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The circle of life.. When I came home from the vet with JC I found three pipped eggs in the incubator (right on time, but I hadn't really paid attention today) and the first one has already hatched two hours after. A little wheaten mottled chick (confirmation hatch from my mille-fleur hen and...

JC didn't make it. Went back to the vet with her today, because no improvement since Friday. We decided to euthanize her. Although she was eating when possible, and on high dosed vitamins, she wasn't able to get up, just creeping around the box on on side with feet trembling. I still hope it was...

The tiny monochromes are celebrating there 14 days. They seem not to grow (but they do) and are still very tiny, compared with the M Fs. I'm not sure the grayish are really blue or will get black completely. If not, it's a very very slate blue...

4 weeks update on the mille-fleurs... the little ones are doing great. I was afraid, what ever JC had caught might spread, but I don't think they have the same conditions, nor that it's contagious. The cockerels have a pleasant youngster-attitude 🤭, and getting wither by the day, the pullets are...

7 week update... here are my two oddly-mottled, the cockerel has some sort of slate instead of black and the pullet too.

I had eggs who traveled 8 days via mail and 50% success, other who traveled 48h-72h and 10% success. All together I had around 25% hatching rate from mail ordered eggs. But I received two batches from the same source where only 2 of 20 eggs were properly fertile. So I think he had a problem with...

There are those happy days...and then are the other days... Went to the vet with JC, thinking having her euthanized, because she was deteriorating. The vet proposed to treat her with Vitamin injections for a couple of days, maybe that will do the trick. Now I have to mount the courage to inject...

Or fatal :lau Initially I was not into "having many chickens"... just 2-3 for the eggs... on the upside, they are easier to keep than my horses ;)

In January I was down to one rooster (the sole survivor since 2021) and 2 hens. You don't find adult Japanese bantams around here, especially in colores not common. So I decided to get fertile eggs from breeders in Germany and France. From 52 eggs finally 9 hatched and are alive. My own couple...

The little cockerels have quite the conquerer posture :D I lost count with the names after the first few who were named and eaten by the fox :idunnoI name those special to me or where I'm sure they stay.

They will be standard conform millefleur, genetically. Yes, it's THE color I wanted first. They will darken a bit and getting a mahogany color with black-whit feathertips I hope. Have to wait 6-8 month before seeing the final color and quality, they will be my reproduction birds.

In between the happy colorful chicks I found my big splash a couple of days ago stumbling and tumbling around. I took her in immediately fearing the worst (Mareks) with a glimpse of hope that it might be a vitamin deficiency instead. She's stumbling and falling over when she's moving too fast...

My last multicolored mottled are 6 weeks now and in top form. I gave away the other not interesting in color and kept these two to see how they turn out. The cockerel is dark blue, not black.

The "kindergarden" has officially breached the frontier to the goat wild open... Little millefleurs exploring outside (or better right in front of the coop)... they are 30 days old and as cute as the first day, I think there are 3 little roo and two pullets.

The millefleurs have moved to the outdoor chicken coop, a bed of hay, a little rabbit hut to huddle under and sommer temperatures invite to sunbathing. I let them discover the coop when the adults are outside, but for the night they are safely apart. Maybe next week they might found the curage...

Monochrome Update - Week 1 The tiny Black&Blues a still very tiny. I read you can easily put 1 week chicks withe the older (4week) chicks...but they are way to small against the armada of active MFs. I keep them apart, but the older ones are going to move into the chicken coop soon, when the...

BL03 is "Big splash"s sister (when my feather sexing talents are right). My favorite little Tiny Bl01, who is minuscule compared with his sibling BL02

Jc aka "Big splash" is getting huge...Definetly not Japanese Bantam genetics...

Millefleur Update WEEK 3 The littles MFs spent some time outside in the grass the last days and are progressing quite good. I'm sure having at least one cockerel. (MF02), to put it nicely, you cannot not see it ;) But either way, one MF rooster for the flock is needed. Number 5 has still a wing...

The black one is really special, originally I didn't wanted black, but even I not for breeding she's too beautiful for not having her. Fortunately I have a lot of space :celebrate