California - Northern

[Happy Chooks]

Amy Beth.........so sorry you lost your chicken.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Quote: Good luck on those wayward chicks Deb.....5 days! They should be hardy if they made it.

DH tried our first processing yesterday, and got...3.. chicekns done. The only person I found charges 5 per bird. we are doing more research and I'm looking to maybe build a DIY plucker. Dh is a trooper because i'm too squemish for that part.

We going to try and meetup Tuseday? I know there is a breakfast, but not sure if some people cant make that, since I know we have a few only coming in the afternoon. I just lost the only survivor of my pricey shipped eggs, so I'm hoping someone has a few amazing BBS silkie pullets there, and maybe a showgirl roo. Rip little 50.

I really want to process but I just don't know how to find the time....and I have 4 right now, plus 17 chicks so you know I have at least 16 more

<----- hope that IS a joke! I would love to find someone to process them. Although the four EE cockerels are really beautiful and all the pullets from the same parents have all laid green eggs so I'd like them to be used and one is full of color and will be a beautiful roo!

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You would think that would be an easy question to answer.

I started with pure black ameraucana's and crossed to this multiple generation olive egger rooster:



I got 2 pullets from him, 1 blue and 1 black. Here is the blue girl:


She lays a light olive egg with brown speckles. The olive egger rooster is no longer with us because he turned into a turd who liked to attack me. My black olive egger is currently raising babies.

So the eggs I have now are this blue olive egger covered by my barnevelder rooster. Hoping for more blue chicks and a darker egg color.
OK, I do not see many black Ameraucana's. He's beautiful! So here's something I've wondered...ALL the black chicks that I have hatched from hens, a variety from EE's, RIR, Red Sexlink, Australorp covered by my silver Ameraucana roo are pullets! And I get a lot of black chicks. 3 out of the 4 that hatched last week are black so we'll see if that stays true but could this mean something about my roo? And if so, what? Are there not a lot of black EE or (true) Ameraucana Black Roo's? Or do I need to get out more!

Some of my Cream Legbar Chicks from my Hens... One white one so far.. Eight more babies hatching today!

Congratulations! SO, so cute! Did you get more? I've read one comment from someone saying they're a loud breed. Is that true? Are you selling any of the chicks?

and the new Partridge Penedesenca

This breed is on my must have list. Did you get to switch out the cockerel?

Sick chicken was found dead this morning. I have her in the fridge and need to go buy an envelope. Does anyone have the shipping code for Davis? I'd like to know what got her. Hopefully she isn't too far gone by the time they get her.

Amy Beth, I thought for sure it was an injury. I'm sorry you lost her but glad you decided to send her to UC Davis.

How do you down load pics to here? My daughter has a I phone if you can do it from her phone? otherwise I still put them on my computer and etc... the long way to put pics on, LOL!!

I bought the Tapatalk app (2.99). Makes it so easy to read the forum and upload pictures.

 

[ronott1]

Good Morning All!

My two little Partridge Pene's made it over night. One is a lot littler than the other so I put one of my Ecoglow 20's in with them. They were hanging out under it this morning.

Ron

 

[Miss Molly]

Good Morning All!

My two little Partridge Pene's made it over night. One is a lot littler than the other so I put one of my Ecoglow 20's in with them. They were hanging out under it this morning.

Ron

Ron, Glad to here they made it through the night. I love the Ecoglow's, they work so great. Good luck with the chicks Molly

 

[Miss Molly]

Bigdaddysmom,
Yes, I have chicks for sale.

Molly

 

[Miss Molly]

Jason,
Really cute Chicks

 

[PetRock]

LOL! I had 12 girls and 11 boys hatch. I sold a few girls and I'm down to 6 girls and 11 boys. Still trying to decide what to do with the boys because DH says no to having a roo in town. They are 10 weeks old and I sure hope they hold off on the crowing until I figure out what to do with them!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote:

You would think that would be an easy question to answer.

I started with pure black ameraucana's and crossed to this multiple generation olive egger rooster:



I got 2 pullets from him, 1 blue and 1 black. Here is the blue girl:


She lays a light olive egg with brown speckles. The olive egger rooster is no longer with us because he turned into a turd who liked to attack me. My black olive egger is currently raising babies.

So the eggs I have now are this blue olive egger covered by my barnevelder rooster. Hoping for more blue chicks and a darker egg color.
OK, I do not see many black Ameraucana's. He's beautiful! So here's something I've wondered...ALL the black chicks that I have hatched from hens, a variety from EE's, RIR, Red Sexlink, Australorp covered by my silver Ameraucana roo are pullets! And I get a lot of black chicks. 3 out of the 4 that hatched last week are black so we'll see if that stays true but could this mean something about my roo? And if so, what? Are there not a lot of black EE or (true) Ameraucana Black Roo's? Or do I need to get out more!
He isn't an Ameraucana - he's a multiple generation olive egger rooster, and he is dark blue in color. I crossed him to these pure black ameraucana girls (who were trying their hardest to look innocent as they stole my apples):


Blue crossed to black will give you 50% blue chicks and 50% black chicks.


Black is dominant, so that would explain why you are getting a lot of black chicks. And the hen determines sex of the offspring. So definitely keep your girls that are throwing pullets!

 

[debs_flock]

Hopefully we get to make this this week and try it out. Is there any other part besides the plucking thats a HUGE pita I should reserch?

Actually, I find the plucking the easiest part. A minute or so in the hot water (145ish degrees), then plucking takes about 10 minutes by hand. I am OCD on the pin feathers, so that takes me several more minutes at the kitchen sink. Especially since most of the birds we process have dark feathers. You've probably eaten a million pin feathers in grocery store chickens, but since they have white feathers you wouldn't notice. I am fanatical about removing every dark feather you can see under the skin (it's like squeezing blackheads, LOL

)

Deb

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yep, as long as you scald them properly, plucking is a breeze. You just have to get the wet feathers to not stick to your hands.