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I am proud to present:

"THE BLUFF COUNTRY CANINES"



The baby Cochins are out!

Finally!  The baby cochins have ventured out into the great outdoors.

I love to see those little, fuzzy feet, hopping around in the grass!

Talk about "Fuzzy Feet"!

OMG.  They are just SO cute!

Have a safe and happy Fourth of July!

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

The last of the Bluff Country Backyard Chickens...

I sold all of my adult chickens but am keeping two, broody hens for my sister.  When I hatched out a clutch of Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs and a bunch of mille fleur/calico eggs recently, I decided to put those broody girls to work!

It's so funny ~ one of the hens takes care of the cochin chicks and one takes care of the BLRW chicks!  They are all in the same pen but only the hen with the BLRW has brought her chicks outside, so far.

I have to admit, it's fun having 'chickens in the backyard' again!

Blue-laced Buff Orpingdotte???

I've been incubating and hatching eggs!

Especially my BLRW eggs.



Just to see what I'd get, I incubated one of the Buff Orpington hen's eggs.  She's in with the Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. 

Well, there you have it...

A Blue Laced Buff Orpingdotte!

You've got to love it!

:-)

I know that I'm cheating my using a previous post for Farm Friend Friday, but I'm so excited about the name  that I made up for a Buff Orpington and Blue-laced-red Wyandotte  cross chick!  I'm like a little kid showing off.  I want everyone to see it!

For lots more chickens, ducks, sheep goats, cows, horses, etc., stop by Verde Farm for Farm Friend Friday!

Don't try this at home...

I may just have to hire my friend, Tammy, to keep the crazy funny videos that she sends me coming!

Thanks for ALL of the smiles, Tammy!

If you just can't get enough about all sorts of animals and/or life on a farm:  hop, run or fly on over to Verde Farm's FARM FRIEND FRIDAY where you'll find links to all sorts of animal blogs.

Have fun!

He's King of the Hill...

I have to admit:  I think this is the most beautiful Blue-Laced-Red
Wyandotte rooster that I have ever seen!

I LOVE the deep, dark blue on this neck feathering and the dark, brick red on his breast feathers.

His conformation is excellent as well!

He positivey takes my breath away!

"Big Blue", as he is affectionately called,

is a very sweet boy.

He is also, now, my only BLRW breeding rooster.

I sold my stunning splash rooster because I have plenty of gorgeous splash hens and don't want too many Splash birds.

As  much as I like the dark blue birds, I think that without the contrast of the striking Splash girls,  the all dark blue would look rather plain.

Blue is friendly with people but really gaurds his territory fiercely from any unwise cochin rooster who happens to venture where he is not welcome...

The girls are all laying like crazy and I'm incubating and selling hatching eggs like crazy!

$30 for a 1/2 dozen $55 for a dozsen...



Yes! I still have chickens...

I know that I've been terrible about keeping this blog up to date!   I'll work on fixing that. 
I promise!

How the heck can they stand like that???

He really does have two legs...

The BLRW are the only chickens venturing outside so far.  The temps are supposed to get into the fifties today so, hopefully, the rest of the snow will melt (we won't even talk about all the MUD that means!) and the Cochins get out into the sunshine as well.

The little guys that were brooding in my living room have made their way out into the garage.  Wouldn't you just know that they both turned out to be boys?   They're so cute!  When ever I go out to the garage, they come running up to me, chirpping away.  They may just move outside this week.  I'll miss them greeting me every morning when I let the dogs out.

I've got the incubator fired up and am going to set some eggs today!

All of my Cochin hens (except one) are setting on eggs now but the BLRW are laying like crazy.  I may even hatch a couple of the Buff Orpington/BLRW cross eggs.  I can tell which ones they are because they're much darker than the pure Wyandotte eggs.  It will be interesting to see what that cross looks like.  I have to admit, my Buff Orps are my best layers!  Although, now that they're finally figured it out, the BLRW are doing a good job as well.  I only have seven females left  ~ some guy from Iowa(?) keeps buying all my best birds!

;-)

So, I'm going to hatch out a bunch more...