California - Northern

[The Yakima Kid]

Want but unless I want to sleep in the coop I can't have.

What a wonderful excuse to upgrade the coop!

 

[TheKeeper]

splash bantam Ameraucana

Oooh, she's a CUTIE...

 

[Kaylish]

Yeah 2 foster buffs down.

What a wonderful excuse to upgrade the coop!

 

[Audio51]

Almost finished a small "bachelor" coop. Still need to stain it and get it level on blocks. Made a new nest box for one of my other coops with the scrap wood


Trisha

Beautiful work!

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I think when I hit the 500, I was including grow outs and chicks in the count...........................so I just stopped including them,

I had to exclude them, the count scared me

OMG....my count of 28 scares me...

chicken assortment
black Penedesenca
white Pmpordanesa
crele olive egger
splash bantam Ameraucana
brown red bantam Ameraucana

Nice looking birds.

Yeah 2 foster buffs down.

Nice work! Hope you ar able to place the rest.

Quote: Any excuse will do!



I got 3 CCL chicks from Kaylish (Thank you so much for parting with your boys...) today for my poor broody. I slipped them under her this evening and so far so good. She was happily clucking away when I peeked in there a little bit ago..

 

[chrissyr]

Is that Yinepu?

-Kathy

Yes, it is! She is amazing on what she can hatch! And all homemade incubators

 

[chrissyr]

Anyone have dimensions for perches?
The "normal" perch they won't perch on.
So they use the 2x6 on the wall and push each other off.
So I added slats that I thought were close enough together.
Went out and 1 cockerel got his head caught between slats and died.
Any further they were pushing each other off.
Using flat 3 inch fence boards where they push each other off.
They just won't sit still at night

 

[chrissyr]

chicken assortment black Penedesenca white Pmpordanesa crele olive egger splash bantam Ameraucana brown red bantam Ameraucana

Wow! Those are all really nice birds!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

So, a friend of mine (the teacher I've been working with the last few years) got a job out of the country, and gave us a couple of Rubbermaid tubs of stuff. I was finally going through them--one of the tubs has had ventilation slots melted into the sides, and has one of those stick-on liquid crystal thermometers on it (on the outside). In amongst the stuff was what my husband identified as a reptile heating thing--it looks like an electrical cord that someone's flattened the end into an oval. Now, what's the likelihood that, with something to go over the heater thingy, this would work as a brooder? (I could always email my friend and ask about the heater, I suppose...) If pictures are needed, I can take some...

Of course, when I pointed out to my husband (out of my daughters' hearing) that we might have a set up for chicks, he wasn't sure we wanted any... And it's not like we can afford shipping on chicks until after I get paid after the first month of school, and I don't think there will be any day-olds anywhere come October.

 

[alibra]

I had 7 Wyandotte eggs & 6 jubilee orpington eggs incubating. Candled, & one is fertile. It's a Wyandotte egg.

I think my orpingtons have too much butt fluff....

Anyone have trimming experience?

 

[1zooman12]

Thank you Chiqita for your interest and possible help. I'm not sure about the actual Kathy whose post I saw. She was talking to somebody who said that he was divesting himself of some of his zillion birds because he found himself dipping into his retirement funds just to pay the attendant feed bills. Actually I think that he was into chickens with his wife. It takes a brave and dedicated soul to cut back on a hobby which has taken him over. Self discipline is to be admired. At any rate, I was just hoping that he might have had some Delawares that were those F5s or possibly some F6s the the product of a lady named Kathy (in Missouri? I'm not sure…) was supposed to have developed. Besides, I only wanted a trio of the genetic superior, i.e., a cock and a couple of hens. I want to explore developing a better type of subsequent hybrids demonstrating sex linkage in which Delawares are one of the parental stock being used. It just happens that I have a keen interest in genetic improvement as my birds that are the product of sex linkage are not performing as well as they should either in physical development nor in egg production. These I bought as day olds at a local feed store and they are now about 8 months old. They don't lay as often as they should, the eggs are smaller than expected and one is even laying only the egg with the membranes minus the shell. That only encourages flock mates to indulge in eating their own eggs. I think given better parental stock one can do better than that. That is it in a nut shell or is it an egg shell?…
Thanks to anyone who reads this little blog and might help in locating the top notch Delawares!
Sincerely,
Neal, the Zooman