feemcg Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Some pics of the girls that I've hatched this year and kept Freya the Welbar (23 weeks) just after she laid her first egg today. Wendy the Cream Legbar (23 weeks) Evie the Speckled Sussex (23 weeks) Sandy the Buff Orpington and Ness the Silver laced Wyandotte (19 weeks) KT the Wheaten Maran (12 weeks) Lulu the Silver Wheaten Maran (12 weeks) Eddi and Annie the Buff Sussex (12 weeks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Oh they are all darlings especially Freya, Wendy, Ness & KT. Freya is my favourite, but I also like KT's fluffy pants! Very cute & very well done to you! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Oh I've fallen in love with Evie and Sandy They all look delightful Fee - lucky you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 They are gorgeous Fee, thank you for sharing them! That's given me my chicken fix for today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 They are lovely photos karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 They are beauties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 All beautiful Evie is my favourite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 The picture of Sandy & Ness makes me giggle! It looks like Sandy, with her beak in the air, is thinking 'Did you ask my permission to take a photo!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted August 11, 2007 Author Share Posted August 11, 2007 Thanks everyone, I do love them all but Sandy and Ness are so funny. If they can't see each other they get all worried and start making little noises. Also when looking at the pic remember Ness is the 'normal' sized chicken - Sandy is huge and follows me around at heel like a wee dog . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Freya made me smile- I noticed the straw she had put on her back while she was laying her egg! I love the silver laced wyandotte, Ness- are your hens bantams? I would love one of those! Just wishing now that although I love my girls very much that I had done a bit more research into bantams & got some of those instead i thought that their eggs would be tiny, but now I know it is just the white which is less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 The more i look at the photo of Sandy & Ness it reminds me of two posh old dears! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted August 11, 2007 Author Share Posted August 11, 2007 All large fowl Jules (and Sandy is a mammoth fowl ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Lovely ladies!!! Could i take Ness home please???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladylucan Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Wow, they are all so beautiful, you must be sooooo proud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 what fab pictures, they are all so lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa33 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Very very gorgeous!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 I love the pictures. I thought I relly wanted a wheaten maran. Now I want a silver wheaten maran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted August 11, 2007 Author Share Posted August 11, 2007 Thanks, the Marans' colours are coming through lovely, I can't wait to see what they'll be like when they're older. I hadn't been too sure about them as I can't really 'do' feathered legs and feet (it kinda gives me the creeps ) but the breeder explained it was only light feathering on the legs (as you can see in KT's pic) so I'm really pleased now I hatched them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Fantastic - thanks very much indeed for sharing the piccies. They are just superb. I've got a couple of splashed Orpingtons and a maran and two buff sussex. they are all about 11 weeks. The Orpingtons are thugs! The Buff Sussex seem to be life's victims and seem to accept being bullied. The Maran seems very well balenced and is neither a bully nor a victim - she carries on her own sweet way and manages to ignore all the others. Do you have a similar pecking order, or are things different with your girls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xChicken04x Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Wow lovley piccies! You must be so proud of them all, very pretty chooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJuff Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Edie and Annie are so beautiful! I want more and more hens . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Fantastic - thanks very much indeed for sharing the piccies. They are just superb. I've got a couple of splashed Orpingtons and a maran and two buff sussex. they are all about 11 weeks. The Orpingtons are thugs! The Buff Sussex seem to be life's victims and seem to accept being bullied. The Maran seems very well balenced and is neither a bully nor a victim - she carries on her own sweet way and manages to ignore all the others. Do you have a similar pecking order, or are things different with your girls? Interesting, I'd quite to know too. I though Orpingtons (Buff?) were quite docile. My Welsummer is a definate victim, and RIR a neurotic feather tugger/loadmouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted August 11, 2007 Author Share Posted August 11, 2007 Thanks again for all your replies . Big Sandy (makes her sound like a ned!) follows me around and seems very curious - she pecks at my shoes, any buttons or threads on trousers - not in a nasty way though, and is still a bit insecure as she gets the odd nasty peck, and I have to lift her into the cube if I want her to sleep there (she will NOT go in the eglu- goes rigid and squawks!). Ness, although the same age, is like her baby and tries to sleep underneath her!. They're 19 weeks now and I can't imagine where Sandy will lay - where will she go? I love Sandy to bits but don't think I'd hatch Orps again - she just doesn't seem to 'fit in' with the rest (thank goodness Ness is her best pal!) The wee Marans and Sussex are kind of all the same natured just now - still come running to me and stay round my feet, but getting a bit more adventurous when I'm not there..this was my most enjoyable hatch - all popped out easily, lovely natured (not noisy or jumpy) and easy to sex. Will definitely do another hatch of these breeds next year. (don't mention Welsummers, never again - notice I never kept any of them!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I love the wheatens. KT is soooo cute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Dare I ask, what the problem with Welsummers was? *ducks out of way* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
