Call Pair For Sale

Nutmeg pair for sale. They are both 2010 hatch.

Trout Indian Runners

New Additions to 2011 season

New Snowy Mallards from OH.

Well we can't yet say that we are ready for 2011 to start, but we are slowly getting our breeding pens in order and ready for a new breeding season. Here are our plans (written in pencil for the time being.)

Welsh Harlequins: 3 Drakes 9 Ducks (both silver phase and gold phase all in one pen.)

Indian Runners: 1 Drake 2 Ducks (all trout)

Snowy Mallard: 4 Drakes 4 Ducks (four breeding pens)

Nankins: 2 Cocks 4 Hens (two breeding pens of rose and single combs)

Ameraucana: 1 Cock 4 Hens (one breeding pen all blacks)

Call Ducks: not really sure what we are doing with these, maybe not hatching anything from them, still don't know.

I am pretty sure the New Hampshires, color project, and maybe a couple other birds here and there are for sale...e-mail if interested.

Project Cockerel, Nankins, New Hampshires & Call Ducks

Chocolate Project Cockerel: Turning out to be quite a beautiful bird but unless I find something to use him with, this is pretty much the end of the project.

Nankins out in the daypens. They don't stay in these without us being home, but they give the chickens some much need access to green our well...brown grass and dirt and bugs, without any worry of the males fighting or anything getting them.

New Hampshire Bantam Hen

New Hampshire Bantam Male

Same male...again.

Blue Magpie Drake and Black Magpie Duck

Our two year old son had a pair of black Modern Game bantams that disappeared, (not sure if it was a wandering dog or 'coon.) Anyway, he loves birds so we wanted to replace them before he noticed and through a huge fit about it. Anyway...I still don't think he's noticed the bantams are missing, but he is in love with these two little Call ducks. Hopefully we can hatch some next Spring. They are such cute ducklings!!! These are far from top show quality, but nice ducks for a two year old.

Show season

Upcoming Show: Oct. 16th - Central Indiana Poultry Breeders Assoc. (Lebanon, IN) We sent off our show entry form for the CIPBA show, and wouldn't you guess most of the birds are molting and looking less than the best. We are taking mostly waterfowl with the exception of the Ameraucana male and so sale birds. We are also taking some rabbits for sale. There are six Dutch rabbits out there that we need to sell. We didn't need them to begin with but we are helping out a friend of ours that developed an allergy to rabbits after a bout with pnemonia. They are nice rabbits but she is allergic to them, so we are disposing of them for her. In the meantime, I did take some more pictures of our Snowy Mallards.

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