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Got the boar coon a bit ago! Still on guard because there was a young male in the pear tree. Set the traps again tonight and set up the game camera. Will start sorting the juvenile cockerels out tomorrow.

I've been battling raccoons that have been able to unlock the lids on my nest boxes. Changed latches, using traps and 22. I have hatched over 100 this year and held them in the barn and two super secure pens. One last boar coon to get and I can move more juvies outside. Sine the coon hit...

As always Karen, we can count on you to bring us great information. I'm going to find that book! While not big, my open air coops, built like a short loafing shed, is very serviceable and easy to maintain. They can also be moved.

The series of the American Poultry journals yearbooks for 1914-1915 on the history of the different breeds had many great articles on poultry husbandry (In post 8146). I had read the section on the Wyandotte and then checked out the table of contents. Particularly liked the ones on health and...

Feel the need to plug the Wyandotte here...a nice dual purpose breed. Slow to develop but laying by 7 months with 3 to 5 eggs per week. Plump by 16 weeks with a nice carcass. I like my Columbian, Black, Blue while others like the Silver laced and Partridge. Docile and inquisitive...

[S[/S]Congratulations on your showing. I'm so glad to see all your photos. Your got some lovely clear shots. The White Wyandotte LF were nice. My Cochin are large too...big body under the large feathers.

Beautiful job Bee! They look great! Any time I've had to bathe a bird, the bird has mellowed out for the process. I guess a few hours in the spa "does a body good".

A quick explanation... I keep a detailed records in a journal/notebook with a chart for each tray of eggs set...lists number of eggs from each pen. On candling day, I list the number of eggs from each pen still remaining the the tray. Then when moving to a hatch tray, each pen of eggs is...

So far I have had two small hatches...trimmed bumm feathers and fertility is up now...and the hens are laying like crazy. I'm setting a tray of 102 eggs every five days Now there are over 100 Columbian Wyandotte eggs in the incubator...13 chicks with a brood hen and 10 eggs under a broody hen...

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I understand that RC RIW are pretty rare. Rob Newburn from Indiana has a small flock. He is a BYC member.

Karen, Somehow I missed your New Year tragedy! How awful for your buildings and flock. Your Light Sussex appear to have a nice caretaker. Perhaps you will be able to rebuild your pens and bring some home again. Chantecler are a lovely breed and you would be a wonderful addition to the...

We plant arrow leaf clover, winter rye and fescue for winter grass for the cattle. The spring, summer and early fall pastures have Bermuda, crab grass, Dallas grass and Johnson grass. Weeds we allow to grow are wild sunflowers...more for shade around the pens, Lambs quarters, dandelion and...

Definite issues with Columbian. My avatar shows the proper down color for a nice colored Columbian Wyandotte. While I am getting the great combs, leg color and size I wanted by breeding some of my Columbian Wyandotte hens with a white Wyandotte cock, I am also getting Barred Wyandotte and...

Thank you. It has been an ongoing process now for several years with great advice from folks right here . This year I've been focusing on the legs and combs. I brought in a great White Wyandotte line from Larry Dye to breed to the Columbian to strengthen the combs and the leg color. An added...

Posted these photos on the Heritage of Perfection thread and it was suggested I post them here also....so here they are I've been selecting first string birds for the Columbian Wyandotte breed pens and have been banding them. What other qualities should I be considering? This Columbian pullet...

I also brood on the ground as often as we can. Sometimes I have to use a large wall cage until the hatched chicks are a week old. The hen and chicks remain in a floor pen in the brooder room for another week and then mom and chicks free range with the flock. We have also had hits by hawks and...

@3riverschick and @MagicChicken congratulations to both of you!

I'm still hatching from one pen of Columbian Wyandotte and will set those eggs Oct 5 and Oct 10. Other than the Quail and the few special Bantams, I rearrange the pens and break until February. Surprised today to get two Ringneck pheasant eggs. I thought they would begin laying in March...

Broodies here are Wyandotte, Cochin, and a few Wyandotte X Cochins. Then the Delaware Bantams and the Rosecomb Bantams are not far behind. A few sneaky girls have hidden their nests and surprised me with chicks...even with a black snake in the barn. Fortunately it has been satisfied with...