Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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Just an Easter Egger. One of these, but not sure which one.
My very very dark laying Olive Egger is molting, so I am not getting eggs from her.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Send them to all of your friends of course!

Most are not fertile. My roosters are penned separately unless I am breeding and hatching. I have only one rooster in the layers coop, a Black Copper Marans with 40 hens.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Send them to all of your friends of course!

Most are not fertile. My roosters are penned separately unless I am breeding and hatching. I have only one rooster in the layers coop, a Black Copper Marans with 40 hens.

Kathy, do you pen your roosters together or do they each have a seperate pen?

 

[kathyinmo]

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Kathy, do you pen your roosters together or do they each have a seperate pen?

I have 3 pens of roosters right now. One pen has 22 roosters that will processed in a couple weeks. I also have 2 adjoining pens opened up into one, and I had 19 roosters in there. Since then I have removed some and penned them in with breeders, so I now have only 11 boys in there.

In all my experimenting I have found that the males do just fine together, as long as when you make the move you do it all at once. No new ones come in after they are penned. It is best that the location they move in to is a new home to them all. Meaning, no one can claim his home is being invaded.

Really though, I don't have a problem with pens of roosters.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Kathy, do you pen your roosters together or do they each have a seperate pen?

I have 3 pens of roosters right now. One pen has 22 roosters that will processed in a couple weeks. I also have 2 adjoining pens opened up into one, and I had 19 roosters in there. Since then I have removed some and penned them in with breeders, so I now have only 11 boys in there.

In all my experimenting I have found that the males do just fine together, as long as when you make the move you do it all at once. No new ones come in after they are penned. It is best that the location they move in to is a new home to them all. Meaning, no one can claim his home is being invaded.

Really though, I don't have a problem with pens of roosters.

Good to know.

Jake - I'll get some current pictures in the morning.

 

[The Sheriff]

My brooder babies (a little over two weeks old) were stinking up the place so I moved them outside for the day. I'll bring them back in at night until they are big enough to be outside permanently.

The first order of business was to start the long dig to China. Or, were they mooning me? Hmmmmm,

 

[Happy Chooks]

I vote for mooning.

 

[NotAFarm]

I vote for mooning too..................and speaking of mooning........

whose fluffy, mooning butt has taken the "place of honor" next to the exhausted Audun?

That's right.........our Kella pic of the week has her claiming the choice roosting spot next to "the man" himself. The older Wyandottes hog his attention all day but they can't get their fluffy butts up in the rafters to roost so little miss opportunistic is moving in!!

You go girl!!!

 

[The Sheriff]

You go girl!

 

[kathyinmo]

Vote # 3 for mooning here!

GO KELLA! Love that girl!