolutely love it

Still some growing in hidden areas.

 

[rachels.haven]

I may have secretly reserved 16 more campine pullet chicks. I can still cancel, but I'm not terribly impressed by my feather footed assortment bantams I got so they may be going so I'll need a few (or a lot) more. They are not friendly and look like barnyard mixes-a large percentage of them are white, nonsilkie feathered, and crested with feathered feet, but blue shanks and the other bantams aren't looking terribly recognizable either...and one of my campine females is a gold laced wyandotte cockerel with a red comb and lacing already coming in. The actual campines are active, inquisitive, borderline friendly and smart enough to figure out who fills the feeder already-good vibes off them. I like them. When picked up they don't go bananas but they don't really love it either. With the chicken boom everything female that I don't want will sell, and anything male I don't want I will soup. I may not endorse McMurray anymore though. We lost 8 out of 43 and I wound up with at least one of a random breed I didn't want (asked specifically NOT for the extra "free" chick because they're almost always males so that doesn't explain him) and a bunch of crested mutts, probably silkie crosses. The tiny ones I thought were d'uccles are probably crosses too. I wouldn't be surprised if all the bantams are barnyard mixes.

Although I guess they're healthy? So I should count my blessings.
The campines that are actual campines look the way they're supposed to. There's another blessing. At least something looks like they were breeding to look purebred.

I'd really like to save back a few bantam hens as chick hatchers but IDK what their lineage is though and if they're even amendable to that so I guess we'll see.

 

[rachels.haven]

A white mohawked "bantam" . Just noticed they're not very bantam. It kind of looks and acts like a leghorn or really shoddy white polish got in with something. Houdan rooster grooming himself in the back. He is skittish.

Two more Mohawked chickens.

Young wyandotte rooster sizing up my crock for a go. Probably a fryer.

Campine rooster and some hens with the wyandotte rooster and a random white feather foot bantam and what looks like a cochin in the back.

 

[Baymule]

What a mess. You sure didn’t get what you ordered. You got some mutts. Interesting looking, but still mutts.

 

[rachels.haven]

What a mess. You sure didn’t get what you ordered. You got some mutts. Interesting looking, but still mutts.

So they look like mutts to you too? I was hoping I was just ignorant.

 

[SageHill]

Hopefully they'll grow out right - I'm not good at predicting esp when they are at the dinosaur stage.

 

[farmerjan]

The crested ones could be Houdans, or Sultans, or the "spitzenbaugher" or something like that... I have seen pictures of them...
All these hatcheries seldom keep any or many of the breeds they sell chicks from... Especially the bantams and lesser known breeds. They contract out to breeders and so the quality can be pretty good to just barely recognizeable. There are very few that actually raise the breeds they are selling in any quantity.
The pictures that Murray McMurray hatchery has of many of the breeds do not "show me" anything... They may be the breed they claim, but they are a far cry from being "good birds" for the type I have seen in their pictures.
There are several breeds that have come from Europe... and some have found their way into some of the flocks of people that supply to these hatchery "specials... mixed breeds etc"....There is a breed that has the mohawk but da@#ed if I can remember... it is not recognized in the APA I don't think but could be in the ABA assoc...

 

[fuzzi]

The crested ones could be Houdans, or Sultans, or the "spitzenbaugher" or something like that... I have seen pictures of them...
All these hatcheries seldom keep any or many of the breeds they sell chicks from... Especially the bantams and lesser known breeds. They contract out to breeders and so the quality can be pretty good to just barely recognizeable. There are very few that actually raise the breeds they are selling in any quantity.
The pictures that Murray McMurray hatchery has of many of the breeds do not "show me" anything... They may be the breed they claim, but they are a far cry from being "good birds" for the type I have seen in their pictures.
There are several breeds that have come from Europe... and some have found their way into some of the flocks of people that supply to these hatchery "specials... mixed breeds etc"....There is a breed that has the mohawk but da@#ed if I can remember... it is not recognized in the APA I don't think but could be in the ABA assoc...

There's a guy on BYC who has a Sussex/Crested Legbar (?) cross hen. She has a mohawk, he calls her Mow.

 

[rachels.haven]

I have a lot of Mow's. Funny, the assortment was supposed to be leftovers from the purebreds. Oh well. They'll either stay or not or soup.