Cackle Surprise Grow-a-long

[buckock]

Well, it's been awhile since I posted an update and you lovely chicken nerds need to know. Chicken math is a rough business, but made especially rough with an over-indulgent husband. The chicken count for Glendale Farms is 132 chickens. Plus 3 ducklings, 6 turkey, and 5 quail. Don't ask how the quail arrived but it was dinner gone a'foul. We have also branched into sustainability with 52 Jumbo Cornish Cross waiting for Camp Kenmore at the end of the month -O) and are in the middle of building a grand egg mobile for our 50+ pullets. Alas I digress.

Of the babies from May 25, many found homes at swaps. Two were victims of a merciless rat attack (now fixed). Our remaining chicks are 11: a pair of lovely Royal Palm Turkeys named Crash and Clover, 2 Blue Swedish Ducks (ducks are gross soif anyone wants them....), and 7 chickens. The gallus gallus domisticus are: a pair of brown leghorns, 2 black tailed red maran roosters (one with very odd coloring we call Oatmeal), a buff orpington rooster (didn't find a lady at the last swap), and a pair of Jubilee Orpingtons - such rotund delights!

 

[buckock]

Well, it's been awhile since I posted an update and you lovely chicken nerds need to know. Chicken math is a rough business, but made especially rough with an over-indulgent husband. The chicken count for Glendale Farms is 132 chickens. Plus 3 ducklings, 6 turkey, and 5 quail. Don't ask how the quail arrived but it was dinner gone a'foul. We have also branched into sustainability with 52 Jumbo Cornish Cross waiting for Camp Kenmore at the end of the month -O) and are in the middle of building a grand egg mobile for our 50+ pullets. Alas I digress.

Of the babies from May 25, many found homes at swaps. Two were victims of a merciless rat attack (now fixed). Our remaining chicks are 11: a pair of lovely Royal Palm Turkeys named Crash and Clover, 2 Blue Swedish Ducks (ducks are gross soif anyone wants them....), and 7 chickens. The gallus gallus domisticus are: a pair of brown leghorns, 2 black tailed red maran roosters (one with very odd coloring we call Oatmeal), a buff orpington rooster (didn't find a lady at the last swap), and a pair of Jubilee Orpingtons - such rotund delights!

Here’s Oatmeal!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had a mini order on the 23rd of may. I didn't get ducks or turkeys, I got 28 chicks.

I combined them with a meyers box I ordered first...

I picked through and kept some, and rehomed some. They had some interesting chicks in the Cackle box. One I was most impressed with I didn't keep because it was a rooster, Red laced wyandotte. Not golden mind you but actually red. I would be interested in that breed.

 

[NatJ]

They had some interesting chicks in the Cackle box. One I was most impressed with I didn't keep because it was a rooster, Red laced wyandotte. Not golden mind you but actually red. I would be interested in that breed.

Anyone breeding Blue Laced Red Wyandottes would expect some chicks to have black or splash lacing, still with the red ground color. So ordering "Blue Laced Red" from any hatchery wil typically give some Black Laced Reds and Splash Laced Reds too.

It looks like Cackle may be doing something a little different, and sorting the chicks by lacing color, because they list all three colors separately:
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/black-laced-red-wyandottes/
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/blue-laced-red-wyandottes/
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/splash-laced-red-wyandottes/

 

[buckock]

Anyone breeding Blue Laced Red Wyandottes would expect some chicks to have black or splash lacing, still with the red ground color. So ordering "Blue Laced Red" from any hatchery wil typically give some Black Laced Reds and Splash Laced Reds too.

It looks like Cackle may be doing something a little different, and sorting the chicks by lacing color, because they list all three colors separately:
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/black-laced-red-wyandottes/
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/blue-laced-red-wyandottes/
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/splash-laced-red-wyandottes/

I have ordered silver, gold, blue laced red and black laced red from Cackle. I’ll take a photo of them (currently 6 months old) and share. Hatchery stock and their shape is not SOP but the lacing is very good on the red laced black and one silver.