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[debs_flock]

Quote: Chooklet will be easier to find

 

[LiveLoveBOHO]

and to this thread! BYC is a great place to learn everything chicken plus a whole lot more!

Thank you Pet Rock I'm learning daily

 

[chiqita]

Pro tip: NEVER trust my spelling.

Stuffing has returned, but no idea where she is hiding her eggs. She looks dehydrated, I gave her some fodder treats with water and she was very grateful. Mario is laughing at me. But she NEVER leaves the nest without laying. I was imagining someone calling the ASPA for turkey abuse with her panting out there.
I would complain she does not lay in her nest box, but when pumpkins layed in there she would terrorize the chickens, not sure what 2 turkeys would do.

YAY for legal chickens, and it sounds like you had quite the battle! I admire your coop even more now.

 

[chiqita]

Thank you Pet Rock I'm learning daily

welcome! I love lodi!

 

[LiveLoveBOHO]

welcome! I love lodi!

Thanks are you near Lodi

 

[BCollie]

So, I have another question! My brooder is filled with a layer of sand about 2" deep. Before I put in the chicks, though, we covered it with a double layer of paper towels. However after just over 24 hours it's already getting pretty gross. When can I take off the paper towels and let them have just sand? Can I pull back just a corner and see what they do with it? My main concern is that they'll just try to eat sand instead of their food, as it's about the same size..

Anyone?(btw - just looked at the sand and apparantly I was wrong, it's waaayyy smaller than their food)

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Jason,

I just hatched 9 of your Crele Pene eggs. I am soooo excited!!!! I will get pictures once they dry out and I know the boy/girl ratio. Yipppeeee. Thanks for the awesome eggs!!!

very cool

Great looking babies. How long are the posts you are putting in? Please keep taking pictures of how you do your fencing, I need ideas. And how to do my netting over the top without it sagging.

these are 5" x 8 ft lodge poles. I dug my hole 21" deep ( I am 5 "8" ) kinda leaning on the pole. I used 2 and a half bags of 50 lb concrete per hole. They are not going anywhere lol

Your chicks are either (Buff x Blue Wheaten) or (Wheaten x buff) bred back to blue wheaten.

These have turned out to be such pretty chicks! I love the ones I have here. From your pictures I am not seeing any that stand out as roosters yet. I am having a hard time telling the sex on the ones I have too. A couple are obvious with their combs being a tad bit more pronounced and turning pink. More than one row of peas in their combs says rooster

I had my first pullet to start laying last week from a buff x wheaten bred back to a wheaten rooster (I no longer have the wheaten rooster) and they are the pretty turquoise (blue green) color.

cool there are a few I am sure they just where not photogenic lol

Still nothing on the other six (day 22 today). If they do nothing by afternoon, I'll try candling them. The first 9 chicks look great and I can get them out.

I am glad we at least got 3 emp's to go along with the 4 young ones I have. I hope to have good numbers by fall of both the crele penedesenca and emp's

That is lovely. My first coop was that same basic design. Although your rockwork is lovely. I didn't need to do that since mine was level and I cut some corners on materials, but this is very pretty and the walk in design is awesome.
These chooks are made for walkin'.....

LOOK at all that SPACE!!!! I am so jealous.

Weight Watchers really does work! I can see my toes again!

This is the best place to learn a pile. And this is the best thread on the whole forum!

Hey! I was there the day those came in the mail for you! lol and the ones I picked up from you are finished pretty much I would say. I will give some stats in a separate post!
Mine just hatched this weekend and I want them out of the house already!

I have 2 more runs the same size. I need to build a few larger coops though

Kind of a busy weekend with trying to start building my coop. I wish I had a friend that was knowledgeable and handy with this kind of thing so I didn't have to struggle through. It is kind of fun, but now that I am on a time limit, I am a little stressed. Weekends only building is slow going.

I didn't get a pile of pictures yet. I will try more tonight.

I also have to do an official count. Today is day 22 and I had 2 hatch over night. No more pips in what is left. The smell in the bator is KILLING ME!

I believe I set 36 at lockdown and of those 2 looked to be early quitters. I have one Polish that hasn't pipped, One CL, One Welsummer and about 9 or so of the shipped Wheaten Ameracaunas that haven't even pipped.

Amazing the vitality difference between the hatched and shipped eggs. The 3 Wheatens that did hatch, they all had goo stringing behind them and the one chick I am having issues with is the third Wheaten to hatch yesterday and it was pretty weak to begin with. I had to finish zipping the shell and pull the top off.

The Polish also had issues a little. They all pipped half way down the shell and start out really pretty weak but then perk up pretty good after a day.

I didn't really intervene in any other chicks.

I will start posting pics to see if you can help me identify what I have. Deann should be the best able to help because she is the one I got everything form but the WA's.



This is a blue something..... lol. I can't remember what I had in there now. I have to go look at my list.


Sorry for the distance of the picture, but I was sticking my camera down in the brooder and just snapping pics. The Polish chick there on the left is probably a boy. He runs out, was pecking my phone, fairly fearless, I think he might be a gold laced polish, but not sure.

I am pretty sure I have at LEAST one Cream Legbar boy. PetRock? You still need a boy?

you need a coop building party. I am not a contractor or architect but am good at making not to terrible coops with pretty good runs. Luckily I landscape and have built a few fences in my day

 

[Deerling]

Chooklet will be easier to find

haha thanks, Deb!

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I'd only worry about covering the sand for 1-2 days. Once they are aware of where their food is located, they should be fine. And eating a bit of sand is just like grit for them.

 

[lawatt]

my goodness -- it never rains but it pours -- a FIFTH chicklet of mine, the second of the two SPPRs, has apparently gone broody -- sitting on three fake eggs & has plucked her breast feathers out... the world seems to be pushing me toward more and more chicken math!

love seeing all the chick and coop photos! and amy, good luck with your poor chicken with the bum foot!