Chickenstock fiesta yardsale August 21

[kannna]

Thanks for the info. That will help in resisting the cuteness.

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

Darlene sorry to hear it really stinks!!! Coons are one of the worst, if they can reach something they pull it apart

I know one of our problems here are coons, the way some of them were killed. No tracks in some areas tells us there are flying predators too. No problems the last couple of days, that's mostly because they got everything they can get to... Have had no problems for a few years,and not like this, but no large livestock now either, so maybe that had something to do with it too.

 

[nuttyredhead]

Can't wait!!!

 

[muffi]

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Oh Darleen, I'm so sorry! I had problems with a fox that killed some birds through chain link. And a huge raccoon somehow made it into the coop through a 6-8" gap in the cable ties holding the netting over the top of the run. If a huge one made it through that size gap, I wouldn't be surprised if a smaller one could make it through a 4" gap. I've had big gray squirrels come in the run through the chain link, so if you have any weasels or martens around, I'm sure they could do the same.

I ended up putting 1" chicken wire over the top of my run and along the bottom around the outside of the chain link, bent in an L shape and buried under the ground. If you have something slipping through the chain link, you may have to cover all of it.

 

[keesmom]

Hey Laura, I'll be really interested in seeing what hatches out of those "E" eggs I gave you. First chick out of this cross is of all things a chocolate brown. I have no idea what genes out of a faverolles or sussex could produce this.

 

[muffi]

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You really should have posted a picture of the chick.

 

[keesmom]

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You really should have posted a picture of the chick.

I will tomorrow when we have some natural light to show the coloring better. No idea where this color came from. You saw the parents - the big columbian roo in the kennel run with the 2 black fav and columbian girls. How does brown fit into that?

 

[muffi]

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You really should have posted a picture of the chick.

I will tomorrow when we have some natural light to show the coloring better. No idea where this color came from. You saw the parents - the big columbian roo in the kennel run with the 2 black fav and columbian girls. How does brown fit into that?

All I can figure is someone was carrying an eb allele so you have an eb chick. Without melanizers, wheaten (eWh) is dominant to eb, but eb is dominant to melanized wheaten. So maybe the roo was eWh/eWh and a black fav was E/eb with melanizers. Chick could be eb/eWh Ml/ml+, maybe?

I got a shock when I put a lavender bantam cochin over a bantam RIR and got some chicks that weren't solid black. At first I thought it must've been a hold over from whoever the pullet had been with before, but this lav roo has thrown other non-black chicks with other pullets. So I think he must carry eb, which I assume goes back to Ideal Poultry using porcelain mille fleurs to make their lavender bantam cochins.

 

[howardacres]

Yay! A swap date! By May we should have some DUCKLINGS! Woohoo! I'll probably have plants too......

 

[keesmom]

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That's the conclusion I came to also. I'm not sure how Dick created the blacks, probably by way of a black LF orp. Not sure what those are based on. Here's him/her. He/she also has agouti stripes. I'm assuming this chick will feather out all black but it will be fun to watch. Only has 4 toes on one foot but 5 on the other.