Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

there is definitely satisfaction is a hard days work. I built a chalkboard in my workshop that hangs on the kitchen wall. DW writes her 'Hunny Do' list on it and there is also satisfaction in crossing items off the chalkboard too.

My mother-in-law is nuts about mowing the lawn. She comes out here all the time and mows our lawn, sometimes when we arent even home, because she enjoys it so much! thats fine with me. Thats 2+ hours a week i can spend doing better things

My DW would never use a chalkboard for a hunny do list, She knows I would just erase the chore without doing it.



Mistablue I hope you just have a few chicks that failed to thrive, There are some that no matter what you do they will die. Maybe the paralyzed one got into some lead point or other thing that causes neurological damage.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Do Barred Rock chicks develop their coloring immediately or more over time?

I have two pullets, born 09 May, only the front half is "barred".

They should be Barred with their first feathers. It sounds like you got something crossed up, like something barred with something black.

 

[Minniechickmama]

A close up of the two. My DD named them Paint and Brush

They are neither a Barred or cross, they are hatchery type Silver Laced Wyandottes. LOL

 

[Minniechickmama]

I found a Splash Laced Wyandotte hen dead yesterday, but I think she just finally succumbed to the foot problem she had that I couldn't get rid of. She was also 4 years old and all the birds have been panting most of the day. So, I wasn't surprised.
Then today, I was surprised to find a dead Buckeye hen. She didn't have marks or anything, so she had something else wrong. I hadn't noticed anything with wrong yesterday and I watch my birds pretty closely each day. I would have been tempted to open her up, but didn't do it because I was cleaning pens and moving sand it when I found her. It sucks, but the good thing was that she was going to be culled anyway.

Speaking of culling, I have been selling a few birds lately, and my feed consumption is going down. I like it.
It has been a good year for selling birds quick though, which I really like. I post pullet ads and they are gone quick. The cull roosters, old hens and cockerels I posted the other day were gone the next. I just moved a couple groups to outdoor pens though and I just have sold the pullets young because they are both almost 100% cockerels. That I don't like.

Well, more work in the hot, hot sun tomorrow, but first I have to take our tom cat to get the deed done, and take his brother/son to get his shots. The little one is an orange tabby tom named Milo. He is my little buddy and I just love him. My daughter is jealous because I just pick him up and snuggle him and he just loves it. If she tries, he paws and nips at her to play. Even my animals know who the mommy is

 

[KlopKlop]

Ever seen speckled eggs from an australop? The eggs have been pale due to a stress molt I am helping them recover from so maybe this is just the color coming back?

 

[duluthralphie]

Ever seen speckled eggs from an australop? The eggs have been pale due to a stress molt I am helping them recover from so maybe this is just the color coming back?

I get that egg all the time, I had no idea it was from my BA's. Of course I have no idea which bird lays which egg. If I did I would congratulate my porcelain egg layer,,,

 

[scandiafowl]

They are neither a Barred or cross, they are hatchery type Silver Laced Wyandottes.  LOL

Thanks! They are beautiful birds, and my breed repertoire is still growing.

 

[scandiafowl]

They are neither a Barred or cross, they are hatchery type Silver Laced Wyandottes.  LOL

What makes them a hatchery-type?

 

[Minniechickmama]

What makes them a hatchery-type?

You can tell from coloring for starters, plus the heads are too narrow for decent breeder type. Check these ones out:
The hatchery birds typically come out with a lot more black or a lot more white on them and rarely have the good lacing on them. I would watch them too. I would say 90% of the hens I am told about that attack other birds and bloody them up are SLWs from hatcheries. They are beautiful, but I would only add them to my flock if I found a good breeder to get them from, and that is really tough to find.

Ralphie - Spots are just like clogged or irritated 'ink jets' in their system. I get speckled sometimes from my Buckeyes, Welsummers and Cochins, even though most of the time they are an even color. When they are transitioning to molt or out of molt or as pullets is the most often I see them. I love speckles on eggs. One of my Ameraucanas has darker speckles on hers always, but she lays a greenish egg rather than blue like she should.

 

[KlopKlop]

I think we can all related to this in the morning
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