California - Northern

[debs_flock]

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LOL

 

[PetRock]

Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

Gorgeous!!! What a fun project!!!

 

[BCollie]

So my mom and I are starting on our coop and are wondering about windows. We have two 21 by 28 inch windows that we want to put on the east and west side of the coop. We are wondering if the windows can go on the bottom, like this...

I appologize if the image is too big, i'm posting from a phone and it doesn't give me the option to resize

 

[Nikon]

LOL

I know I'm waiting on pins and needles to hear from you about potential Maran girl/s. If you don't have any I'm gonna head up to Redding with some friends and go to church

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: LOL, okay, okay, I'll go look. I was fussing with the six bins of babies in the house and vacuuming/dusting, etc. Somehow the housework doesn't take care of itself while I play with chicks, ducklings & poults.

And I have to

from DH who is doing actual work, LOL

 

[Nikon]

LOL, okay, okay, I'll go look. I was fussing with the six bins of babies in the house and vacuuming/dusting, etc. Somehow the housework doesn't take care of itself while I play with chicks, ducklings & poults.

And I have to

from DH who is doing actual work, LOL

Six BINS of babies! Holy Moses! Ok, I'll check back on my break and then after work.... see pins and needles We may have to build an addition to the Bed & Breakfast, but we really want those dark eggs.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: One with ducklings (two hatches), two with turkeys and three sets of chicks (four hatches).

The turkeys just jump in and out at will................they need to move outside. Last night I caught a chick out strolling around the room too! LOL A couple of weeks ago, I had eight bins in the house, the heat out of that room was unbearable, I didn't even like to go in there. Some of the chicks were to the stage of jumping onto the edge of their bin, looking next door, jumping down, eating, jumping back up and going back to their own bin. They OWNED the place, LOL They are now all in a shed growout pen. I believe there are marans there too.

 

[Nikon]

One with ducklings (two hatches), two with turkeys and three sets of chicks (four hatches).

The turkeys just jump in and out at will................they need to move outside. Last night I caught a chick out strolling around the room too! LOL A couple of weeks ago, I had eight bins in the house, the heat out of that room was unbearable, I didn't even like to go in there. Some of the chicks were to the stage of jumping onto the edge of their bin, looking next door, jumping down, eating, jumping back up and going back to their own bin. They OWNED the place, LOL They are now all in a shed growout pen. I believe there are marans there too.

Oh yay! The rest of our flock are about 8 weeks old.

 

[zooweemama]

Ok I have a weird egg issue. We cracked open an egg to fry. Fresh egg from today. Inside the egg was the normal egg white, yolk PLUS what appear to be a chunk of chicken. Almost like a colorless piece of cooked yolk. SO weird. I usually try to candle some of my eggs before selling them. But I am mortified at finding this because what if I customer comes across this? I have NO idea what it is, how it would get there or who laid it. We junked the egg. I did save the weird chunk. It's about the size of a nickel so it's not tiny. I cannot find a thing on the net about it. Any ideas? it was NOT a worm. It's not a living thing. lol

 

[tommysgirl]

So my mom and I are starting on our coop and are wondering about windows. We have two 21 by 28 inch windows that we want to put on the east and west side of the coop. We are wondering if the windows can go on the bottom, like this...

I appologize if the image is too big, i'm posting from a phone and it doesn't give me the option to resize

Your birds shouldn't have to roost or nest/lay in a draft so in general windows placed high are better but not knowing the layout of your coop it's hard to say if this window is placed well. In our coop the door has a window up at the top, there is a small window above the roosts which they can look out if they are standing on it but not when they are hunkered down roosting and the floor under the poop tray is wire mesh. Ventilation is good Drafts are bad. I am going to find pics on my phone and post them for you if that will help.