Mama's Flying Penguins and Ramblings

[MysticUniKitty]

So update!
One i have to do a search every time i want to post here. Blah!

Two.. Bunny passed away very big bummer!

Almost all our pullets that were at POL are now laying!! I'm get 4-5 eggs a day!! I had 13 pullets and one hen. So hen is laying and i think 5 or 6 pullets are laying.
The first ones were my "barred rocks" and there was some hilarity when i saw that they were all laying white eggs! I looked at GT (she's still the social one) then looked at her egg... back and forth till she looked at me, looked at the egg and then ran off cackling! I felt very much laughed at...

So in my coop brooder i have a roo marans, 4 roo Australorps, 1 Australorp pullet, and maybe two pullet Amerucanas. Once the girls are a bit bigger I'll mix in with current big flock, boys will be grown and a backup roo might be selected. I'm not keeping mean ones so we shall see...

Inside brooder 5 EEs and 4 black either sexlinks or EEs, I'm thinking maybe one or two are roos but we'll see.

My favorite pastime is standing on my porch scattering mealworms in the grass for the bigger flock... it's so funny and cute! Specially since Toasted started crowing!!! He's being super sweet to his girls! Which are all the younger girls, not Cajun... she needs no man

pics!

 

[MysticUniKitty]

So excited!!! My girls gave me SIX eggs today!!!

3 white, one beige, and 2 tan/brown!!

 

[drumstick diva]

aw poor little Bunny

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Someone is not the breed we thought they were

Got our first green egg and it was not from eagle!!!
These are some of the candidates for who might have laid it
Syrup
Dijon
Chase
Yoshi
We thought they were Jaerhon, orp/br mix, isa brown, and cinnamon queen.... so someone is mislabeled! Oops!

Also Mr Toasted is loosing his feathers... I'm wondering if he's going into first molt? Or if he got in a tussle? I'm not sure.

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Well... Update:

We learned Dijon is our green egg layer, i have a dark brown layer and i thought that was Sundae but now not sure... they keep hiding eggs from me!!! I went from 10 a day to six, so I might need to go egg hunting! I have 6 acres!

So I wasn't sure about incubating our flock eggs but i found many fertile when making breakfast and i have tons right now so... we are set to see if we can't hatch 9 of our own flock eggs!
2 green, 2 cream/light brown, two normal brown, one variegated coloring, 2 dark brown colored eggs! We'll see in 3 days if fertile then go from there.


The hatched EEs, black sexlink, light brahma and one wyandotte are getting bigger!!

Today I'm going to try and fix hardware cloth so they can go out into the run, and then I'll start working on turning Our late horse's stall into winter coop for the bigger flock, while we build the permanent open coop for them in our pasture. It'll have 4 pens: one breeder, one just layers, one grow outs/broody, one bachelor pad. And it'll be set up so we can add more pens later if needed.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Hopefully I can just join in here.

Love the thread already. Beautiful birds.

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Hopefully I can just join in here.

Love the thread already. Beautiful birds.

Yes!! Feel free!!

 

[MysticUniKitty]

I have baby spiders!!!! Lol!!

Also learned Cajun, oldest, is in molt! Poor thing! Time for some vitamin and protein boosts! I'll try and get mealworms this week.
I have tons of eggs but not many people buying I'm going to be sick of eggs for meals soon. Making farm cards to try and spread the word!

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Development! 4 of tge 8 that are developing. Two more days to tell on the others!


And becuz its so cool... video!

I'm so excited for these babies! Hoping they all make it to hatch day!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Sending great hatching vibes to all who need them