Show us your poultry!

Ladies and gentlemen, the chicken has landed.

It's that time of year again... eggs, fluffy yellow chicks, gallinaceous ornaments galore. A local shop started selling these fairly nice but badly painted figurines, so obviously I had to pick up a few to repaint!

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I found a book on poultry breeds of the world (a must in any well-stocked library ), and apparently that's all it takes to get me hooked. It doesn't hurt that this is one animal that is quite easy to find in model form...

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The brown Schleich hen I already had, but she didn't really come into her own until I got her Bullyland friend. There's something in their attitude..

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Tinies! The made in China cheapo is way nicer than the Bullyland micros, really detailed.

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This guy is just weird.

Anyway... *drumroll* Let the thread commence? Or are you... chicken?

I enjoy watching chicken collection, they are very cute :) Some of these models I see first time. The rooster looks really funny
I don't have any hen in my collection. My son has 2 or 3 though so I may take photos of them :) He had really beautiful CollectA rooster but unfortunately lost it somewhere...
I think any birds which I could count as poultry are my mallard ducks and goose by schleich but I use to think they were wild

Thanks for sharing!

On the first photo - Are these custom works or you buy from somewhere?

I'm not chicken! But I don't have any really spectacular poultry in my collection I will share what I do have.

The current Schleich rooster (China and Germany versions)
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Schleich brown hen, colorful rooster, and chicks!
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I need more chickens! Bullyland and CollectA both have lovely ones I'd like to add someday. :)

-Kristie

Ooh, I like those Schleich variations! I'm currently repainting mine into a what is essentially another version of the same color.
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Will try to post a better photo once he's done.

What a great idea to re-paint a rooster !
I can`t wait to see him finished, Sumo

BTW, -There are SO many kinds of poultry, - it is amazing so few breeds are made

As I love Bullyland, - and variants, here are some
Strangely enough I only have the old ones

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Is pultry only chickens?
But never mind ! I just HAVE to show the fethery ones I just got from Yvette

Plaho :
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Safari goose, Runner ducks from Wilton and the Bullyland pelican sneaked into the picture
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The old poultry from Schleich

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Many of these old ones came in box, but they are darned expensive, so I have only this one, because she is one of the Schleich I love most

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And here my chickens from Papo

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The picture was taken last summer. Imagine only 4 - 5 weeks, and everything will be green here again

Sumo wrote:

Ooh, I like those Schleich variations! I'm currently repainting mine into a what is essentially another version of the same color.
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Will try to post a better photo once he's done.

I like the repaint job.

SUSANNE wrote:

And here my chickens from Papo

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The picture was taken last summer. Imagine only 4 - 5 weeks, and everything will be green here again

This is beautiful!!

Lots of good ones so far, I like those Bully ones and the Papo. Is this chickens only or +turkeys?
Ducks and geese a different thread some time? I will have to pull together a photo, I have s few interesting chickens.

Tiermann wrote:

Lots of good ones so far, I like those Bully ones and the Papo. Is this chickens only or +turkeys?

Good question, - I was thinking about turkeys, too

Tiermann wrote:

Ducks and geese a different thread some time? I will have to pull together a photo, I have s few interesting chickens.

Yes, yes, yes Please show us ...

Tiermann wrote:

Lots of good ones so far, I like those Bully ones and the Papo. Is this chickens only or +turkeys?
Ducks and geese a different thread some time? I will have to pull together a photo, I have s few interesting chickens.

The same here even I'm enjoying seeing yours. I don't have a single chicken. Many foxes here!
I'm more used with scientific classifications, like Galliformes (Chickens, turkeys, grouses, pheasants, peafowls, etc) or Anseriformes (ducks, geese, swans). They are very distinct groups, I guess! :)

these are amazing!!!! the white pair are works of art! their paint might not be "realistic" but it's brilliant. The black one is very striking.
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Roger wrote:

Tiermann wrote:

Lots of good ones so far, I like those Bully ones and the Papo. Is this chickens only or +turkeys?
Ducks and geese a different thread some time? I will have to pull together a photo, I have s few interesting chickens.

The same here even I'm enjoying seeing yours. I don't have a single chicken. Many foxes here!
I'm more used with scientific classifications, like Galliformes (Chickens, turkeys, grouses, pheasants, peafowls, etc) or Anseriformes (ducks, geese, swans). They are very distinct groups, I guess! :)

Also for serving!!

What a lovely show of Chickens!

To us, "Poultry" is everything that you would find in a poultry yard. So we unpacked the Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Guinea Fowl and Pigeons ... and packed them all away again ...

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Back in 1956, Lesley was given this family of White Leghorns for her birthday. They are metal figures from the "Prize Poultry" section of the old Britains Farm range.

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Here they are with a Schleich Zebra to show scale.

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More from Britains metal poultry yard.

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Composition Cockerels by Elastolin and unknown makers.

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Composition Hens by Elastolin and Lineol.

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Other composition Hens.

Sue & Lesley
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They are WONDERFUL , Sue and Lesley

I can`t believe that there are so many of the old metal ones from Britain, - the chickens are absolutely delightful ! And the one nesting !
And it seems that by them they could make defferent breeds

Thankyou for sharing from your enormous treasure of models again

Yesss!!!! Then my memory isn`t quite gone...I was sure that at some time I learned that "Poultry" was just as you describe : The feathered ones that the farmer`s wife went out to feed in the morning...ducks and geese and turkeys included

Amazing collections!

I learn so much here. :)

-Kristie

Sue&Lesley, so much beautiful chickens. Really quite wonderful! Thank you for showing!


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Yvette

Very interesting vintage chickens!

Thanks Sue and Lesley for sharing! The size fits for Schleich animals.

:) :)

Absolutely fascinating

Thanks Sue and Lesley.

Here are my modern phasianids! No chickens here in the fox kingdom.

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CollectA peacock, Bullyland pheasant and Safari turkey ... I love them all... and I still need the grouse!

Roger wrote:

Here are my modern phasianids! No chickens here in the fox kingdom.

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CollectA peacock, Bullyland pheasant and Safari turkey ... I love them all... and I still need the grouse!

So poultry range is so wide!

I hate the word poultry, but here are the birds that live happily in my farm sanctuary :)

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That brown one in the front nearly missed the photo shoot but luckily she's a good runner!
All Schleich, except for those 2 small Starlux ones.