He used to build pole buildings for a living and so its just wall metal that he fit in there he cut it to fit out the door and put wood around any sharp edges. I've never had a chicken get cut on it!
From what I understand the desired wyandotte tail is shaped like a tee pee. The bunny tail is shaped like a horse shoe. Photos of your birds from the rear would help determine if they do have a bunny tail. Someone with more experience on here might be able to tell if they have the proper tail...
I see 3 hens and 1 rooster in the lower photo. I hope to someday have GLWs again... My last where from a hatchery and even then I thought the gold and black lacing was pretty!! Someday I want Breeder/show GLWs
Good luck finding that out!! All my wyandottes have laid brown eggs and sometimes with the little dark spots. I have had Blue laced red and Sliver laced and golden laced Wyandottes. I also had Colombian wyandottes years ago. Maybe post a photo of the egg in question :)
Those are both BLRW the top bird has black lacing in the front but I see blue lacing in the wings and tail. Both are blue laced red wyandottes. I would call them pet quality and you should get tasty eggs from the hen :) The bottom is most definitely a rooster. Good luck with them!!
I've been hatching BLRW for a few years now. I've probably hatched close to 1000 if not more... I've never found a good way to sex my wyandottes at all. I've tried feather sexing and it didn't work at all. So unless the seller can vent sex I'm sure you have a straight run. So you should...
I've had a few of mine do this yes. But the spots are not to dark not in anyway like a marans. I enjoy my Wyandottes because the eggs aren't always just plain old brown I get some lighter pinkish eggs and the spotted ones sometimes. But the majority lay a light brown egg.
My regular cuckoo marans hen is about 7 months old and my GCMs are about 6 months old. I really don't know who laid those eggs but I'm wondering if my cuckoo hen could even lay such HUGE eggs like that 2 days in a row. I didn't even know my GCMs where laying so its a mystery!!
I'm not to sure if these HUGE eggs where laid by my cuckoo marans hen or my Golden Cuckoo Marans Hens. I have 1 regular cuckoo and 9 GCMs so I'm thinking it was maybe the GCMs since I got one yesterday and one today. THey are HUGE!! My eggs scale couldn't weigh them. So they weigh over 2.5oz...
I do think heat does affect fertility in chickens. But I think that the SLW fertility problem is deeper then just heat related. The best fertility I had with my SLW was 30% and that was in mild summer weather. I started hatching as early as January here in 2012. Of course my first few hatches...
I purchased some BRs from Jeremy. And I just LOVE them! Not even one died and I have 5 roosters and 9 hens! I can't believe my luck!! THANKS Jeremy! I hope to put photos up soon but the roosters are still in the half unfeathered ugly stage. They have such beautiful barring :)
This is good advice!! My Wyandotte roosters are very tasty at 18 weeks... If you plan on raising and breeding chickens its almost a must to be able to butcher unwanted roosters... Just something to think about.