Hello all just an ol ky boy coming from Salvisa, Ky. Just getting started this year raising chickens but have aspirations to start breeding, hatching, selling etc.
I have true aracauna in blue black and splash Nancy Utterback Line and an unrelated line of GDW aracauna.
I also have red/blue...
I am in the same boat had 4 hatch 2 days early and now day 25 and nothing with other 8. In my case ambient temp was raised by having heat lamp from brooder close by. The 25 watt incandescent bulb on a dimmer works well once dialed in in my mini fridge diy incubator. But the warmer room temp...
Ok after sorting through 60 plus chickens this weekend here's a list of keepers in no particular order.
Layers
Hank GDw clean face ara rooster
Jane Red Comet Hen
Henny brown partridge ee hen
Black dbl tuft ara NU line hen
Audrey GDW dbl tuft ara hen
2 white cochin hens
1 leghorn hen
3 ee hens
1...
And what you've all been on the edge of your seats biting your nails for..
The Birds!
two lovely hens one double tufted and one clean faced
and a splash cleanface hen that actually hatched these chicks out herself! That's right a broody aracauna. As rare as that is she had another blue hen...
Some shots from the trip
Not too exciting I really wanted a pic with the Utterbacks but felt a bit foolish to ask. Really nice people. Real class acts. Even though they had to leave early the next morning they accomadated me. Didn't rush me off even checked if we made it home safely. Can't...
Ok tell me if I qualify for chicken fool status..
Friday 7:30am-6:30pm
Working trimming trees
7:15 pm
Get home
7:30-11:30pm
Drive four hours to pick up chickens (this is a man with 50 ish chickens already mind you)
11:30-11:40pm
Met the legendary Nancy Utterback and her husband and got a...
He's a good kid though stays out of trouble. Has a job so I am blessed
Err 21 today me thinks. Still have 3 cemani eggs and five ara x red comet eggs updates when I make it home
Not exactly recent but thanks. Can't say its been long though august I think. Audrey my ara has only laid 3 eggs each one a lil lighter. Shes been molting though