#sebright bantam

[thegoodlittlechickens]

Frog HATES the paparazzi (me) taking photos of her and her wife

[imagine-darksiders]

Bringing this back to celebrate Hennifer's life, nasty little bird, we loved her so.

[evlonarts]

been working on a thing!

[eiders]

Vance!!

[lordkairos3626]

Pardon my absence, life is hard. But, chickens help.

[stardustchicken]

He screm

[never-say-neverwhore]

I just remembered I have free will and can post whatever I want, so here are the misfits as chicken breeds, half based on my personal experiences, and half just on the vibes. (Perhaps I'll do the acolytes and staff later heheh)

Lenore

Plymouth Rock

Morella

Buff Frizzle (bantam breed)

Duke

Silver Laced Polish

Pluto

Black Old English Game Bantam

Berenice

Golden Sebright (Bantam breed)

Eulalie

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte

*(Note: bantam breeds, whether true bantams or bantam versions of regular breeds, are pretty much mini chickens. They're like... Half the size of regular chickens lmao. This includes their eggs, making their eggs perfect for halfing recipes!)

[pennaraptor]

the "Ideal Chicken" according to tumblr user pennaraptor

I have a number of things i'd like to do with regards to breeding chickens. i'm extremely excited and curious to see what i can create from simple crosses between breeds and colors - even if they arent new or exciting and i know what to expect, to see the reality of the gene interactions ive learned about play out in my own birds will delight me. before i knew anything about it at all, hatching out hybrid chicks from my very diverse flock of bantams almost a decade ago was thrilling, baffling, a mystery of colors and patterns i couldn't have predicted. i needed to know more and do more, but i didnt have any idea where to start learning it and i'd reached a point where it wasnt feasible to keep getting more chickens, and my interests changed. but now i'm back, and more than anything what i want to create is a chicken which pleases me aesthetically while not causing undue problems within the flock.

i have several favorite colors and patterns, but these come secondarily and a mix of them is more interesting, since its the genes of color that i most want to experiment with. in terms of my "ideal" birds, i have a list of traits, physical and temperamental. these will be bantams. for the build: slim to slightly more muscled (gamey), tail carriage normal/medium to low, legs medium to long, pea or rose comb (pea preferred), feathers medium to short, beardless and uncrested. in disposition (of importance above all) vigorous, intelligent, bold and outgoing, personable and sweet towards people, with minimal male on male aggression and minimal bullying of other breeds.

my idea of the best looking chickens tend toward a fairly generic, medium to slim built cleanlegged bantam; hatchery stock old english game bantam, rosecombs, and sebrights, and leghorn and hamburg bantams. slightly more exaggerated in type (more muscled and with shorter feathers) are my hatchery cubalaya bantams. they have too long legs and too high tail carriage for cubalayas (i love the long legs and the tail is fine, though i would appreciate lower). i enjoy them immensely but the hens can be aggressive amongst other hens and i have to assume the roosters would fight badly. my 1, Arthur, was unfortunately stupid and rude, both to me and hens. old english games are fantastic on almost every point, except that the roosters will fight each other to the death, which is my major problem - i LOVE game types, but the male on male aggression is awful. i want the attitude and confidence and general look of gamey bantams, without that fighting instinct. and so, that is my prime objective (alongside generally having fun with colors).

i have limited choices buying from a hatchery (i'm going with that rather than finding more specialized breeders, i have my reasons) but i'll try a few breeds and see what i get. i've spent the last few years zeroing in on what matters most to me in a chicken. it allows a fair bit of variation in form and color and so is hopefully achievable. either way, i'll have fun.

[tolkienreader1996]

Notes on the roosters

Henley we think, is a old English game rooster (and a sweetheart)

Piett is a D’uccle rooster (and is kind of shy)

Cluckwell is a silver sebright (and hates getting pictures taken)

Yangus is a Brahma (and the softest one)

[gar-a-ash]

Chicks arrived! Five more Rhode Island Red hens, a Red rooster, and six straight run Golden Sebright bantams that I hope will end up being a 4/2 ratio. I'll admit the Sebrights are just because they're pretty; they're notoriously poor layers and too small for meat. But they also don't eat much and are lively, so I'm looking forward to them in the pen.

Gracie will be going back in with them tonight when I go to shut them away, so she can get some chicken socialization and not whatever it is the turkeys have going on.

[thegoodlittlechickens]

Babushka Frog has beets to sell and she is SO mad at me about it

[imagine-darksiders]

I’ve decided I need to share this bird, she actually managed to jumpscare me, stupid thing hates my guts.

[evlonarts]

So many pretty ladies!

[wanderxdusk]

@dragonskxn continued from here

"Wait! Dun' run gosh darn it!" The woman pleaded to the panicked poultry, all of which paid no mind and scattered about. "I jus' wanna hold one o' ya!" She raced about the barn, jumping to try capturing one frazzled hen and face-planting into hay. Her target easily jumped and scampered down her back, cackling all the way.

