So my family is crazy excited to start breeding our on chickens this year for our own familys eggs.
We have purchased fertilized eggs before, which turned out wonderful. Observing the entire process of broodies, hatching out chicks, flock integration, etc... It was such an easy process for my...
When we hatched with a broody, lots of people had all different experiances. From horror stories, to easy peasy. Our experiance was awesome, easy, and a thrill to watch the mama teach the babies about life.
We put crumble in the food container for a month. Mama showed the babies where the food...
Hehe Carolyn ; P
Worst predator we have seen was a bald eagle in our pine trees in the backyard. That was three years ago, and before we limbed them 25' up. And the racoons got sick of being shot at by a pellet rifle 2 years ago. Havnt seen any predators since. Our cat is very territorial.
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I thought I posted a picture ther of it, must not have : / I am more active on the FB page then here. Its easier : P
Thank you for the compiment too : )
Covering our pen is not an option, due to its location next to our garage. It would look horrible if we covered it. If airborn redators come...
So, after to many conversations and trying different things to keep our girls in the pen when we want them to stay in the pen, my wife and I made the decision to clip our girls wings. The best sources of information I found on the topic, are these two links...
I used 3 pictures as my reference, then free handed it. I liked the tail of one, breast of another, and legs and comb of one. I combined all three to get my rooster. You've seen it in person : P
We are now down to 5 chicks : ( Wife came home today from chores and found one of the buff laced polish chicks dead, with no visible signs of any wrong doing : / sigh.
My wife and I are so overjoyed, I just had to drop in and post pictures of our broody momma, and her six chicks. I frequent BYC on facebook more then I do the actual website lol. To many posts to keep up with on this thread. On to the babies!
Momma: Black Copper Marans
3 Buff Laced Polish...
Sure its been a few years, but I wanted to say thanks for posting. You did a fabulous job painting it.
I myself have just finished our rooster weather vane for our coop. Ill post it in my coops page soon after I get pictures uploaded.
Well, I finally got a hold of one GCM pullet. Thanks go to Travis Lacey. He drove up to washington from oregon to do chicken buisness with someone who lives not to far from me, and he brought me his only GCM pullet this year that hatched only 2 days before selling it to me. Now it is under our...
She has been doing that this past two days. I also took the hanging feeders and set them on the ground. I put marbles in the water feeder as well so the chicks dont fall in and drown. Our other seven hens dont seem to mind the marbles either. So all is well in our coop. 7 roosting hens, and 1...
Thank you for your reply. We are a day away from our broody hatching eggs. She is in the main coop, and we have been wondering if momma feeds the chicks.
We have hanging feeders, and I have been thinking of just putting the feeders on the ground for two weeks. And smashing the pellets for a...
I use construction grade sand, not play sand. Play sand does not have enough different sizes of granuals (sp?) to work properly.
When it rains, it firms up like sand on the beach, but does not get solid, like concrete. It dries out much faster then dirt ever could, and sand is easier to clean...
Very nice selection of birds : ) it is what we are getting in a few months from a breeder in oregon. After what, 7 months of looking and asking around, I realized there is not one gcm breeder in washington state. People have them, but not breeding them (nore will I be). However, in april or may...
We just have 3" of sand in the run, with bare dirt under it. The coop has 1 1/2" of sand inside it. We made it through our first mild winter and those days were it got down to 14 degree. I dont recall all of the sand freezing, just the patches of moisture froze. Our girls made it through there...