Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[SimpleJenn]

Definitely not a leghorn/marans cross. To achieve a olive egger you need to cross a blue egg layer normally Americaunas with a dark brown egg layer, normally Marans.. All a leghorn/marans cross will give you is light to medium tan/brown eggs. I am happy to hear you are open to a rooster, because I firmly believe you have one there. It is not the color of the comb or wattles, it is simply the fact you have wattles that young. With my marans and marans crosses that do not have silkie mixed in to throw things off males show themselves early. First sign is wattles popping around 2 weeks old.

Oh okay! And yeah, I kind of want one. Hubby says they're my chickens so I can keep whoever as long as they don't go after the kid (who isn't allowed in the run!)
The only bummer to them being a roo is no olive eggs haha. Time to come up with a boy name juuuust in case.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

I think since they are in your aviary you should collect the eggs so they can’t hatch any more, then slowly sell the birds you have so that you have a manageable flock size.

If you release them to the wild the fact they might succeed so well is reason not to. They could really change the natural balance of the other living things in your area. This is a historical and a current problem in lots of places.

Yeah like the house sparrows from here in the EU that are all over the US. I actually have away 3 pairs for free to someone local to me today! I'm now down to 2 pairs as I also put back some after a few of the breeding adults died recently. Here are the two pairs I have left.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

The solution seems simple. Take the eggs from them. Don't let them hatch.

But maybe I'm missing something.

Yeah I'm going to have to show you a photo of the aviary. It's like three more of me tall and they nest in the ivy do I can't really find their nest. The babies kinda jun show up out of nowhere. All I see is a zebra finch with nesting material and woosh its gone!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Here is the top of it, also the cockatiels are named Buck and Lucy!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Eggs eggs eggs! I have lots of eggs today! Pancake laud another egg today, and Mrs. Opaline started breeding!!!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Wow, that is an amazing aviary! No wonder they're happy enough to breed!

 

[rural mouse]

Yeah I'm going to have to show you a photo of the aviary. It's like three more of me tall and they nest in the ivy do I can't really find their nest. The babies kinda jun show up out of nowhere. All I see is a zebra finch with nesting material and woosh its gone!

Sounds like cameras might be helpful there.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Sounds like cameras might be helpful there.

I wish I could run electricity out there or I would have made a YouTube channel showing what my birds do all day

 

[notabitail]

I wish I could run electricity out there or I would have made a YouTube channel showing what my birds do all day

Extension cord. That's how electricity works on my coop cam.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I'm thinking of putting Blink cameras up for my coop cam! They have 2 year batteries and connect via wifi