Colorado

[maggiemo]

Love it!
Have a restful day.

 

[trochefarm]

I am now officially tired!

The shingles are all on (all different styles and colors, but it won't leak!). I still need to build the door, paint, and install trim.

Wow! Very nice!

 

[suncatcher]

Thanks guys!

Tomorrow is Sunday, so for me and the family, it is a day of rest. No working on projects. it will be a nice break.

 

[Dnetschke]

My daughter holding our buff laced & buff barred cochin bantams. by their expressions, I think they're comfortable.

 

[jgurshtein]

Wendell, LOVE your setup.

 

[jgurshtein]

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Here's Willow, my cuddliest girl.


Buffy got jealous and FLEW OUT OF THE BROODER to be with her sister. That's a first, but I could see it coming cuz all the girls have been trying to escape when I've got the lid off. Buffy is just the first successful one.

 

[644171]

sooo cute.. mine are still a week but avoid me like the plauge

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Here's Willow, my cuddliest girl.


Buffy got jealous and FLEW OUT OF THE BROODER to be with her sister. That's a first, but I could see it coming cuz all the girls have been trying to escape when I've got the lid off. Buffy is just the first successful one.

 

[Mtn Margie]

sooo cute.. mine are still a week but avoid me like the plauge

Somewhere around 3 weeks you will see them start to calm down and get more curious.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I am now officially tired! The shingles are all on (all different styles and colors, but it won't leak!). I still need to build the door, paint, and install trim.

That is AWESOME. And the rocker completes the look!

 

[Pozees]

I am sure you have the right order, but SOP chicks look a lot different than the hatchery ones! I added two more MJ chicks (hatchery), and looking at them and the ones on the Java Club of American, so different. These have a ton of yellow, where the SOP ones are mostly black with just a yellow on their chest. They also look like two different kinds of chicks. I also wondered if the SOP were bigger in size and more vigorous???

Hope you get all your outside stuff done today while the sun is out!

Interesting on the shipped eggs in the incubator and how people have different luck with different ways of doing it. Hope the new way works for you! IDK what to tell you as I have had NO luck in shipped eggs.

Yeah, I definitely have the right order Tony said most of his hatch light, some brown, but all get correct feathering. I told him they were blond beauties They are indeed. The day-olds are somewhat larger than hatchery chicks, the week-olds seem to be more noticeably larger than other week-olds I've raised. They are less panicky than hatchery chicks, which is something I also noticed about the Catdance chicks, and the only thing I can think that relates to is some combination of flock breeding and the way they are handled right after hatch, or maybe just the latter.

The wiring is done in half the shed, the other two pens are set up, this morning I have to move the chicks that are in the first two pens into the other two so Bob can access that side and finish wiring today. He'd like to get the power from the meter to the shed done this week, and then he can start on trim. The miter saw on its stand is taking up a lot of room, I will be happy when trim is done and it can go elsewhere. We are wishing we had made the pens a little smaller so there was more flexibility in how they're set up. I'll try to snap a pic today so you can see what I mean. At some point in the future after we insulate and put interior walls in, we will no longer need 8 of the 16 panels, then we can cut the longer ones down and make smaller pens and work out better use of the space. For now it is so far superior to what I've had before, I'm still thrilled, and the birds I moved in there certainly seem to like it just fine

I am somewhat surprised at how the chicks in there already take absolutely no notice of the hammering and drilling and climbing up and down ladders and etc. The Catdance Silkie with the crossed beak actually stands up at the front of the pen watching everything as if she actually understands, cute little thing that she is