New Chick Pics!!

I just came back from feeding and i took some pictures. These are of my chicks and of some request for pen pictures and a chocolate winged Owl pigeon. I got my first mille fleur egg and there will be a pic of that as well as the mille fleurs there will also be some of chickens i didn't have pics of before.
Everything was doing great today except 1 hen shes a water pooper she had just started this i was keeping her water cleaned daily but was out most of the day one day last week and she pooped and drank it. Put up a wire cover so she couldn't get on top of the water but i found her sickly 2 days ago. I waited to see if she would improve sometimes they just get a little tummy trouble but today shes the same. So i got out the Amprol and treated the water and she will be fine in a few days. Newbie's i treated her for coccidiosis a intestinal problem caused by eating poo or drinking poo water i treated her with amprolium trade name Corrid i put it in her drinking water. The symptoms are loose watery poo and sometimes with blood in severe cases... The chicken will sit with feathers ruffled and acts cold and is very lathargic they may or may not eat but will still drink. cocidia are protozoa not a virus or disease and are impossible to control. If you need more info just ask. Let the pictures begin!!

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Oh how I love those little blue chicks. They are just so cute! I want some!!

Self blue beautys.

All nice and warm!!! {sorry my downloads are a little slow}

My first Mille Fleur Egg

One of these girls laid the egg....... {the splash isn't old enough to lay}

Blue Mille Fleur Roo

Sorry Claire that first pic was from the other day *duh* HERES the pic that was supposed to be there!

Blue Mille Fleur Hen

Awwww....feedin' time! Mum is sure teaching those little fluffers how to eat! Good deal - such a cute family pic! What does Dad look like?

Crelle roo please pardon his shabby looks hes molting

Beautiful family Harmony!

MollyD

Heres Daddy hes in a another pen with his other hen

He's a very good looking fella!

MollyD

Both are very handsome roos! Although blue roo seems a little bit loose with his affections...already knocking up another hen, and his children barely out of the egg. What a guy! ;-)

Here he is The Chocalate Wing Owl Pigeon

I NEED CHOCOLATE!

New Color!!! COCO wing baby owl

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Lemon Blue Splash Rooster I'm keepin this one

crelle pullet

Grey wing Owl

White Indian fantail

OK Harmony, this confirms it, you are the ULTIMATE enabler. Now I seem to need both chocolate and grey wing owl pigeons, some self blue bantams, a lemon blue splash anything, and more! I insist that you cease and desist from making me lose my mind from figuring out how many more coops I need to build!

Rosey Dove My personal favorite

Not a Chance Clair i haven't even showed you my pens yet hang on!!

Pied Tangerine Dove

Almost Forgot the blue splash cochin

And my Final Bird pic a mottled cochin Next i will show you a couple of my pens.

This is one of the larger pens and it has a roost but no nest box. I'm going to design and build about 10 That won't be quite this big and will have both roost and nest box and these will be my breeder pens.
Up until spring 07 i had been ordering chicks and raiseing them but i just was putting to much expense into them and i wasn't happy with the quality of the birds so i started last spring gettin good friends with show people and people with good stock and today i have some of the best of the best stock. So as my breeder flock is growing we must build BUILD I SAY

This is one of my original pens i built about 5 years ago it's too small and i had to add the nest box. When i get the larger breeder pens built I'm going to turn all this size into brooder pens for my setting hens.

This is a temporary pen it's just some fence wire formed to a cirle and held together with zip ties and its moveble like a tracter just pick it up and move it and thats and old army tarp i found in the trash. It's holding i think 10 fantails The CF blessed me with... actually i traded a brown wing pair {chocolate claire}of owls for some beige wing and the man insisted i take all these free of charge {pigeons for sale LOL}

You have yet to post a picture of your tangerine elephant...

Finally this is HOLDING its a 16 foot rabbit cage on legs i have 4 others like it and the individual cell pens are about the size of one of the all wire rabbit cages you know the pop up kind.
My chicks stayin the large brooder pen it's on another thread but if you want i can put it here.
Then i have 3 pens that are 10 feet long and divided into two 5 foot pens here is where i hold my young birds then they are eventualy separated into pairs or trios in the HOLD pens and sold.
These long rabbit cages are great if you have fighters or ones that have to be by themselves you have a quick pen availible at all times. That is if you aren't compulsive and fill them up too.
In the background of this pic you can see one of my rabbit hutches.

My Angel Trumpets

IT"S COMEING DON"T YOU KNOW IT"S HARD TO GET SOMETHING THAT BIG TO FIT A CAMERA LENS!!!!

Yes, yes. Stunning birds, well thought out breeding pens and beautiful fragrant flowers. More than anything I can ever hope to achieve.

But what about the tangerine elephant?:0)

Okay here it is and his family just moved in with him boy CF should have Mercy.

Nope--not tangerine. At least on my monitor.

Well i hated to admit it but he left me thought i could cover it up with this picture but when i thru him out of the bed this morning he got real mad and just busted thru the front door. Haven't seen him since guess i'm just not a tangerine elephant kind of person :(

The tangerines are notoriously temperamental. I, for one, do not think ill of you. You should know we will all be here for you--tangerine temperaments or mauve. We've all been there.

And you have birds we covet.