I am going to visit family for a couple weeks the end of April into May. We figure it may be the last time I will be able to make the long trip. It's getting too hard on me to travel clear across the US. So by the end of May I hope to set my first eggs in the incubator. Then the pullets will be a year old also. I am still trying to find the Blcm laying eggs on the ground. She lays a really nice egg. If I can figure out which one. I will post her and her egg. See what you think of them.
that will be great .
Thank you! I am glad you are finally settling in your new place. You have a nice setup! I wish we lived where the weather was nice like Australia. The cold is getting to me.
thank you Australia has a nice peoples and lovely weather . I m about 10 walk from the beach and 5 min walk from the lake .surrounded by gorgeous forest . I don t even go to the shop ,peoples do that for me . I m always in the forest building pens and garden bed .have a lot work , many breeding pens to build .
Thank you very much for all the details!looking forward to see they photos .
cuckoo marans if it is pure will breed true .they just haven t reach they purity stage .
the reason they still throwing Black copper is because the breeding rooster they are working with is a dark cuckoo not a double barred pure cuckoo .
the cuckoo strain Silver or Golden a hen is always dark cuckoo . mean she only have a singler cuckoo gene B/b+( B stand for a barring or a cuckoo gene) but the rooster if pure will have a double factor .2 barring/cukoo genes ( B/B) if he is not a pure than he will only have a single barring/cuckoo gene like a hen.
if we breed a dark cuckoo rooster to a cuckoo hen/hens we will have 25%pure cuckoo ( double factor B/B) and they will be cockerels ,the other 75% will all be dark cuckoos (B/b+ pullets and cockerels)
here a photos of one of my dark cuckoo rooster Rashad he is Silver/Golden F2.
I will be breeding him back to a Black copper to keep the dark eggs genes .I will only get 50% of his progeny cuckoo they will be all dark cuckoo but with better copper
this guy hatched from very dark egg .his mother is a Blue copper marans and his father is F1 Dark cuckoo
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I sprout lentles in mason jars. They love it and it only takes 3 days from start to finish. And cheap!
Sounds like paradise to me! We live in Canada, and winter just drags on forever. We have a beautiful 10 acres bordering a creek and some forested area, also a 10 min walk to a lake For fishing or canoeing. We just moved in December. The house is very unfinished still, but I am so thankful to be here. Just need to build a chicken barn soon!
Thanks! I will really have to look into what all I can grow. I seen where they used wild rice but it was expensive. I want something that can handle our cold. So I may be limited to like a dear mix or something. Idk it will have to be able to come up through the hardware cloth. I don't want to have to keep planting it either.
