Fuzzy's Farm

[NovaAman]

I gotta get the kids to bed. Jace has been getting to bed later and later. He is normally a night owl as it is, and he pushes the limits then is a crank meister when he gets home from school. Like today. Turd brained all the way.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Hey Fuzzy - I 've been talking to a lady in Washington who is helping me with my Marans and she told me she crossed her Spangled Russian Orloff with her Blue Americanas and she said they were the cutest chicks she has seen plus she sold everyone of them BEFORE she sold any of her other breeds. I guess people went crazy over them. I might try that if I find some Blue Americana's

Hmm. I may be interested, but i gotta see how these chicks i got now grow up color-wise. Most of my chicks got blue on them too! I was hoping to use them with the orloffs, if i could, because i don't know if a straight blue bird would still give the lacing/spangling . I'm keeping a particular eye on the cream colored one. If she and her brother stay cream, i may have something special! If they get red backs, not so much. Either way their colors are going to be cream and blue! Almost like the porcelain, except i'm sure a little black will show up since they are blues. I still have to research the orloff pattern, i think it's mahogony based, but that don't mean anything to me right now..........

This is one of my options for breeding . Idk what color to call him, but he has blue lacing and almost no black! Everything is charcoal and blue, except for black specks in the tail feathers.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Drat. Well, i'm having pie without you tomorrow

I got myself all worked up for it. I will make another for Fri, oh the agony of an extra pie. lol ......lol.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

yay! the frizzles look fabulous!

I hate my new pillow. My exmotherinlaw gave us four pillows- from Tony Little? Anyhow, they are like micro-bean bags. Seemed fabulous, but not really. Im back to using my feather pillow. I LOVE my feather pillow even though its all broken down and my husband says its flat. Its perfect,

The frizzle roo is one of my favorites!! He is like a puppy! He tries to sneak out everytime I open the coop/run doors, then he runs around flapping like crazy when he gets let out! LOL

Drat. Well, i'm having pie without you tomorrow

I got myself all worked up for it. I will make another for Fri, oh the agony of an extra pie. lol ......lol.

Mmmm... send some my way too please!

Noodle was the only one to hatch in my eggs from lovemychicklets. She is a sweetie but not a lap chicken. Nugget is my lap chicken (arucana)
Have I been spelling those wrong? arucana and amerucana? IDK...

Oh well...

I am a gotta see and hold the chicks to know whick ones I want... I think I will wait until CS
If you are coming next year and you would like to hatch some girls for me...

 

[teeville5]

Thanks, Fuzzy. I'll give it a try sometime this week and let you know how it turned out.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I am a gotta see and hold the chicks to know whick ones I want... I think I will wait until CS
If you are coming next year and you would like to hatch some girls for me...

Me too. sometimes bonding is a personal thing.

Thing is, she had MG. I have never vet tested, but i am certain because of the foamy eyes and the rattle in her lungs when it got cold. After reading a ton of info on it, and taking into consideration that i let my chickens out into the woods, i decided that IMO it wasn't worth it to cull because as long as i let them range it was likely the new ones would get it anyway, so i kept them. I loved her enough that i would have made a house chicken out of her had i been able! I have also brought birds home from the auction, and who knows what they tracked in. My birds are strong, happy, and vigorous but probably not what you want.

I apologize if that offends anyone, at least i am honest!

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Morning everyone!

It's a beautiful morning here - I wish I didn't have to go to work.

Fuzzy, I made your recipe for apple pie. It was so good! DH told me not to make it again because he just kept eating. Said his waist can't take it - LOL.

All I hear is how important ventilation is in the coop. This summer with 118 degree temps I cut 4 - 2'X3' windows on the north and south sides of the coop and then covered them with hardware cloth so we had air flow. Now, my problem is I don't know how much ventilation I should leave open for the winter. We do get wind and temps down into the single digits so I've got to cover them with something but I don't know how much to leave open. Everything I read says there shouldn't be drafts on the chicks. I'm thinking of covering the big holes with shutters or clear plastic and then cutting smaller holes in the very top of the coop on each end the size of floor vents and putting vent covers on them that can open and shut. Do you think two vents (probably 12X4 inches) would be enough ventilation for the winter? Or I could do 4 total...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Me too. sometimes bonding is a personal thing.

