4-Hgirl --- Me and my animals

[4-Hgirl]

Today I am starting my first day of school Since I homeschool I start school after State Fair

 

[4-Hgirl]

Here are some better pics of my new cochin that I just took of him in his new coop

 

[Baymule]

Home schooled kids often times have a better education than public school kids do.

A 17 year old home schooled boy started selling vegetable seeds. He married a home schooled girl. You might have heard of them. Now they employ their families. They travel the world looking for heritage seeds.

www.rareseeds.com

 

[4-Hgirl]

Today I got a standard sized purebred barred plymouth rock cockerel!!!!
he was born on easter. I don't have any pics right now

 

[farmerjan]

Can I ask why you keep getting roosters??? Why not find a breed you really like, get a pair or 2, raise some of your own up, and show them. I get wanting to have some different ones, and finding some you really like, I have gone through alot of breeds over the years... but I always raised up some of my own and learned the ins and outs of the breed and color pattern and then made my decisions after that.

 

[4-Hgirl]

Can I ask why you keep getting roosters??? Why not find a breed you really like, get a pair or 2, raise some of your own up, and show them. I get wanting to have some different ones, and finding some you really like, I have gone through alot of breeds over the years... but I always raised up some of my own and learned the ins and outs of the breed and color pattern and then made my decisions after that.

right now I have 3 chicken coops. 2 of those 3 coops are bantams and the last one is standard hens. I have 3 roosters right now: 1 Partridge Wyandotte in the white bantam coop, 1 White Cochin in the red bantam coop and 1 Barred Plymouth Rock rooster in the standard coop.

This spring I got 10 bantams from a breeder. From that breeder I got 2 White Leghorn pullets for show, 3 Partridge Wyandotte pullets for show this year and breeding next year, 1 Partridge Wyandotte cockerel for show this year and breeding next year, 3 Rhode Island Red pullets for show this year and breeding next year and 1 Rhode Island Red cockerel for show this year and breeding next year. but when it was county fair time I had all the same except I had only 1 RIR pullet and 2 Partridge Wyandotte pullets then at State Fair my RIR cockerel won Champion Poultry and I really wanted chicks from him but I had only 1 RIR pullet so I sold him to the breeder I got him from so I could get chicks from him next year.

I bought my cochin at state fair for showing next year and next year I am also looking for a couple hens to breed him to after state fair. I do a have a cochin hen but I don't want to breed them because he is white which is an accepted color but my hen is mille fluer colored which is not an accepted color. So I am not breeding him until I have a hen with an accepted color. I just got him for show

I got my barred plymouth rock cockerel for showing because he is a purebred. I want some purebred barred plymouth rock hens to breed him to next year. I have some BPR hens at home in the pen with him I don't really care if they hatch chicks but I would rather breed him to a purebred BPR hen not my hatchery production hens.
my hatchery production hens are smaller and their coloring isn't as clearly barred as it should be but a purebred is bigger and more clearly barred.

So if you or anyone you know is selling purebred standard barred plymouth rock hens ages 1-2 near SD I am looking for some

 

[4-Hgirl]

In one of my coops I have a Rhode Island Red bantam cockerel he is completely psycho the only thing keeping him at my house is that he looks really nice for showing and I want to breed him to my pullet when they are older otherwise he would be out of here so fast.

he is my state Champion Overall Poultry. as crazy as he was it was a hard choice if I wanted to sell him or keep him.

 

[4-Hgirl]

here is a slideshow I started making for public presentation next year

My Cows

My Cows

docs.google.com

I will have to put the rest of the pics in but so far how does it look? like is it too crowded or should I add something to it or change something else??