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Originally Posted by itsren 

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

Your RIR is a pullet.

 

YAY!!!!!

 

BTW... I wonder if all RIRs are dull.  Mine is.  She doesn't have much of a personality.  But my EE and Light Brahma make up for it.  Oh my gosh - my EE is a handful and so funny to watch.  And, the Light Brahma is such a sweetheart.  She's my cuddle-monkey.  She seems to love being held.

I agree deffinatly a pullet, we got rid of my RIRs at 4 weeks because Louise ended up a Louise, with a very obvious comb..lol though he had the most AMAZING personality! Oh my heck! LOVED HIM soooo MUCH!! the pullet was dull but not him..

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Originally Posted by 4cats3kids1hubby2many 

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Originally Posted by Ogress 

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Originally Posted by 4cats3kids1hubby2many 

Okay, here are a few photos to give you some ideas of what VF has been up to for the past 2 days.  I was able to help much more today, but he was the one running around like crazy and again put in a very long day. 

 

Okay, VF started before I got a photo of the "empty" area...but this is with boards just starting to be laid out. Can you believe that a pile of lumbar and a flat dirt spot could end up like my last photo?  So, The front wall is 10' the back wall 6', this gives us the pitch so that I never have to worry about snow. We have work to do...but this is all stuff that I am capable of.  VF did the hard stuff. I have a lot of "during photos" and I will be posting and making a coop page. I need to paint. DH and are will put in a window and a few "cut outs" that will let air ventilate and light for the summer, but I will plug up during the winter. VF, made me a door. Of course I also still have to build all my cages for inside. This is going to be my serama coop. I am also going to build a nice big broody box/grow out box. Some of the cages will have runs that go outside, so I have runs to build too. Other cages will be for broodies, and for birds who need to be separate, or kept clean for a show. There is plenty of rom for a grow out pen, also for storage of my carrying crates, etc.  I am still just a planning and a planning. The hard part is done. I am so excited. Also, VF took his time to show me so much and I am not so intimidated to try and build something. It will not be anything of this scale...but still around 4x3 or something. More of an individual coop for 3 or 4 birds. I know feel confident enough to do it.

 

VF on top, DH on left, middle son inside. The window over by the rock wall will eventually go in the wall.

 

Little work to do, but this is the 10' face of the "coop"

Wow, that is one HUGE coop for lots of little chickens! I Love it! How many square feet? That copp sure will be able to house a lot of chickens! How many serama eggs does it take to make a quiche?

Well let's see:

The coop is 194 sq ft (I believe - it is just under 200 sq ft).

It will be housing a lot of birds...I am so excited. I will also be having it to store some of the "chaos" in my yard to clean it up and organize it. I am hoping to have 5 or 6 pens of breeding trios or quads. Then on the other side will have broody pens and brooder/grow out box/boxes.  My head is spinning from all the ideas.

 

Oh:  3 serama eggs = 1 grade AA eggs. So for a 3 egg omelet you will need at least 9 serama eggs.  LOL.  Not sure how many ina quiche.

That is wonderful!!  So exciting... :)  Well, I just made a crust-less quiche for brunch, served 7..and it took 12 eggs!

The other EE posted is a pullet as well, yes.
 

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

So tonight I believe the crazy hoarse sound I heard coming from my EEer "Martha" was her attempting to crow; I think a name change might be in order; Marty is quite a gentlemanly name and will suit him/her well if she is indeed a he

 

Also, as I stood in the doorway of the coop, one of my Buff Orpingtons looked like she was going to jump down to the floor from the high roost, or onto me. I held out my arm. She jumped. She flapped. She landed. Above my head on the top of the door!! Crazy chicken. I got her down so she wouldn't hurt herself.

Before I got some cockerals, my hen at the top of the pecking order used to try and crow. She was also a much better flock protector than the boys are. I still have her, but now she leaves those jobs to the boys.

Originally Posted by 4cats3kids1hubby2many 

 

it has cooled off some but it was really hot and I don't want to hold water from them when it is that hot. I will try this weekend if it is cooler. Thank you.

I know your heat is different then the heat we have here. I put frozen 2 liter bottles in the five gallon bucket, 3 will fit. Even the hottest days the water stays cool.

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Originally Posted by Illia 

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

Thanks!! I've been dying to know for a long time. She's seriously HUGE compared to all our other same-age pullets but I know EEers are hard to sex. Here s/he is! 7 weeks old:

And I think she was 3-4 weeks old here:

 

 

 

Definite girl!

Illia is our resident EE expert!! She is amazing!

Ok...hatching sucks!! (not really) The waiting is killing me!!!!!!

At last update, late last night, 2 had pipped. Today is day 21 so I am hoping for more news when Tamara gets up this morning.

I am never going to live through this.(I know DRAMA!)

Edited to add- Tamara just texted- 4 pips!

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Originally Posted by KMHunter 

Ok...hatching sucks!! (not really) The waiting is killing me!!!!!!

At last update, late last night, 2 had pipped. Today is day 21 so I am hoping for more news when Tamara gets up this morning.

 

I am never going to live through this.(I know DRAMA!)

Try living through waiting for a broody Polish of all breeds to live through AND successfully hatch out a clutch of chicks on the outside of the pasture/pen fence boundaries. Luckily after this rain she's proven to me that whereever she is, it is dry, but predators? -- Really really hope such a threat never happens! I cringe just thinking about it, but even if I did find her clutch, I wouldn't really want to move her. There's Tolbunt eggs under her, already at least a week in development.

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Originally Posted by itsren 

 

YAY!!!!!

 

BTW... I wonder if all RIRs are dull.  Mine is.  She doesn't have much of a personality.  But my EE and Light Brahma make up for it.  Oh my gosh - my EE is a handful and so funny to watch.  And, the Light Brahma is such a sweetheart.  She's my cuddle-monkey.  She seems to love being held.

I think its hard to pick One breed that has great personality or is the friendliest. I think it comes down to the individual chicken! When I bought my first group of chickens three years ago, I got two RIR. one is the sweetest most friendly girl lots of personality. she is my favorite and will be with me till the day she dies. she went broody last summer and was the perfect mom!. the other was the  ***** of the group. she was the first one into the coop every night and would scream and holler at the others as they came in. she would peck any bird that got close to her. I got rid of her three months ago..  I have two EE's and they aren't that friendly. one will peck me anytime I try to touch her.

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Originally Posted by Illia 

The other EE posted is a pullet as well, yes.
 

Yes!!!  Thank you.