Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

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Bard seems to have a bigger brain.

One looks like a white wyandotte...

 

[bgmathteach]

Oh I am so eggcited to see them! Does meyers have a minimum per breed order? Or can you mix and match?

I am getting some from Meyer and some from McMurray (McMurray is one of the few that carry Dark Cornish - and seem to have them more true to standards -though still far from SOP )

Neither had a min. per breed order - just a min for shipping. Thank goodness, as a couple - again, in early Jan - only had 1 female or 2 or 3 straight run - if any left. I had really hoped to get a couple of McMurrays true blue whiting - nope, at the time, there wasn't a single pullet available until sometime in June. They do update the numbers throughout the season (i.e. laying better than predicted...they always start conservatively), but I should have ordered late Nov. when their catalog came out - but I wasn't sure of everything yet, as I didn't know what most of the current pullets would lay. Turns out I only have 1 blue egg layer right now - a few very light green - and blue is the one I can't 'make' with crosses...and I think my EE boy has green gene's, not blue, as it seems all of his offspring - including the ones that were with him and a blue laying EE are green. A bluish green - but green and pale at that.

 

[bgmathteach]

She is still doing ok then in the barn - I was thinking of her today.

Yes. Making a cage isn't going to work. I think what I will end up doing is closing off the entire top of the manger with dog exercise panels....and making sure that the one on the end with the bin will also have the 'door' to the exercise pen. There is enough height ( ) between the top of the manger and her improvised, bolted in feed bin that I am pretty sure something won't be able to reach through and get her (unless, of course she stands up tall - which when frightened - though the safest thing would be to crouch down, is not a normal thing for them to do. I may have to fasten a bit of plywood directly to the dog panel over her nest, too.

 

[bgmathteach]

Noooo!
I like to get my OWN broody!

Oh, that is good! I was wondering how you were going to incubate the eggs yourself without cracking them!!!

 

[bgmathteach]

I take that back:
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Ah, but it listened too much to @featherhead007

Speckled sussex = speckled suspects which must mean behind 'bars'

 

[rural mouse]

I am getting some from Meyer and some from McMurray (McMurray is one of the few that carry Dark Cornish - and seem to have them more true to standards -though still far from SOP )

Neither had a min. per breed order - just a min for shipping. Thank goodness, as a couple - again, in early Jan - only had 1 female or 2 or 3 straight run - if any left. I had really hoped to get a couple of McMurrays true blue whiting - nope, at the time, there wasn't a single pullet available until sometime in June. They do update the numbers throughout the season (i.e. laying better than predicted...they always start conservatively), but I should have ordered late Nov. when their catalog came out - but I wasn't sure of everything yet, as I didn't know what most of the current pullets would lay. Turns out I only have 1 blue egg layer right now - a few very light green - and blue is the one I can't 'make' with crosses...and I think my EE boy has green gene's, not blue, as it seems all of his offspring - including the ones that were with him and a blue laying EE are green. A bluish green - but green and pale at that.

Twirp is a Whiting. She's got personality the size of Hector in that tiny little body, but lays extra large eggs, so has been laying thin shell/shell less eggs at only 3. I would love more like her....laying blue eggs the size of Cheetah's daughters (small). If I can get just 3 good shell eggs from her, I'm getting a small incubator for them...unless someone is broody

 

[Marie2020]

Morning Marie princess is looking good!

Ok time to do chores it’s 4:40am…

Yes, as beautiful and mucky as ever.

She had a lovely day yesterday, she was sun bathing right next to her cat, he was on the chair and she was beside him on the patio. I'm sad I didn't get a photo of them, she moved as I grabbed my phone

 

[Marie2020]

Or surnames....given names all being Jane. Doing a search for mysteries with Jane: Jane Austen mysteries, Jane Doe, authors: Jane Harper, Jane Hinchey, Jane Langton, Jane Smiley....

In addition to the aforementioned Janes

or lady Jane

 

[Marie2020]

Good morning Princess!

Good afternoon

 

[BY Bob]

I am getting some from Meyer and some from McMurray (McMurray is one of the few that carry Dark Cornish - and seem to have them more true to standards -though still far from SOP )

Neither had a min. per breed order - just a min for shipping. Thank goodness, as a couple - again, in early Jan - only had 1 female or 2 or 3 straight run - if any left. I had really hoped to get a couple of McMurrays true blue whiting - nope, at the time, there wasn't a single pullet available until sometime in June. They do update the numbers throughout the season (i.e. laying better than predicted...they always start conservatively), but I should have ordered late Nov. when their catalog came out - but I wasn't sure of everything yet, as I didn't know what most of the current pullets would lay. Turns out I only have 1 blue egg layer right now - a few very light green - and blue is the one I can't 'make' with crosses...and I think my EE boy has green gene's, not blue, as it seems all of his offspring - including the ones that were with him and a blue laying EE are green. A bluish green - but green and pale at that.

Blue layers are very hard to come by. At least in my experience.