Here's some more of my chicks out in the yard connected to the brooder coop, (2 rir, 6 barred rocks, 1 Dominique , 1 black australorp, and gallito my black sex link rooster I hatched out)..he's gonna be the protector of my free range birds that ima have in a different coop that are gonna be my...
I'm not sure what he weighs or what he's supposed to weigh but yah he's pretty big...but his tail feathers aren't grown out as much as there gonna get... waiting for that one year mark so I can see him fully grown and feathered.
Yah I'm hoping the same thing...I keep trying to put her in there but each time they peck her and don't let her eat...I tried giving her some water and feed of her own but they claim that as there's as soon as I turn my back...I know I Gotta leave her longer so they'll accept her but it's hot...
thank you and yah that's the truth....but usually I have them both in the breeding pen that is split in two sides so they don't fight...but I just recently bought a 3 month old RIR hen and the other girls won't let her
Eat or drink.so I have to now give the boys turns with the girls so my lil...
I did have 25 in there.but 15 of them we're males so they went to the smoker....right now there are 10 five month old hens 1 one and half year old hen and a 5 month old rooster...and they don't even take up a 1/3 of the roosting space...in all we got 39 chickens counting the babies that are at...
Anybody here live in Elgin Texas...my wife and I live on 7 acres in Elgin...we have 39 chickens counting the babies to...I'm starting a business...I'm going to be selling all ages of various breeds and also hatching eggs...it won't be fully going until. Next year but in the next month we will...
Anyone got any suggestions for candling black copper maran eggs...I can't see through Any of the shells with my candler...is it possible to candle them
Got the wall that faces towards the inside coop all painted and the boxes got 4 layers of paint on them...built to last...ha ha....
Back side just needs the top and the back door but ima do that after I attach it to coop....then ima slap some barn red paint on abd it'll match my brooder coop...
yeah the last few days have been really hot but no more rain...it helps though that I worked building scaffold since I was 18 and I'm 24 now ....plus I work on an ambulance so I gotta get my exercise in before work.but Yeah I use osb board for every thing I built but I always put paint on...
My setup so far...
My brooder box...sorry it's a bad angle but only picture I got right now...
My breeding pen..which has been remodeled since this picture..
The sides now have black netting for looks and shade..and protection from rain... But underneath the netting is chicken wire is...