Fugly Farm

[igorsMistress]

More Tweens

 

[N F C]

Can you grow tomatoes year round IM?

Love the coloring of the Tween Turken, she's a beauty!

 

[igorsMistress]

The Wee Ones. They went outside today. There are 2 that had pasty butt so I put some ACV in their water today.

 

[BlueBaby]

Looking good, there @igorsMistress

 

[N F C]

The Wee Ones. They went outside today. There are 2 that had pasty butt so I put some ACV in their water today.
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If you had to count (like if someone twisted your arm ), how many chicks/chickens would you say you had in total?

 

[igorsMistress]

If you had to count (like if someone twisted your arm ), how many chicks/chickens would you say you had in total?

24 total: 13 chicks, 7 Tweens and 4 older pullets. 5 of those Tweens are boys, 3 are destined for freezer camp.

 

[igorsMistress]

Can you grow tomatoes year round IM?

Love the coloring of the Tween Turken, she's a beauty!

Almost, it was a donor so I'm letting it go until it gives up. I can grow things here pretty much any time but summer.

 

[igorsMistress]

Currently the main coop houses the 4 winds and the tweens. By late December or early January I plan to process 3/5 cockerels in the tween group, keeping the penciled Turken and Dorking mix for breeding. By then I should be able to tell cockerels from pullets in this last hatch and I plan to move the pullets to the main coop and keep the cockerels in the mini coop for a short time before processing depending on size.

I've been working on getting the tweens out to the big yard a bit. Everyone loves wet feed mixed with a bit of scratch and bugs so I've been giving it in the evening on the patio. The boys are starting to show signs of wrangling for the top spot but nothing crazy so far.

I'm getting one egg a day, 2 if I'm lucky.

 

[igorsMistress]

Looking up through the Willow Acacia. It's blooming and buzzing with bees. The chickens like to eat the leaves.

 

[Compost King]

Those 3/4 Dorkings have a really nice Silver Duckwing pattern. You could probably get away with breeding and calling them Silver Grey Dorkings. According to the Chicken Calculator 1 in 8 should have that pattern, and from the 30 or so I hatched out none of the female came out that nice the ones with that pattern had darker heads, I do not believe I have a male that came out with that pattern unless it had serious leakage. You ended up with the best 2 created from that breeding.