California - Northern

[Janeothejungle]

Took advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend to finish covering the run. All that's left is doors and one corner! The green coop roof is growing in GREAT! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

 

[Ali707]

Serious like this?


Same hen with her first babies, LOL. She has perfected the "stink eye".

Trisha

Will you please shut that light off and close the door!!!

Thanks He is a pretty good roo and I like how he treats the hens. I just took those pics yesterday, so maybe was another pic you saw?

Trisha

What is the usual temperament of the Barnvelders? My 4 week old roo is a jerk. I am surprised to see it so early. On the other hand I have some of the others in there from the same stock that are not that way at all, he is just really big. He looks like he is a week older than all the other birds that hatched same weekend.

 

[ronott1]

Took advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend to finish covering the run. All that's left is doors and one corner! The green coop roof is growing in GREAT! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

That is a great Coop!

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Took advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend to finish covering the run. All that's left is doors and one corner! The green coop roof is growing in GREAT! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

That is gorgeous! I love that sign too.

 

[chiqita]

Jane amazing job!

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: I love her the shape of her head too. She passes it on too. I try to select roos that have really wide heads and short beaks. I hate to see "crow heads" or weak heads.

Here is a pic of one of my young roos. He's not perfect yet, but he has a lot of traits I like. He is really wide when you look down at his back and top of his head. Great dark grey under fluff color too, which has been an issue with my original males. The bright sun in this pic kind of washes out his leg color.



edited to add another picture:

This pic shows his color better. His wings aren't too low...some of my barnie roos (the ones from the Johan line the most) have low wing carrage.

Trisha


I think I have seen this picture a time or two elsewhere, and each time I think.. wow, what a handsome bird!
Thanks He is a pretty good roo and I like how he treats the hens. I just took those pics yesterday, so maybe was another pic you saw?

Trisha
Well, they were all today... I do read the Barnvelder thread and I think I saw his picture on another thread too, can't remember .. so that is probably where I kept seeing him? I still say - absolutely gorgeous! And not even a year old? Just WOW!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

What causes an egg to weep? Is it because its old? Or shipping? I just candled and 8/18 are clear/weeping and the other 10 I can't really see through

 

[chiqita]

He really a ha handsome fellow. Such a different shape then I'm used to!

 

[ChickNmamma]

Took advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend to finish covering the run. All that's left is doors and one corner! The green coop roof is growing in GREAT! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Lovely yard and coop, looks like Chicken Heaven! Plants to dig underneath, green things to peck at, nice bright red coop with a ramp to climb up.. And nobody to question motives...

 

[ChickNmamma]

What causes an egg to weep? Is it because its old? Or shipping? I just candled and 8/18 are clear/weeping and the other 10 I can't really see through

There are a few reasons I have found for an egg to weep. Usually the number one reason was it got too cold or too hot too fast. Eggs are porous, they breathe. If they can't expand or contract quickly enough because shock extremes of hot or cold they will micro fracture and that's where the shell will weep. Usually it comes from doing something like putting cold eggs into a hot incubator, or when they are shipped passing through an abnormally cold area.

Other possibilities are: overly porous egg shells - something going on in the hen's tract that doesn't lay down an even coating of shell; microfractures or tears in the membranes from mishandling (shipped eggs being jarred); cleaning of the shell with cold water allowing bacteria to get into the shell; old eggs that have already started to deteriorate, when put in an incubator they don't respond properly and rot and the pressure pushes the goo thru the already thinned membrane which allows weepage. Those are the ones I can think of off hand.

Its true they don't all explode - but the ones that do.. those are memorable.. and not ever intentionally repeated