better pics of the new kids

Sir rooster from the side and front


and the two girls

what you can't see is what animated little gorgeous critters they are. It's like watching little wind-up toys... they never stop moving!

Dandenong Poultry Clubs Show

I wasn't showing today but went down to have a lookie-loo since it's fairly close to us and it's always nice to meet more local people. Of course, being as I was arrogant enough to post on a public forum that morning that I was pretty happy just having my 'dottes, silkies and aylesbury I promptly found something too pretty not to buy. ~_~;

So I'm the proud new owner of a trio of Old English Game. The roo is sold to me as blue duckwing, the girls as lemon blues. I know nothing about OEG but they're pretty and I like them and they're close to looking like the blue cream light brown dutch bantams on my "colour one day I must create in Australia" list. LOL (The BCLB Dutch bantam can be seen http://www.dutchbantamsocietyamerica.com/files/adbscolor_files/typebluecreamlightbrownc.jpg here)

So here's the new trio in their cage.

Roo seperate

Pullet

and hen.

Now for a few of the other birds there that caught my eye...

I was happy to see a lovely Aylesbury there... one of Jacquie's babies, owned by ToH

Pilgrim Goose - Tim's as are the two brown Chinese below



Silkie - there were two of them, same owner absolutely lovely to see the SIZE on them! Gee wiz, would love to have that with my blacks! O_O

Std Partridge Dotte - a surprise to see, apparently also of the same bloodlines mine are from but the only one the guy owns, so no luck in having another local breeder!

Random game cock and hen, above and below


A pretty pair of buff orphington ducks, drake and hen

And below, a number of the muscovy there....



Another blue and white, whose markings I really liked. I still know beans about Muzzies but the colouring on her wings was such a pretty frosted blue. One of Hamish Russells I think.

Yippie! ^_^

I just came back from inspecting a bank of aviaries I was looking to purchase as breeding pens so I can have MORE chooks... LOL (Because what else do the addicted do?!?)

They were very nice, currently being used to house breeding flocks of parrots. The guy will be disassembling them over the next week or so and then we'll go pick them up. Very tickled! These will be used as night pens, with additional daytime runs to be attached but I should be able to keep a heap of chooks in them very comfortably! Yippie, yippie, yippie!!!

One handsome duck!

After all these dramas...

Eek... has it been so long since I updated? I guess mostly it's just been watching everyone grow up and been quite calm on that front! I do have new pictures of my lovely 'dottes though.

Cedar, whom I got at the Euroa auction last year.

And my Jarrah and Penny bubs... the first four are from their first clutch and the boys are "The Boys"... big, friendly, curious lugs the lot of them! Hard to get pictures of because you can't hardly get them away from you long enough! They *almost* look like handsome adult boys instead of young and gawky pipsqueeks!

One band

No band (Being naughty and looking the other way!)

And two bands

And their sister, who is even more uncooperative in getting a decent picture! You can see most of adult feathers in though.

And these two girls are from the last clutch from Jarrah, hatched only a few days before he passed away. They're still in their 'toddler' feathers of course. There are eight more of them but they've got their older siblings habits of not holding still!