Thanks everyone.

 

Unsure- I have seen everything from 19-28 weeks w a few outliers. My girl finally started laying around 25 weeks. And she's a champ.
Glad you got everyone straightened back out Dan! [emoji1303]

 

Huh, I don't know. I never paid any attention. But that doesn't mean a lot, the one Silkie I couldn't sex until she laid an egg didn't lay until she was 8 months old.

 

At what age do d'Uccle start to lay eggs?

 

This is a bird where I was wrong when I sexed it. This picture is at 17 weeks of age. When she was three months old her comb was as it is in the picture. Most pullets do not have comb and wattle development until they are close to egg laying age. As such I believed her to be a he; cockerel. Now at 17 weeks she shows no hackle or saddle feathering of a rooster-a pullet. She is a golden neck d'Uccle.

 

This is a bird where I was wrong when I sexed it. This picture is at 17 weeks of age. When she was three months old her comb was as it is in the picture. Most pullets do not have comb and wattle development until they are close to egg laying age. As such I believed her to be a he; cockerel. Now at 17 weeks she shows no hackle or saddle feathering of a rooster-a pullet. She is a golden neck d'Uccle. View attachment 36944

Nice bird!

 

Your turkey was just doing weather vane duty! That's what mine do. They think they're big stuff when they're stomping all over the roof!

 

Every morning the turkeys can be heard stomping. The big thing lately is for the flock to go higher each day in the big pines in our backyard. No turkey eggs yet and no further matings that I've seen (they do seem to wait for an audience) so perhaps the hen has had a change of heart.

 

Thanksgiving Day, we spent at her Mom's and didn't get home until after dark. Driving in we saw the royal palm tom roosting on the tip top of the garage. How do you get a turkey off the roof? Simple, just tell it to come down. And that's what Kimmi did, and RPy came down. If I hadn't been there I would not have believed it. The Peas were wandering around in the dark and I've not the slightest idea why. The ducks had chose to sleep in the wood lot. It was not fun looking in the dark for a bunch of birds that apparently went wild while I was away.

The next day I found my Porcelain d'Uccle cockerel looking near death. Happily, he is looking much better today; crop half full and putting on weight.

It seems that every time I go to the In-Laws there's a mess when I get home. The price for leaving home I guess.

 

The price for leaving home I guess.

They go feral when you're gone!

 

This is Snickerdoodle. By two months she was trained and a well-mannered dog.

 

That is sooo awesome Dan! They’re so cute. Adorably so. Maybe Kimmi can let go of just one more. A pair is still easier to train than a trio!

 

Well that is good news hopefully, three puppies would be hard to train at once!

 

Puppies seem to pick up bed behaviors from each other making it more difficult to reinforce good behaviors. We kept two puppies last time around and they're just now getting to be well-behaved dogs at six months.

 

In the time it took me to post three times there is four more replies about puppies. Kimmi tells me she has talked with thirty-six people already today. I sure wish I got half the response with the birds.

Good Lord, she texted with 12 others last night!

 

Those are some seriously cute puppies!

 

I'd have a tough time letting any of them go too. It's hard to let puppies go to a new home.

They're all just so sweet.

How many puppies in the house now?

 

I'd have a tough time letting any of them go too. It's hard to let puppies go to a new home.

They're all just so sweet.

How many puppies in the house now?

8 Kimmi wants to keep three. As the person who does most of the care and training I'm asking to PPPPLLLLLLEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE just one. An easy matter to train one puppy, but three all the same age; that's harder-way harder.

 

It was a long labor/time before the puppies started to be born; the first came at 7:05 this morning and it took several hours for the last to be born. Kimmi had to help with a couple that were a bit too large.

I put an ad on craigslist last night at 7 PM for Kimmi about her puppies. There has been twenty-six replies as of now. Kimmi is having problems letting the other three go. Just what we need, three more dogs!

 

Thanks for the update Dan!

 

Ah! That's right- I had forgotten you saying you had one golden neck too. Our other roo, the porcelain D'Uccle (TinyRoo,)has a more prominent comb, just like or a little larger than Charlie's. So I'd say it's a good bet on yours being female-I sure hope so. Then I'd have three pullets and that would be nice. I knew she looked lighter somehow, but I am not familiar enough with them to recognize it. (But they are beautiful! I've seen a picture or two of the adults.)There's no telling how he/she will turn out. My Porcelains and the Golden are siblings; a cross between Golden Neck and Porcelain d'Uccle. It would seem that porcelain and golden are both dominant colors; or incomplete dominance.
Charlie looks like he's loving life! [emoji1303][emoji1303][emoji3590]

Ps- and thank you everyone. It's been a long week.

 

Ah! That's right- I had forgotten you saying you had one golden neck too. Our other roo, the porcelain D'Uccle (TinyRoo,)has a more prominent comb, just like or a little larger than Charlie's. So I'd say it's a good bet on yours being female- I knew she looked lighter somehow, but I am not familiar enough with them to recognize it. (But they are beautiful! I've seen a picture or two of the adults.)
Charlie looks like he's loving life! [emoji1303][emoji1303][emoji3590]

Ps- and thank you everyone. It's been a long week.

 

Thanks for the pics everyone!

 

So sorry for your loss OM.

 

Overmountain-sad to read the above.

I think she's going to be beautiful! She should def have a larger comb by now if she was heading that direction, but I think they'll compliment one another beautifully!

She's got more white to her spangles, and Charlie seems to have a little heavier black accenting him- of course they'll change it all up around 20 weeks, but I think they'll make beautiful little babies! She/he is a golden neck d'Uccle.

Thanks for the Charlie pics too! [emoji3059][emoji3059] You are welcome.

I spent the last few hours child-proofing the backyard. Poults are worse than children for getting in trouble. If there is any way to end up over the rainbow they will find it. They are just too curious for their own good and that curiosity often ends in their demise. I always breath a sigh of relief when someone wants to buy them as soon as they hatch.

 

I'm so sorry OM. Having had to do that with mine over the past two years I know the pain everyone is feeling.

 

And, to share a bit of my closure, we lay my favorite girl to rest yesterday. She finally passed yesterday around 4am, I was with her. She will always be missed.

 

I think she's going to be beautiful! She should def have a larger comb by now if she was heading that direction, but I think they'll compliment one another beautifully!

She's got more white to her spangles, and Charlie seems to have a little heavier black accenting him- of course they'll change it all up around 20 weeks, but I think they'll make beautiful little babies!

Thanks for the Charlie pics too! [emoji3059][emoji3059]

 

I'm not sure either but if she is a she, she would certainly make a good partner for Charlie.

That was too many she's in one sentence. I was too lazy to come up with something else.

 

Cockerel?? I thought/think so, but the comb is nowhere near as big as its brother. Should it be a pullet, she will be a good match for Charlie.