California - Northern

[PetRock]

I will be selling chicks and fertile eggs soon. I'm doing some test hatching now...

That's exciting news! Please add us to the list! I know that I could find some room for some of your cuties!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Congratulations! They must have had a meeting and decided to go back to work! What a great collection of color. I can't wait to add the chocolate to my collection.

Thank you!  One of my OE's lays the dark brown eggs.  She is 75% marans and takes after that side of the family!  Her sister lays a beautiful olive egg that varies in color from day to day.  I love  having multi-colored eggs!

Wow, I bet you were surprised to get a brown egg. Does that happen often? I'm just starting with Marans and using my Ameraucana roo. Didn't occur to me I could end up with an offspring continuing to lay brown. I thought I would get all degrees of olive.

 

[Happy Chooks]

So we've been having predator issues again (another fox, I think). I set up the trap this morning.
This is what I get for baiting it with salmon.


NOTE: not a fox...

Poor kitty doesn't look very happy.

We have a friend that used to work as a trapper and he told us that foxes are incredibly hard to trap. They are very smart. You need to cover the 3 sides and top of the trap with hay bales, so it can't see the trap. Good luck.

Except for my 2 pullets who are in isolation, it has been a good chicken week around here! After no eggs for over 2 months, 5 of my girls started laying this week! This is a pic of all the eggs we collected this week except for 1 that DH ate for breakfast and 1 that a scrub jay ate in the coop. We are egg rich again!!!

Beautiful eggs! Love that egg plate too.

We're getting 5 a day now - so glad to have eggs again! Yay for longer days and girls coming back from molts!

 

[PetRock]

Wow, I bet you were surprised to get a brown egg. Does that happen often? I'm just starting with Marans and using my Ameraucana roo. Didn't occur to me I could end up with an offspring continuing to lay brown. I thought I would get all degrees of olive.

My OE with a straight comb lays the dark brown egg and here sister with a pea comb lays an olive egg. I was told that the pea comb and the blue egg gene go together. I was thrilled to have one of each because I don't have any pure Marans and I love having a variety of egg colors..

 

[Miss Molly]

That's exciting news! Please add us to the list! I know that I could find some room for some of your cuties!

Sounds good, your on the list...

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Just went out and checked wings on the babies.  Looks like 1 boy and 2 girls!!  Sure hope I'm right, would have liked 3 girls .

at How many days can you do this?

 

[mendocinosunris]

My luck it would have been my cat.

It IS my cat. I've trapped the big doof several times. I think he's getting a bit senile in his old age...

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Feather sexing does not work for all breeds of chickens. But if it's one that is does work, I believe it's at 4 days.

Deb

 

[juststruttin]

Just wanted to share that my ewe just lambed. I'm bouncing off the walls with excitement, because, Its A Girl!!

Sorry for the poor picture quality, my camera was having issues.

Oh, I love her white socks and the nip on her tail. She is adorable. Congrats on her being a girl.

 

[juststruttin]

Picture time!

They were very excited to get into the yard today. some of the pictures show them blurred from moving.

The first one on the left is a Partridge Pene then Stella, the EO Marraduan Basque with the Mille Fleur pattern. The others are Dorking Crosses.


The one on the Left is Maranda's baby. The one on the right is a Dorking X Red



P Pene, Basque and Dorking Cross.



Blue Marans X Dorking and EO Marraduana Basque



Group Shot



Another Group Shot



These are some unique pullets!

Ron, they are beautiful. The Dorkings are really cool.