The growing out waiting game...

We have several really nice looking babies growing out in what were breeding pens. Most of the adult birds have been moved to "community" pens and now we are waiting, culling and anticitpating the show season. Our first show of the Fall season will be the White River Poultry Association show in Spencer, IN. We won't have anything for sale, but if you are interested, I may have a couple of Welsh Harlequin drake-lings to spare, and I have my chocolate cross project hen for sale. (She didn't turn out as I had expected so she doesn't need to stay around, she's carrying chocolate, but I won't be able to use her.) Also looking for a few misc. birds...but most of them I think are found, just need to get them here. Fall is just around the corner! Can't wait for some cooler weather!

Nankin Male #59

Chocolate breeding project

These are the product of a chocolate Old English Game hen and a Rose combed Nankin Rooster

(Note: the pullet has a rose comb and the cockerel has a single, which means the rooster is split for both in comb genetics otherwise they would have both been rose combs.)

This was a breeding project to see how chocolate reacts within these patterns. My ultimate goal is to create something similar in pattern to a Nankin, but where they have black in the tails, I want these to have chocolate. They are very cool looking!

21 New Welsh Harlequin Ducklings

Unfortunatly we don't have any babies to show off yet. We are working on it though, we have handful of Snowy Mallard and Nankin eggs in an incubator. We have a borrowed-broody bantam hen, that we have half a dozen Nankin eggs under and are collecting Welsh Harlequin, Saxony, Snowy Mallard and of course Nankin eggs to set as soon as we turn on the large GQF incubator. We also order 20 Welsh Harlequin ducklings from Holderreads' Preservation Farm. Hopefully we will be able to "more quickly" rebuild our duck flock after the fox attacks last season.

Happy Hatching Everyone!!! Hopefully some nice young birds will soon be filling our brooders, but until then...we are continuing to collect eggs to hatch. We will not have any hatching eggs available this year. We may have young adult birds around the end of August or middle of September.

Nankin Bantams (The Guys)

These aren't the best pictures, it was later than I thought, and the flash from the camera really messed up the color, but its a general idea of what they look like. I will attempt to get some pictures of them running around on the green grass...they are much prettier against the green.

this is hopefully the replacement for the original cock. (blue legband)

(He choked and died...not kidding, found him after I fed one evening.) :(

tall, dark, and gangly...

rosecomb hen, chocolate oeg hen, original rosecomb cock, single comb hen

head shot of blue legband cock.

Nankin Bantams

new hen #1

original rosecomb hen with metal legband from Indy Nationals back in '07