Fugly Farm

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It's time to start prepping for summer temps. I stapled the shade cloth to the table in places where it was detached. The flock gets fed near this table, and in the past my birds would spend time under it for shade during summer. These days it's a pass through area that gives shade, mostly relief for their feet from the hot ground. I'm drawing plans for building a chunnel from shade cloth and pvc pipe to use on the patio this year, and if the box fan is too decrepit to use I'll need to consider other options for the misting station.

Using the picnic table like that is a great idea! If you make that chunnel, I hope you'll show us how you do it...I've always found those interesting.

 

[igorsMistress]

Using the picnic table like that is a great idea! If you make that chunnel, I hope you'll show us how you do it...I've always found those interesting.

I'll post pics of the process and when it's done. It looks pretty simple so I'm going to do it myself.

 

[igorsMistress]

There's definitely a newbie laying, the little egg is brown.

 

[BlueBaby]

@igorsMistress My incubator has temporarily been unplugged now, at least for a week or two? I have 8 naked neck's, and the 1 BCM down in the brooder.

 

[igorsMistress]

@igorsMistress My incubator has temporarily been unplugged now, at least for a week or two? I have 8 naked neck's, and the 1 BCM down in the brooder.

Very good
I'm done for the year after this hatch. All 8 eggs are looking great and I still have 13 chickens. Igor wants to keep all the meatbird girls through summer for the eggs, then hatch a large batch of Nn in spring and sell some chicks. That's a lot of birds to carry through summer so we'll see.

 

[BlueBaby]

Very good
I'm done for the year after this hatch. All 8 eggs are looking great and I still have 13 chickens. Igor wants to keep all the meatbird girls through summer for the eggs, then hatch a large batch of Nn in spring and sell some chicks. That's a lot of birds to carry through summer so we'll see.

You know some that hatch will be boy's for your Sunday dinner.

 

[igorsMistress]

You know some that hatch will be boy's for your Sunday dinner.

Yes, I know but I'm hoping for at least a 50/50 hatch if not heavier on the girl side. We may hatch one more batch from the meaties in late summer but I'm hoping not. These older Nn girls are a good weight on the hoof.

 

[BlueBaby]

I'll have to get busy over here with building the new coop and run after all for my next hatch, because they will be a different breed that I decided not to mix with my NN's. Well, at least to keep a flock with the pure breed of them anyways. The lady is getting ready to do a fertility test run on her hen's that just started getting back to laying.

 

[igorsMistress]

Candled eggs this morning. All look good, veins and lots of movement.

 

[BlueBaby]

Candled eggs this morning. All look good, veins and lots of movement.

Good luck! I hope that they all make it to lockdown and hatch!