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Send a couple of spare pullets my way....
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I am going to have a hard time taking this breed out to the farm. I am thinking about trying out the rooster collar and if it works, keeping them here in town. I may hatch another dozen or so of them after the first of the year. Tempted to do it know but I would like to enjoy the Christmas season without chicks in the house!
That is my plan too! I have two pullets and still five cockerels. I want to get some hatched as soon as I can. I will put lights on them at 22 weeks old.
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When/If you have hatching eggs you are willing to part with I would love to be on your list. In my minds eye I see both Mottled Javas and Pita Pintas in my red white blue black silver and splash flock.I am going to have a hard time taking this breed out to the farm. I am thinking about trying out the rooster collar and if it works, keeping them here in town. I may hatch another dozen or so of them after the first of the year. Tempted to do it know but I would like to enjoy the Christmas season without chicks in the house!
D1 named the NH roo..The General...and tonight after everyone was roosting I slipped him in with the April girls. I am beside myself with the sounds he was making. At first he crowed. So happy to have female companions Then he made a noise that sounded like buck buck buck buck purrrrrrr buck buck buck buck purrrrrrrrrr. The girls were trilling and it was super cool. I could have sat out there and listened to it until they stopped. Tomorrow and Tuesday early am he will go back in the look but don't touch pen. Then back in with the girls to spend the night. Come Thursday or so he and Ozzie will take turns ranging but after their initial "confrontation" they really ignored one another so I am hopeful that all will be peaceful and they can co exist I have 17 hens...one of them is my broody. I hope that is enough for the two of them to be able to get along. I am adding two Silver Grey Dorking girls and will keep all of the chick from the hatch until spring so it should be OK right?
Picking up some EE girls for his former house mate and hopefully by next week end we will have everyone fully integrated and happy. I am feeling really positive about this whole thing. Tom is finishing the new pen/coop this week and then it will be available for Buckbeak who inspite of her saddle has angry red featherless wing shoulders (don't know the correct term) and Dotty who is molting something fierce and has the beginnings of the worn wing spots too. When the chicks are ready to be weaned I can move them in there and move the big girls back in the big pen. Like Laura I am just excited to have a space where I can isolate, grow out, whatever.
Hope to be picking up my SGDs from Kim this week or next...it's exciting times right now.
Oh and the 49ers won and Tom and I skyped with one of our Jersey girls so what is there to not bring a smile to my face...NOTHING!
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Oh goody so you may have eggs one day too???
Yes I hope to have some!Quote:
Originally Posted by ronott1
That is my plan too! I have two pullets and still five cockerels. I want to get some hatched as soon as I can. I will put lights on them at 22 weeks old.
Oh goody so you may have eggs one day too???
I moved my two pullets out to a pen last night but they were getting beaten up too much so I moved them into the tractor grow out pen. I did not latch the door and they got out. I forgot about them until at dusk my youngest daughter saw them standing at the sliding glass door. I opened the door and picked one of them up but the second one walked right into the house!
They were trying to get back to the garage where there old hutch is. They are very smart and peaceful chickens.
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How old are yours, Ron? It's funny that you have just the opposite from me! I have 2 cockerels and 7 pullets!
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I have my 9 in an outdoor pen during the day but inside in a water trough brooder at night. I have a group of Bresse and Langshans that are headed to the farm one day this next week. The PP's will take their place in the aviary pen with the secure XL dog igloo coop. They are anxious to come inside at about 6 PM. This evening, I opened the door and they all stampeded out onto the patio before I could shut the door. Then they just stood there waiting to be carried into the house. I love these birds!Yes I hope to have some!
I moved my two pullets out to a pen last night but they were getting beaten up too much so I moved them into the tractor grow out pen. I did not latch the door and they got out. I forgot about them until at dusk my youngest daughter saw them standing at the sliding glass door. I opened the door and picked one of them up but the second one walked right into the house!
They were trying to get back to the garage where there old hutch is. They are very smart and peaceful chickens.
They are 16 weeks old. I hatched 4 pullets and 6 cockerels in the first hatch and then three weeks later hatched two Cockerels along with three Cockerels and two pullets for a basque hen hatch.
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I have a lot more; many have been posted in "The Old Folks Home" thread but I still have more to upload.
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