California - Northern

[Nikon]

I just meant looking through the pen, there are other black chicks in there (araucana, etc), so I couldn't just look for black chicks and look at the sex. But there are 3 for sure and I think 4 BC marans pullets in the pen. One would probably be okay, but I usually prefer to blend in a chick with a "friend". They are much less likely to get picked on if they have someone else to pal around with. Usually if you introduce two birds together, they will do better and remain BFF's, LOL

It's not supposed to be so much of an issue with chickens. Kind of like with breeding frogs. You can breed back to your same clutch over and over. In the wild, some dart frogs never venture past a very small territory, so generation after generation breed within the same population until they are unique from the population in close proximity.

Oh I see! Lol, long day at work. Pull the cord on my back and I recite, "Hi, welcome to !@## %$#$, how may I help you?"

Ok, yeah, def see your point. Ahhhh chicken fever! How to squeeze X amount of chickens in a 4'x4'x4 coop.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Not a problem, for perspective, their bodies are currently about the size of a softball.

 

[Nikon]

Great looking setup Nikon!

Thanks! Took us a month to build it. We have 7 hens and two Roos (one is going to a new home when he grows up more). The Purina plans said the capacity is 8 :S

 

[debs_flock]

Here's the typical meat spot that I've seen and found on the internet

Here's an OMG one that I found on the internet. I think if I found this, it would put me off eggs.

 

[lizanne]

Here's the typical meat spot that I've seen and found on the internet

Here's an OMG one that I found on the internet. I think if I found this, it would put me off eggs.

ewwwww.....

No kidding!! Why would you even cook that?

 

[Nikon]

Not a problem, for perspective, their bodies are currently about the size of a softball.

Lol, now. But we have an English Orpington an a brahma in that mix. Gonna be clucking, feathered beach balls!

Regardless we still want Marans.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I do like them, these are some of my typical eggs.

 

[Nikon]

I do like them, these are some of my typical eggs.

Oh my gosh! Look at those! For those eggs the twos rams can overflow into the house if they don't fit! Yes we want em

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Jason... Here's a update ....

they are looking Great Molly. Are you gonna breed the crele? I have a few extra young roosters

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

wow. send some my way when you get these going

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

I like my openings higher so the the hot air and moist winter air can escape better. that being said if there is good ventilation above this would be fine as in the summer you can keep them cracked and it will flow the air through better.
You making a pallet coop? I love the one I made for my young ones

I do like them, these are some of my typical eggs.

ok Deb now you are just showing those dark eggs off lol

 

[chickee]

Some pictures I took today

Wheaten Ameraucana chicks with Dun Cuckoo d'Anver chick~


d'Anver chicks~ Dun Cuckoo, Khaki Cuckoo, buff Columbian~



Golden Cuckoo Marans pullet




Black Laced Red Wyandotte pullet chick~



Splash Laced Red Wyandotte Cockerel~