Expanding runs at the moment. Complete u shaped around the barn with interconnecting doors so when 1 flock is freeranging another flock has access to their run. It's like that now but runs were smaller, only 2 were connected.
Trying to get a growout coop built also, that run is done, sort...
A Black Copper Marans roo with dark egg gene would darken or add dark speckles to all your eggs every generation. Breeding with your Barred Rock hens gives you what some hatcheries call 'Midnight Majesty's' or use him for Olive Eggers.
A Blue or Splash roo for fun colors.
Now your partner will start wanting certain breeds. If he needs help picking a breed (cough..more Marans) I'm in a forum near you and willing to enable.
The sub-section to chicken math will initiate soon.
Well, seeing that I'm over max capacity on coops and birds and now have my 19th broody....I've decided there's nothing much more to do than set more eggs. 🥴
The 3rd and final daughter of King x Roady (BCM x BA, black/white band) is now sitting on 5 Lil Jessie eggs. I wanted to set more of...
Good question, but don't remember. I'll do math tomorrow.
Some I know..
There's 21 total in Kings coop, 16 in Poppys, 3 cockerels in a bachelor coop, 14 babies in a big separate brooder, 2 ducks in an outside coop, and 5 bantams in a 4x4 outside coop.
Kongs coop I'll have to look up numbers for...
I need to do a head count just in Kongs coop, but that pic is maybe 1/2. The bigs were mostly headed for roost and the littles like to stay out a bit longer to avoid the chaos.
I candle mine when they come off the nest for her daily. My nests are darker tho so there's that. Is her nest open so she can come off on her own or do you let her out?
I say this so if she doesn't come off nest the last couple days, I don't force mine to. I treat it like incubation lockdown...
Get the brightest light you can, but its still hard to see thru the dark eggs. I built my own so I'm using a 5k led bulb, but I'm pretty lazy when it comes to candling. I just candled a few of Solos eggs under Angel with 4/5 days to go and found most developing.
My candler I built with a non...
Just brainstorming ideas... you can cut a kitty litter jug, milk jug anything you can cut the same way to close the gap up. Even screwing 2 boards top and bottom, then screwing 2 more over them. If you can wittle a half moon in each even better.