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[TAJ]

This is just an update on the three Wernlas girls I got in early April - looking at their combs they still have some growing to do - they are either 19 weeks, or 22 weeks (I was unsure if they were 11 or 14 weeks when I got them. They go out freeranging with the big girls, but they are certainly not acting as one group as yet.

 

My cream legbar is a good flyer, despite wing clipping - good 'hair-do'

 

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Right-to-left = Barnvelder, cream legbar, Silver-Grey Dorking

 

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Cream Legbar & Silver-Grey Dorking (with a muddy beak!)

 

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Barnvelder & Cream Legbar

 

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii49/TAJchicks/IMG_2361.jpg

 

(I wish Photobucket wouldn't crash everytime I try to re-size photos!

 

Tracy

[Space Chick]

Beautiful girls!

 

I'm getting my Wernlas girls in a few weeks, I can't wait!

[Seagazer]

Your girls look lovely - I'm

[TAJ]

Remember we were trying to make Dorkings the next 'must have' - the oldest British breed of chicken and numbers need a boost as they are now considered rare. And do not forget they have 5 toes - one of only two breeds of chickens to have that many.

 

Tracy

[meezers]

I got my dorking and cream legbar from Wernlas as well , I got them end of April and was told the legbar was 16wks and the dorking 17 wks , so if yours were from the same 'batch' they would have been nearer 14 wks ( but I thought mine looked younger than than what I was told ) my legbar has a darker hairdo than yours, and your dorking has whiter feathers than mine. They are gorgeous aren't they ?, mine are so friendly - though the dorking started off timid, what are yours like ?

[meezers]

Remember we were trying to make Dorkings the next 'must have' - the oldest British breed of chicken and numbers need a boost as they are now considered rare. And do not forget they have 5 toes - one of only two breeds of chickens to have that many.

 

Tracy

 

I've got 3 chooks with 5 toes my faverolle, the silkie and the dorking - I had to point out to my 'non chickeny' friend that 5 toes is unusual, not the norm