Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

wasnt that one of your projects to do rosecomb isabels?

 

[BriardChickens]

how deep did you do the wire?

apparently not deep enough. Just spoke with one of my co-workers who is an avid hunter. I am going to cram everyone into the coop for a few nights and bait my run with raw chicken and canned pet food (i think I have a can of tripe hidden in the back of my pantry for a few years now). Hopefully he'll sneak in through the same hole where he'll find the snare.

ok just out of curiosity because I think everyone has added a breed or two this season what breeds of chickens or fowl of anything does everyone have now? I dont think I heard what kind you had either @seminolewind (just that you have pet chickens?)





did anymore chickens come back @RavynFallen ?

Partridge Chanteclers (going to add more in a few weeks)
1 Orpington Rooster (will be placed shortly)
1 gold laced wyandotte hen (will be placed shortly)
Cayuga ducks
Coturnix quail
Tennessee Red Quail (when the eggs hatch)
oh and almost forgot about the single Bobwhite quail.
and 2 bronze turkeys

I forgot to list the Ancona ducks!

 

[Amberjem]

apparently not deep enough. Just spoke with one of my co-workers who is an avid hunter. I am going to cram everyone into the coop for a few nights and bait my run with raw chicken and canned pet food (i think I have a can of tripe hidden in the back of my pantry for a few years now). Hopefully he'll sneak in through the same hole where he'll find the snare.

Partridge Chanteclers (going to add more in a few weeks)
1 Orpington Rooster (will be placed shortly)
1 gold laced wyandotte hen (will be placed shortly)
Cayuga ducks
Coturnix quail
Tennessee Red Quail (when the eggs hatch)
oh and almost forgot about the single Bobwhite quail.
and 2 bronze turkeys

I forgot to list the Ancona ducks!

ohhhh you got turkwys!!! I didnt see that.awesome I have been having soo much fun with the turkeys! I am super glad we got them..................did you hatch the turkeys? I'd love to see some pictures also are they toms or pullets or do you know yet? we have definitely decided that noodle is not a bronze turkey...but is a hen so figure she is a nantucket or whatever ya call em.......the size differnce is HUGE

 

[minihorse927]

 we need updated pictures on the isabels are they turning into lovely chickens? you said you had one isabel that has rose comb didnt you?

I've got a few brown split to Isabel rosecombs. All the Isabel are single comb.

 

[minihorse927]

wasnt that one of your projects to do rosecomb isabels?

yep.

 

[Amberjem]

apparently not deep enough. Just spoke with one of my co-workers who is an avid hunter. I am going to cram everyone into the coop for a few nights and bait my run with raw chicken and canned pet food (i think I have a can of tripe hidden in the back of my pantry for a few years now). Hopefully he'll sneak in through the same hole where he'll find the snare.

Partridge Chanteclers (going to add more in a few weeks)
1 Orpington Rooster (will be placed shortly)
1 gold laced wyandotte hen (will be placed shortly)
Cayuga ducks
Coturnix quail
Tennessee Red Quail (when the eggs hatch)
oh and almost forgot about the single Bobwhite quail.
and 2 bronze turkeys

I forgot to list the Ancona ducks!

the reason I asked about the wire because I dug 3 feet down and spread it...two feet in front from that to keep diggers out.......... I hope it is enough.........

 

[Amberjem]

I've got a few brown split to Isabel rosecombs. All the Isabel are single comb.

hahahah omg I hate to ask this but.......... what are the odds of them being split to isabel? I mean is it anything like the crap shoot with the blue/green egg gene? or will they all be split to isabel regardless?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Sheriff was just here. Said that we have the right to protect our property and left it at that.

@Amberjem f1 oliveegger is the first cross of blue and dark brown and f2 is breeding the f1 to another dark brown to keep the olive eggs in next gen and to try to get them a darker olive. Helps to keep track as crossing f1 with a different color will cause different results.

No more chickens have appeared.

Breeds we have currently:

Blue, Black/Black Splits and Lavender Ameraucanas
Araucanas (lf and bantam)
Cream Legbars
GDW and Wheaten Sulmtalers
Lav Orp over black Australorps
Silkies
EE's
Black/Blue Copper Marans
OEGB's (Self Blue, SDW, Brassy Back, Ginger Red, Lemon Blue, BBR)
A couple Welsummers and Seramas
Call ducks

And 5 Baby Ohiki

 

[vehve]

You guys move quickly... It's hard keeping up.

I was going to say that some signs of the blue gene on a cockerel might be a rose comb, and a tufty head. Out of our 4 chicks, only the cockerel looks like he would carry the blue gene. I'm seriously considering culling him, he's mainly just annoying and with his genes he won't make much of a meal. The girls don't carry the same tuft or comb as their mother does, so I think they will most probably be brown layers. It will be interesting to see what happens though. One of them is already looking slightly redder than the rest, at 13 weeks of age. I'm hoping for early laying. With the 19 hours of daylight we're currently getting, it might even happen.

 

[Amberjem]

Sheriff was just here. Said that we have the right to protect our property and left it at that.

@Amberjem f1 oliveegger is the first cross of blue and dark brown and f2 is breeding the f1 to another dark brown to keep the olive eggs in next gen and to try to get them a darker olive. Helps to keep track as crossing f1 with a different color will cause different results.

No more chickens have appeared.

Breeds we have currently:

Blue, Black/Black Splits and Lavender Ameraucanas
Araucanas (lf and bantam)
Cream Legbars
GDW and Wheaten Sulmtalers
Lav Orp over black Australorps
Silkies
EE's
Black/Blue Copper Marans
OEGB's (Self Blue, SDW, Brassy Back, Ginger Red, Lemon Blue, BBR)
A couple Welsummers and Seramas
Call ducks

And 5 Baby Ohiki

remind me again for th alphabet imapired whats oegb again?