Clap p 1
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I'm Clappy, a name high school students have me back in the 90's. Yes, I am old. I mentioned to my oldest daughter a few weeks ago that I was thinking about getting some chickens. She said I have some you can have. She has bantams and a friend of a friend had given her some more. She shows up a couple weeks later with a coop from tractor supply, feed, container for feed, feeder, waterer,bail of straw, and two rolls of green chicken wire. I am rural but neighbors dogs run loose so she knew I could have predtors, dogs, cats, raccoons, a pair of Turkey vultures, and some other kind of vulture, ect. While the men put the coop together we dug down about 6 " , placed chicken wire, covered it and when the coop was placed my daughter and I wired it all together.
I became the proud owner of a partridge cochin hen, a lighter color partridge marked hen, a red silkie hen, and a red cochin rooster from a porcelain de 'clear (I know I misspelled it but I can say right). After a couple of days we got an egg from the partridge hen. When I asked my daughter how old they are i had to laugh. The partridge and silkie are 5, the others hen is from someone else flock and the rooster is 18 months.
It's ok. Now her coop is back to the normal 5 and her chickens have room to breath. Momma gets used pets and again, it's ok. The best dog I've ever had is from another daughter.
In the mean time, I ordered some full size chicks for eggs. A four week old Austrawhite because of quantity, a Silver Gray Dorkin for winter eggs, a Blue Copper Maran for color. Wanted a rooster but they were sold out so I got another bcm hen. I have ordered a French Black Copper Maran rooster, a Silver Gray Dorkin rooster and an Americouna hen that I will be getting on the 25th of the month.
Soooo, I will have three coops. A meat and egg coop with the Dorkins and Austrawhite. A colored egg coop with the marans and Americounas (i know I'm spelling that wrong too). I'm lisdexic. Oh oh dislexic. And last but not least, a diet coop with my one laying b antam.
I was really excited to find the thread on blue genetics. I used to raise satin Angora rabbits and the genetics were much easier. It's always fun to learn.
I became the proud owner of a partridge cochin hen, a lighter color partridge marked hen, a red silkie hen, and a red cochin rooster from a porcelain de 'clear (I know I misspelled it but I can say right). After a couple of days we got an egg from the partridge hen. When I asked my daughter how old they are i had to laugh. The partridge and silkie are 5, the others hen is from someone else flock and the rooster is 18 months.
It's ok. Now her coop is back to the normal 5 and her chickens have room to breath. Momma gets used pets and again, it's ok. The best dog I've ever had is from another daughter.
In the mean time, I ordered some full size chicks for eggs. A four week old Austrawhite because of quantity, a Silver Gray Dorkin for winter eggs, a Blue Copper Maran for color. Wanted a rooster but they were sold out so I got another bcm hen. I have ordered a French Black Copper Maran rooster, a Silver Gray Dorkin rooster and an Americouna hen that I will be getting on the 25th of the month.
Soooo, I will have three coops. A meat and egg coop with the Dorkins and Austrawhite. A colored egg coop with the marans and Americounas (i know I'm spelling that wrong too). I'm lisdexic. Oh oh dislexic. And last but not least, a diet coop with my one laying b antam.
I was really excited to find the thread on blue genetics. I used to raise satin Angora rabbits and the genetics were much easier. It's always fun to learn.
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