Larkwell Valley (2023)

[JacinLarkwell]

No, it's not. I've been looking at at least 5 when I go window shopping on Zillow, but with the mammals I want to have, I'm thinking I'll need at least 10. Probably at least 12 is more likely

Although.... I could probably use thr same building to house my rabbits and quail in. The quail would like it since it will be a nicer building due to an angora or two for rabbits

 

[Amer]

I just don't have a spot to put them that keeps them safe and not with the chickens anymore.

Same, that is why mine are meat birds, currently. Why do broad breasted poop stains have to be so sweet?

I also want to get into geese and possibly guineas, and back into turkeys. I miss my turkey flock, I just don't have a spot to put them that keeps them safe and not with the chickens anymore.

Maybe if @Amer ends up making bantam turkeys a thing in the US, it will be more likely when I eventually have space for them

in 15 years, maybe.
First I have to get a master’s degree in plant breeding and genetics, then a job in plant breeding, then a job, then a house with acreage…

 

[NagemTX]

The Spitz before I moved her.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The Spitz before I moved her.

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Blends right in!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well what the heck are you?!

 

[NagemTX]

View attachment 3519464Well what the heck are you?!

All I got is blue or lavender.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

All I got is blue or lavender.

It's a blue something, which means it's not out of my laughing male. But that leaves my araucana and two mixed males since they all have blue.

I'm Thinking that it's out of one of my mixed males and my orloff before she went broody. It's definitely chunky, that thing wasn't hatched this morning. It's got a sibling with clean legs, but since both my mixed males only have 1 feather legged gene each, that wouldn't surprise me

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That one and a new hatch got thrown in the incubator over night, they were left out of the box, and got chilled. I have to move my broodies out when they get close to hatching, I spotted a mouse in their current house and I'm thinking that could be part of the issues with my high losses.

I moved the spitzhauben into the coop with Jezebel, the Phoenix and cochin, and let Brahma mama out to free up some room. She went back with her shed flock, so we'll see how that goes with her chick.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Cheese with her fosters. I need to clean her pen out and probably clip her nails, she keeps dumping their water and mash in her excitement.

Dark one is the araucana I hatched from @ColtHandorf