The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ShelbyCoral]

I have barnyard mixes, mostly... from my breeds listed below, in my signature line. I have them listed in my online ad, and that the eggs are barnyard mixes from those breeds, but people here don't seem to care much... just as long as they're the majority of pullets. I have had some ask for specific breeds, so I'm working on getting those for them. One guy asked for three dozen Rhode Island Reds, and a dozen Ameraucanas. Wheeeee!

I have like 2 black copper maran/amerancanas and i dont know about the others... Oh three or four Ancona/ black copper marans. dont know the others... But they got big! Marshmellow(1st broodymama) cannot put them all under her anymore! Diva(3ed brooody and now a mama) just hatched two of her own two days ago. And then I have the 2ed broody mama who is Divas daughter which we named DD and she has 4 kids and they are all black/white and black/brown. I think I might have a new breed going on here they all most look alike... I have 5 that are the same and then 3 that are white and black... two from my 1st mama has a boy and a girl, and they both are going to have lacing! Both the same comb (double comb in the back and single in the front) Weird!

 

[southernflock14]

8 square feet per bird times 38 birds = minimum of 304 square feet of run needed, go bigger if possible

I am most likely going to expand to 2/10 of an acre or more

 

[SilkieSensation]

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Not sure what your square footage is is the problem. If you give me the dimensions of the pen I can calculate the square footage but just telling me the acrage doesn't really tell me anything.

 

[southernflock14]

There isn't really no dimensions it is just a round pen for horses made into a chicken coop.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Pictures help! Just saying... Okay im going to go hide in the coop for another couple days....

 

[SilkieSensation]

There isn't really no dimensions it is just a round pen for horses made into a chicken coop.

Ahhh...what's the diameter? Distance side to side across the middle.

 

[JennaLynn122]

I finally got (my 6 yr old sons) Nankins! So excites to start breeding them to standard. These are my first bantams and are the only known natural bantam. They are also on the critical list so we are going to try to contribute to breeding them back up and into the standard. I believe my trio are within standard but haven't found the SoP yet to make sure (if anyone can point me to that it would be apprieciated, its not in the 2010 book BC they were added in 2012) These are suck sweet birds I just had to share them with you guys.

 

[southernflock14]

Ahhh...what's the diameter? Distance side to side across the middle.

70 ft. 3 inch

 

[SilkieSensation]

That (if I did the math right) is 3,876 sq ft. Think you're fine. That's over 100 sq ft per bird.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

I finally got (my 6 yr old sons) Nankins! So excites to start breeding them to standard. These are my first bantams and are the only known natural bantam. They are also on the critical list so we are going to try to contribute to breeding them back up and into the standard. I believe my trio are within standard but haven't found the SoP yet to make sure (if anyone can point me to that it would be apprieciated, its not in the 2010 book BC they were added in 2012) These are suck sweet birds I just had to share them with you guys.

Oh my, so precious.I would totally help them make a come back! So sweet! I want one!