California - Northern

[chrissyr]

the more i think about this, the more i realize i have a question: right now in the chick department, i have

-- five 7-week-olds living outdoors in a pen of their own
-- six 3-week-olds in the indoor brooder, along with
-- four 1-week-olds, and
-- twelve 2-day olds.
-- and there are 17 eggs in the incubator, hatching in a little over two weeks (although who knows how many will hatch)

so far, the three age groups in the brooder have all blended together into a happy flock without any drama -- hooray for that!

but the 3-week-olds will soon be grown enough to go outside, and i wonder whether i'll be able to merge them with the 7-week-olds?  or, i could keep them separate -- but by the time the littler ones are ready to join them outdoors, i'll have the same problem.

so the question is, what's the oldest you've been able to merge groups of chicks without the older/larger group rejecting the others?  at least they are are sizable groups, so no risk of a single chick being picked on -- but when do the pecking orders become cemented enough that newcomers really get rougher treatment?

Great question! I'd love to know about this too!

Cute!   

Thank you

 

[casportpony]

Quick pick of some babies! Olive egger (blue cm x AM) and a blue copper Marans

I'll be on more next week, busy busy!!

Very cute!

-Kathy

 

[tommysgirl]

I have good news for @sewandgrow ...

If she has a Del rooster and is still adding California Greys

keeping in mind that I am not chicken geneticist and that it has taken me a long time to approach novice level aptitude on the chicken calculator here http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculatorm I believe that it has revealed that the Delaware Rooster over the CA Grey produces a sex link. The girls will be solid black...and the boys will be cuckoo. I hatched a boy of this mix he had a head spot and his barring began showing within days. We had him for dinner two weeks ago and he was tasty and fairly tender and meaty. You may not have a laying flock like I do where your breeds comingle but I thought you might like to know that if a mating between them happens it looks like it will be a nice dual purpose sex link hybrid!

I further found that my NH roo will produce a sex link with both the CA Greys and the Dorking girls but the Del over Dork is not predictable, at least not according to the data I put into the calculator.

I am giving Norma CG eggs but will toss a few Dorking eggs in with her too. I only have 4 CG eggs collected and set day is Saturday. I want her to sit on 8-10.

Petunia is getting those Bantam eggs which will apparently hatch silvery chipmunk but then feather in white

I am so excited I can't stand it! The broody girls are, as close as I can tell, respecting each other's golf balls at this point. The other 4 in that pen are laying in the new nest box I installed and in the wooden wine box I filled with shavings and stuck under the coop. so things in that run are going well. Still no word re my silkie hatch.

 

[PetRock]

Quick pick of some babies! Olive egger (blue cm x AM) and a blue copper Marans


I'll be on more next week, busy busy!!

Adorable!!!

 

[PetRock]

More daily squee:

I snuck Peeper #1 out from under mama for a quick photo shoot:

Chocolate Orpington (eggs from PapaBrooder)


Camera shy! No, just chilly.


1 more almost out of shell, other 3 pipped, pecking, & peeping away...

Awww....how sweet!!!

 

[tommysgirl]

Quick pick of some babies! Olive egger (blue cm x AM) and a blue copper Marans


I'll be on more next week, busy busy!!

More daily squee:

I snuck Peeper #1 out from under mama for a quick photo shoot:

Chocolate Orpington (eggs from PapaBrooder)


Camera shy! No, just chilly.


1 more almost out of shell, other 3 pipped, pecking, & peeping away...

Cute babies chrissy!!!!! Goooooooo Babies!!!

 

[PetRock]

I'm so sorry. It's so hard to judge when & how much to intervene - especially in the middle of the crisis.
Know that your heart is in the right place & that you gave her a great life while she was here.
Learning as much as you can from her passing is a great way to honor her life too.

Thanks, Lisa. This time, I didn't even have time to intervene. That's probably better for me. I am slowly learning which conditions can be helped and which cannot.

Edited to add that we delivered her to Fedex this morning. My DH works for UCSC and is off tomorrow for Cesar Chavez day so I'm not sure if that means they won't open the box until Monday or not. I did soap her up with dish soap just in case.

 

[PetRock]

Here's a Fibro but with white feathers, my favorite! They're called--Royal Phuphan--



And the pure black fibro also a Royal Phuphan

Very cool looking birds! Looking forward to seeing pics of your new ones!

 

[Kaylish]

Quick pick of some babies! Olive egger (blue cm x AM) and a blue copper Marans


I'll be on more next week, busy busy!!

Super Cute!

More daily squee:

I snuck Peeper #1 out from under mama for a quick photo shoot:

Chocolate Orpington (eggs from PapaBrooder)


Camera shy! No, just chilly.


1 more almost out of shell, other 3 pipped, pecking, & peeping away...

So sweet!

Keep those pics coming! I've got Cream Legbars and Black or Blue Copper Marans(depending on hatch) on order, due to hatch on 4/16...MUST Resist the cuteness until then...

 

[sewandgrow]

I have good news for @sewandgrow ...

If she has a Del rooster and is still adding California Greys

keeping in mind that I am not chicken geneticist and that it has taken me a long time to approach novice level aptitude on the chicken calculator here http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculatorm I believe that it has revealed that the Delaware Rooster over the CA Grey produces a sex link. The girls will be solid black...and the boys will be cuckoo. I hatched a boy of this mix he had a head spot and his barring began showing within days. We had him for dinner two weeks ago and he was tasty and fairly tender and meaty. You may not have a laying flock like I do where your breeds comingle but I thought you might like to know that if a mating between them happens it looks like it will be a nice dual purpose sex link hybrid!

I further found that my NH roo will produce a sex link with both the CA Greys and the Dorking girls but the Del over Dork is not predictable, at least not according to the data I put into the calculator.

I am giving Norma CG eggs but will toss a few Dorking eggs in with her too. I only have 4 CG eggs collected and set day is Saturday. I want her to sit on 8-10.

Petunia is getting those Bantam eggs which will apparently hatch silvery chipmunk but then feather in white

I am so excited I can't stand it! The broody girls are, as close as I can tell, respecting each other's golf balls at this point. The other 4 in that pen are laying in the new nest box I installed and in the wooden wine box I filled with shavings and stuck under the coop. so things in that run are going well. Still no word re my silkie hatch.

Well thank you so much. That is interesting. I do now have a new Delaware rooster but I haven't made a connection yet for the California grays but have it on my "to do" list. I don't normally do a lot of cross breeding but that would be one to try. Thanks again....