California - Northern

[SpringPeeper]

It just dawned on me last night that Blue Mille Fleur X Blue Mille Fleur should act like any other blue crossing. So I checked the Kiplinger Chicken genetic calculator, and sure enough, BMF X BMF = 50% BMF, 25% MF and 25% Splash MF. Thus, the two blond babies I have are perhaps Splash Mille Fleur?! How cool is that?


Lucy has one Mottled, (under her peeking out), one BMF, and three MF (dark red/brown, light red and chipmunk!)
However, where did Ms. Chipmunk chick come from? Must be a deviation from MF?


Ethel has one mottled, two MF (one dark red/brown, one pale red), and two blondie Splash MF? OR could the darker of the two blonds be a pale BMF??

Beautiful hens, sounds like the chicks will be lookers as well!

I have some Jumbo Cots. Where are you located?

Glenn County, a couple miles outside of Willows on 162.

How do you stop young chickens from hurting themselves on the hardware cloth. Almost every one of mine has at some time or another pushed their beak through the wire with such force that the base of their comb (like the bridge of the nose) bleeds a little. The latest was my CLB girl she bled so much that it was dripping off her beak for a bit. We put some neosporin gel and then some Veticryn on the bridge of her nose and she seemed fine after it stopped.

The weird thing is the bleeding didn't seem to bother her one bit. Her temperament and everything was unchanged she was her happy self. With her bobbing her head everywhere I was afraid she was going fling blood drops places but it quickly quit bleeding and you can barely tell now that she even did it.

So far she has bled the most of any chicken and it was only ran for a few drops.

Is there a better treatment?

We usually use hardware cloth as a buried floor screen or a well out of rich brooder 'lid'. If we use it as fencing, then on the chicken side we'll over-lay it with something else to keep them from poking through. I would tell you what we usually use, but I've just realized I don't know what it is actually called. It's from Lowes, it's green, kind of a sturdy plastic with round rolled edges? Hopefully you know what I mean? Anyway, he just overlays it with another small-opening that is offset by a bit so there's little room for them to poke any parts through. We ended up switching from using hardware cloth for anything much but the floors and lids now because it seemed to get brittle and start breaking off in dangerous, shiny, delicious-looking-to-chickens bits when we used it last time.

 

[SpringPeeper]

Ok. I lied @caychris . He says he used Nylon mesh to offset it, but it felt and looked plasticky to me.

And I don't think I made it clear, he wouldn't wrap the whole run, just make a 'skirt' around the bottom to discourage things we didn't want poked out from poking out, and things we didn't want reaching in from reaching in.

 

[Audio51]

I have some Jumbo Cots. Where are you located?

Glenn County, a couple miles outside of Willows on 162.
You are not too far from me then. I am in Paradise. I have a bunch of Jumbos growing out. They are about 4 weeks and do not need heat. I also have some that just hatched on the 4th and the 5th that are in the brooder along with dome Tibetans. If you go to Chico much I could meet you there with some. PM me if you are interested. Are you looking for any specific chickens? I might have a few that I could part with.

 

[OR4-hmom]

  You are not too far from me then.   I am in Paradise.  I have a bunch of Jumbos growing out.  They are about 4 weeks and do not need heat.  I also have some that just hatched on the 4th and the 5th  that are in the brooder along with dome Tibetans.  If you go to Chico much I could meet you there with some.   PM me if you are interested.   Are you looking for any  specific chickens?   I might have a few  that I could part with.  

That's not fair, I'm trying to avoid getting more till I have housing built. I had 1 Tibetan hatch from Chiquita's eggs and of course it's a boy. I love the variety and want more but I don't have anywhere to house them now.

 

[caychris]

Ok. I lied @caychris . He says he used Nylon mesh to offset it, but it felt and looked plasticky to me.

And I don't think I made it clear, he wouldn't wrap the whole run, just make a 'skirt' around the bottom to discourage things we didn't want poked out from poking out, and things we didn't want reaching in from reaching in.

In this case it was a prefab coop.

 

[Audio51]

@ronott1 ...I just set some eggs shipped from Tennessee this morning in the Brineas. I do not have the turner on yet. I can't remember how many days you side to let them incubate without turning.

 

[ronott1]

I know my (Goth) sister is fully on board with my new chicken fetish as she's now posting pics of what chickens she thinks I should get on my FB page, LOL! And of course she's chosen the rare and expansive all black Indonesian Ayam Cemani. If I were made of money I'd commission a vampiric coop for her and track some of these down ...

You might have better luck getting svart hona chickens. They are black and look very nice too.

This one was posted on the thread today:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/806031/the-svart-hona-swedish-black-hen-thread/70#post_14080934

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 ...I just set some eggs shipped from Tennessee this morning in the Brineas. I do not have the turner on yet. I can't remember how many days you side to let them incubate without turning.

They need to be straight up not on the side. Twice a day turn them from the big end to the small end. Be very careful and do not jostle them. Make sure they are big end up when you turn on the turner.

Shipped eggs should never be on their sides because of the messed up air cells. The chicks will pop a vein or drown at the end of incubation sometimes. Non shipped egg should incubate big end up and hatched on their sides if you want. I hatch in egg cartons with the eggs tilted so that the big part of the air cell is up. The chicks almost always pip there.

The number of days depends on the air cell damage. No damage would be one day. The longest I would do this is three days.

If they are tilted during the turner off time, the veins can develop on one side only and then cause death on day 6 or 7. It is not common though.

What are you hatching?

 

[SpringPeeper]

You are not too far from me then. I am in Paradise. I have a bunch of Jumbos growing out. They are about 4 weeks and do not need heat. I also have some that just hatched on the 4th and the 5th that are in the brooder along with dome Tibetans. If you go to Chico much I could meet you there with some. PM me if you are interested. Are you looking for any specific chickens? I might have a few that I could part with.

The chicks I was interested in were Dark Cornish. I don't care what color, but I've been keeping an eye out for some non- Rock or X Cornish. Sending a PM about the Jumbo Cots.

 

[tridentk9]

I was counting from the outside.   They have 5 toes...right?  So wouldn't that be the 2nd to or the 4th toe if counting from the inside?   

It should be counted from the inside. On a human the thumb is the first digit (I), little finger is #5 (digit V). For dogs the dewclaw is digit I, outside toe is digit V. In avians the claw is digit I. Though I'm not sure how you count on five toed avians since the count is location plus morphology. Hmmm, interesting thought.

Edited to add foot website. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res13-feet.html