Thing is, she had MG. I have never vet tested, but i am certain because of the foamy eyes and the rattle in her lungs when it got cold. After reading a ton of info on it, and taking into consideration that i let my chickens out into the woods, i decided that IMO it wasn't worth it to cull because as long as i let them range it was likely the new ones would get it anyway, so i kept them. I loved her enough that i would have made a house chicken out of her had i been able! I have also brought birds home from the auction, and who knows what they tracked in. My birds are strong, happy, and vigorous but probably not what you want.

I apologize if that offends anyone, at least i am honest!

Why would I be offended? And yes, you are honest and that's wonderful.

 

[NovaAman]

Gigi, I unfortunetly can not answer this one for you... Why??

I built a winter run for the birds last year just before the snow flew. I have a ceiling vent cover on the vent that I have in the side of the coop, on the north wall. That is the only vent I have. The coop doors end up open nearly all day, all year around, into the summer coop so there is never an amonia build up. I am also an anal coop cleaner. Last year, I was a poop cleaning demon. I was always cleaning it up. Over the winter I was always cleaning the ducks coops. No more ducks... This year, I still only had that one vent, but all my birds ended up sleeping in the summer coop. SO, constant clear air and much cooler than the coop. The grow out coop wasn't used, but when it was for some reason, I had a hardware clothe door covering that I'd screw in and out so that door was never open either. It has a large vent in the back of it that no real wind could get too, but it does keep it aired out. That vent is in between the back wall of that coop and the north wall of the big coop. On the big coop there are also two 3 inch by 8 in gaps at the very top corners.. on the north and south walls.Those have tarp over them, but the air can still move because of the position of them and how the tarp goes over them, but not touching, leaves a gap... Oh... hard to explain, but bad air can still get out, no drafts/water can get in...

Now on the grow out coop, I have hole drilled all along the wall on upward angles, so rain can not run down the holes, and wind may go through a bit, but they are on the east facing wall. The dog house coop, now that one has no ventilation really. I had to rig "spacers" on the top two front corners where the clean out lid closes, so that way it has ventilation all the way around. I used to put in a stick, but after losing a pullet because I forgot one night after closing up... I did a permanent fix...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Gigi, I unfortunetly can not answer this one for you... Why??

I built a winter run for the birds last year just before the snow flew. I have a ceiling vent cover on the vent that I have in the side of the coop, on the north wall. That is the only vent I have. The coop doors end up open nearly all day, all year around, into the summer coop so there is never an amonia build up. I am also an anal coop cleaner. Last year, I was a poop cleaning demon. I was always cleaning it up. Over the winter I was always cleaning the ducks coops. No more ducks... This year, I still only had that one vent, but all my birds ended up sleeping in the summer coop. SO, constant clear air and much cooler than the coop. The grow out coop wasn't used, but when it was for some reason, I had a hardware clothe door covering that I'd screw in and out so that door was never open either. It has a large vent in the back of it that no real wind could get too, but it does keep it aired out. That vent is in between the back wall of that coop and the north wall of the big coop. On the big coop there are also two 3 inch by 8 in gaps at the very top corners.. on the north and south walls.Those have tarp over them, but the air can still move because of the position of them and how the tarp goes over them, but not touching, leaves a gap... Oh... hard to explain, but bad air can still get out, no drafts/water can get in...

Now on the grow out coop, I have hole drilled all along the wall on upward angles, so rain can not run down the holes, and wind may go through a bit, but they are on the east facing wall. The dog house coop, now that one has no ventilation really. I had to rig "spacers" on the top two front corners where the clean out lid closes, so that way it has ventilation all the way around. I used to put in a stick, but after losing a pullet because I forgot one night after closing up... I did a permanent fix...

Actually that helps a lot. I have a lot of hardware cloth covered windows and my door is always open also. I also clean the coop all the time but I'm thinking I'm going to add poop boards under the roost with PDZ in them that I can scoop out each morning. That would help with cleaning. I'm thinking I'll cover the North large windows with clear heavy plastic but leave the south open but have some type of roll down covers in case the weather/wind gets really bad. And maybe go ahead and put floor vents in the top of the gable ends. If your birds were happy in Michigan with lots of open ventilation then mine should be fine in OK. This is our first winter so we are kind of living and learning... We also get lots of wind/tornados in early spring so I'm trying to think ahead a bit.