Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Redwing]

This is my first year breedng birds for showing

 

These are all cockerels - I am hopeful that one will be a winner like their dad!

 

 

[quickcluck]

Well tasha, they certainly look fine to me!

[Plum]

They look wonderful Tasha. Best of luck with them

[joza2210]

Lovely Tasha

[sparkysmum]

Look gorgeous to me

[beach chick]

wow, what breed are they? they look like the kind of clothes newsreaders are told not to wear, the kind of check that makes the picture go funny!!

[Redwing]

They are barred Wyandotte bantams

[Egluntyne]

Beautiful. They look as if they are a Formation Dancing Team.

[Chicken Shirl]

Splendid fellows Tasha. How long will you keep them together like that.

[thenewchick]

Fab! They look like winners to me!!

[CallyChook]

what gorgeous gents

[Lavenders_Blue]

Very handsome indeed!

[Lewis]

Little bachelor group!

 

Looking good ... hopefully seeing a few winners soon

[ClaireG]

Oooh babies of Tarzan They look fantastic Tasha. Hope there's a winner or three amoungst them

[Old Speckled Hen]

Very Very handsome. I love that colouring. So distinctive. Best of luck with them

My Vorwerk comes from show stock and the guy who I bought him from looked really crestfallen when I said he was going to be a pet. Not that he looks anything special after my boss hen pulled some of his tail feathers out. I wish he'd grow up.

Does anybody know when a cockerel does grow up?

[CallyChook]

Does anybody know when a cockerel does grow up?

 

Biting my tongue there to make references between cockerels and human males...

 

My welsummer cockerel emerged from his pubescent state at about 32 weeks and took over the pecking order within a week after being bottom of it before then. The ladies didn't know what came over him!!

[Old Speckled Hen]

Does anybody know when a cockerel does grow up?

 

Biting my tongue there to make references between cockerels and human males...

 

My welsummer cockerel emerged from his pubescent state at about 32 weeks and took over the pecking order within a week after being bottom of it before then. The ladies didn't know what came over him!!

 

Oh music to my ears

My top fat hen needs some comeuppance. She has been sooooooooo awful. Just one look and the new three run away,

at the moment I have two mini flocks.

Edited to say that today I spotted two little bumps on his legs .........spurs-to-be

[Redwing]

Splendid fellows Tasha. How long will you keep them together like that.

 

They will stay like that and my two existing adult cockerels will join them for the winter indoors - as long as no female is in sight they will be happy as a group and wont fight

 

Wyandottes take ages to mature - Tarzan who is the dad to this lot really only properly filled out at about ten months old!

[the bradley bunch]

oh what lovely looking chaps

good luck with the show! tarzan will be so proud of his boys

[Daphne]

They look stunning with that fabulous barring Good luck; I presume its the 2 big shows you're going to. Everything crossed!

[Valkyrie]

Yep, good luck with the shows Redders. They are indeed beautiful birdies.

[chick wiggle]

Gorgeous boys Tash, im sure they're future prize winners