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Congratz!!!

What an awesome property! You should see my "to do" list and unfinished projects.

Hi Lisa, All those wonderful natural remedies and prayers! Lucky chickens! The guy who ran the crew that built my coop is also one of my permaculture teachers, Kirby Fry. He was talking about planting an "herbal ley" for my chickens. The idea is a garden full of herbs, forbs, and other plants...

One of my close friends is planning an aquaponics system that sounds very similar to your setup in many ways. He's planning to use tilapia in hope of supplementing both his family's and his chickens' diets. He says the tilapia die if the water temp gets below 53 degrees (or something like that)...

Beautiful coop! If you are putting gutters up anyway, have you considered collecting and storing the water off of the roof? If you store it properly, and use first flush drainage, etc., you can give it to the chickens. Just a thought. Down here in Texas, we are very big on rainwater collection...

Lisa, I'm so sorry about your loss. Thanks for this info - it's really useful. I hope I never have to use it, but it's better to know, just in case. I have never fed my flocks medicated feed - they've haven't ever been sick with anything to medicate. I just found out for a fact that they don't...

THANKS!

Kim, hang in there! You aren't alone. We understand. Everyone disses Ideal's SG Dorkings, but mine looked more like bricks on short sticks. Most were rectangular front and back. Not one duck foot in 20 of them. All had 5 toes on both feet (though the 5th toe didn't always point upward, it was...

Lisa, I wish I could help, but I can't. I am so sorry this is happening. Please keep us posted, and best wishes for a speedy recovery. I'd quarantine, if possible, ASAP.

A bit off topic, but someone on the Facebook Ameraucana Chickens group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/65816532358/) posted a picture of an EE pullet that looks to my uneducated eye like a blue silver, maybe a lavender silver, but somehow very unlike the SG Dorking pattern. Until I noticed the...

Hey Karen, excellent explanation! April, hope you have a better idea now. I'm glad none of us started talking about the Cuckoos, Spangled, etc. :) I've kinda been lusting after some Spangleds... even if they aren't recognized anywhere.

Hey April, This is a pretty high level explanation that I tried not to make very technical. I hope it makes sense, but isn't too simplistic. A breed is made up of a number of characteristics that stay stable over a long period of time. Within a breed, there might be some variation on a...

Check out https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/462216/five-toed-breeds for a discussion on 5-toed breeds.

April, THANKS for all of those links! I'm adding them to my Dorking presentation. Cheers, Kibi

BTW - I have a story to share with you all. I have two flocks, one of which is 15 7-week old SG Dorkings and another which is 24 14-week old Ameraucanas. Each flock free range in separate yard sized runs. One day, the Ameraucanas got into the Dorking run. My lead Dorking cockerel, Lancelot...

D'oh! Sorry that I forgot to post it! kwhitworth AT austin.rr.com. Thanks SO much!

Hi Folks. I'm giving a 10-15 minute presentation on Dorkings to the Austin Backyard Poultry Meetup Group (http://www.meetup.com/AustinBackyardPoultry/) during our first Heritage Chicken meetup next Saturday morning. I'm putting my notes and pictures in a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation, and...

Thanks, K.I.! I've lowered the temp a bit. It's already in the high 80's here, so that probably has a great effect even though the thermometers were all saying 90 - 95 before. Their coop should be done next week, and I will be able to regulate much more easily out there.

Just wanted to post a quick note because it's been extremely hectic lately! I got 20 Silver Grey Dorkings from Ideal on Thursday: it looks like 15 pullets and 5 cockerels. So far, they look fine - haven't noticed any duck feet, and everyone has 5 toes. Very little pasty butt. That's about all...

Excellent, and thanks! I think they will do well here, then. We had many days around 110 here last year, but this year is much wetter and milder (so far). I'm building a new coop next week under some 60-year old oak trees. They will be able to free range in their own private pasture/yard once...