"Mmm-guh..." Shikoba groaned but she wasn't going to give up! Several more attempts occurred and failed. Finally the were-beast scooped up on of the sebrights. Her eyes sparkled with delight and she brought the cooing tiny Raptor to her chest.

"Hey big'un." She greeted, running her fingers along laced feathers. She proudly stepped back to the party, cradling the little gaping bantam.

[fissions-chips]

Butler as the poultry show attendee Tim and Jon as the illegally smuggled chickens eating corn off the floor. Put that on ur blog and smoke it

forgive me i'll draw more polished chicken-them someday BUT! the idea was so cute lol

Tim's a Sumantra rooster and Jon's a Sebright bantam (i've had them and can 100% confirm they have Jon energy)

[rothjuje]

I don’t know what happened, but we’re becoming farm people. I just spent 20 minutes comparing different kids of manure.

Yesterday I saw that my favorite farm stand had opened for the season and I squealed and Justin was like why don’t I build you a fenced in garden and you just grow your own? A bit later I was talking about quail for their tiny adorable speckled eggs and getting a rabbit just to use its droppings in the garden and Justin asked “why are you talking about quail and a rabbit? Our next animals are goats.”

So that’s what we’re doing, living out our farm fantasy hahaha. Justin discovered that goats eat poison oak and that people pay big money to rent them out to eat excess vegetation and Justin is sold. I’m not ready for goats, seems like a big responsibility, but apparently sometime soon. And apparently their droppings are more beneficial than rabbit droppings, but so are chickens if you compost them right.

Why am I this way? What happened to me? Instagram? I had chickens in Texas and I loved my girls, but I wasn’t this level of obsessed with them. But now I see all these different breeds and characteristics and egg colors and I have become a chicken hoarder. I had to stop going to my favorite tractor supply because I became friends with the manager and he kept getting me to take his store’s injured birds home. So far we have rehomed 4 aggressive roosters (but kept our sweetheart silkie roo) and have 18 total. Three starlight eggers, three buff orpingtons, three mystic marans, two Easter eggers, two silkies, two booted bantams, a leghorn, a rhode island red, and a silver-laced sebright. We’ll get medium green eggs, light green eggs, maybe some blue if we’re lucky. And lighter brown, medium brown, and dark dark brown from the marans. And smaller cream colored ones from the bantam ladies. And the leghorn will lay the standard white you’re used to from the store, fun fact I hatched fertilized eggs from the store once and leghorns are what hatched!

I saw some reel that said that chickens are the gateway farm animal and ding ding ding. Once you have chickens you start looking up guard animals and then you want a goose. Then you go to a feed store and see that they have turkens (naked neck chickens that are social/sweet and are so ugly they’re cute), turkeys, ducks, and quails. I mean ducks are stinky and messy but I’ll take the rest please, thank you.

My grandma was an animal hoarder, is this genetic? She had an actual aviary and llamas and cats. We had animals growing up but I remember begging forever for a Guinea pig, it’s not like we had a farm. But at one point I was breeding Guinea pigs and fish. And incubating chicken eggs. So maybe it is in my genetics. A 10 year old asking for fish breeding supplies is not on my radar, what kid does that? Maybe this side of me has lied dormant under some depression fog. I don’t know.

Justin being on board is dangerous though. He didn’t even say anything when he came home from his work trip to 6 new chickens living in his office. He wasn’t as pleased about my “pointless” fish though, but I am loving my little aquarium. It’s next to my aerogarden and it’s such a happy little corner.

Anyway.

We need to push back the retaining wall in the backyard. Well *need* might be a little strong. But the wood panels are rotted out and need to be replaced. Right now it’s 2.5 high and the field of poison oak beyond is starting to travel down and I am so severely allergic my arms are constantly covered is weeping wounds. We’re going to push it back til it’s at 4 ft and then build the chicken run, originally it was supposed to be 10 by 8, but now I’m thinking it needs to be 12 by 8 minimum.

We’ve been chipping away at excavating ourselves but with between the kids, the boulders, and my rash reaction it’s just not worth it, we need someone with a machine so we hired someone to come excavate it next week. With the space, our backyard will eventually be dining area w pergola, chicken run/coop, fenced in garden area, swing set and jungle gym for the kids, goat shed/area, then Justin’s big shed that he hopes to break ground on this summer. When we’re done with that we’re going to build steps up to access our side yard, clear and level the clearing, and then put pavers or bricks down for a fire pit area.

I am absolutely obsessed with our property. I want to utilize as much of it as we can, and I never want to take for granted that we are lucky to have land and live somewhere breathtakingly beautiful. Life isn’t perfect by any means, but I still feel like I’m living the dream.