Well it's hatchin' time!
Three EE's from the green eggs hatched Thursday:
3-EE-06082018 by pragmatist712 posted Jun 8, 2018 at 5:36 PM
The silkies must take longer to ripen up, one just hatched right before I'm writing this and I can tell at least a couple more have poked holes in the shells...
Thanks, no the roof wasn't hard. I just used a online calc for gambrel roofs and it gives the angles to cut the roof frame, and the edges of the plywood roofing.
This is a short article listing the attributes of the barn style coop I built from scratch. I'm sorry I misplaced the plans for this build but the basic idea is fairly simple.
I got the basic idea from some posts on here and some internet searching.
The Coop:
Barn Style Coop by pragmatist712...
I bought these 3 at an atwoods in oklahoma. They are about 3 weeks old as of 05272018. The white one came out of the standard pullet bin, the other two came from the Bantam straight run bin. The tan one with some feathers missing around the neck was larger than the others to begin with so not...
I haven't hatched eggs in several years and had gotten rid of my styrofoam incubator. So, I bought this one:
Magicincubator by pragmatist712 posted May 27, 2018 at 7:57 PM
I ordered eggs from Dunlap Hatchery which I haven't ordered from before. Eggs are 4 EE (olive colored standard size -...
These came from a local farm and outdoors store (Atwoods). I believe them to be about two weeks old, the pictures were taken the day I brought them home. My guess is three Barred Rocks, two Red Sex Links, and one Rhode Island Red. What's your guess?
This is the flock minus one of the Barred...