Hola!! Been a while..busy busy:) gardens in full bloom...baby cicks getting big..two broodies who are eggless;( hoping one makes it for another 2 weeks when my 10 freedom rangers come in. I Have 18 bresse growing out for the freezer as well...I plan on keeping 6 new hens and a new rooster from...
I see 2-3 CCL girls and 2-3 CCL roos..are you sure the white chicks came from my eggs too? They almost look like pure bresse which Im pretty sure I didnt send because I didnt think they were doing the deed yet? They are out of that group now anyway as of last week.
If you can get another top...
The yellow chicks look to be WHITE legbars:) Ive Been wanting to hatch those!! Only time wll tell..tha means my white bresse roo snuck some girls...good thing hes not in there anymore! Then I see pure cream crested legbars...the chipmunk stripe ones..very distinct patterns...I wish I knew...
-21 here:(
Hubbie put a heater in the coop last night and it was a balmy 20 in there this am!! Thank goodness...I get real worried about losing tons of birds when it hits -30/-40 and it has many times last Winter!
This past summer I also had 5 extra roosters growing out with the freedom rangers..
Cuckoo marans
Splash marans
Black copper marans
We ate one the other night and he was great...I pull them out of freezer and put in a large tupperware bowl of salt water where I keep it for 4 days...cook it on...
Well heres the thing...ive only had 1... It was amazing...then it was my mission to get some breeders..which took me a year but I got them..then the roo died ruining my year of butchering..so I had to order freedom rangers this Summer..I fed them the way I was going to feed the bresse..normal...
Feeling so accomplished today!!! Seperated out my bresse into their own breeding pen today..now that the new girls and old are hopefully all laying and the roo showed signs of interest...I pulled them from the group barn!!! Ill give them 3 weeks to clear unwated sperm from the CCL roo and then...
I cant for the life of me figure out how to copy and paste a thread on here from my ipad!!
Aceschix is having her chickenstock may 3rd Saturday in NH...Imlive in NY and shes 4 hours from me..I can tell you when we had her chickenstock a few years back at her house it was packed, great prizes...
Im so with you Matella!!! I get jealous of people who get to hatch in the winter and have laying chickens by summer I don't have hatch until the end of may basically maybe a little sooner this year will sing
on a good note April announced that she's doing chicken stock at her house again...
Yes!!! I made deviled eggs for 3 stops as well as guacamole and chips:) easy peasy!
HI TABS
My girls are finally cranking out 12+ a day...I will be downsizing some in the Fall when I butcher my bresse...have to get rid of 5-7 non egg layers :(