Okies in the BYC The Original

[opal oe]

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So are these brooders, coops. What are they designed for.

They are super nice whatever they are!

I concur - very professionally made and quite attractive.

What do the circles on the feeder do?

That is plexglass the holes are for the bird to stick their head through to eat

 

[poultryand bees]

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gorgeous coloration - I don't know enough about the genetics of colors to totally understand - but I think you are saying that if you breed two of this color together, you will always get the opal color since it is recessive and won't be visible unless there are two of the recessive genes present.

 

[opal oe]

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gorgeous coloration - I don't know enough about the genetics of colors to totally understand - but I think you are saying that if you breed two of this color together, you will always get the opal color since it is recessive and won't be visible unless there are two of the recessive genes present.

That is correct

 

[poultryand bees]

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I concur - very professionally made and quite attractive.

What do the circles on the feeder do?

That is plexglass the holes are for the bird to stick their head through to eat

The plexiglass would likely keep the feed dry and prevent uninvited guests out of the feed - like the goats. I could have used something like that several years ago when we had a goat sharing the chicken coop with the hens. He preferred chicken feed to goat food.

 

[poultryand bees]

I am watching the weather in other parts of the country, where they are having snow blizzards - and in England where they are predicting the worst blizzard in recorded history. Hubby wants to use his "new" tractor and snow plow. I don't want to break ice in water dishes. I hope that we get some snow that doesn't stay around very long before the weather warms up again.

 

[mjgigax]

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Where in Choctaw? - lots of us out this way - if "Virginia is for Lovers", "Choctaw is for Chickens"

 

[mjgigax]

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Beautiful! and Very interesting breeding experiment.

 

[Mortos]

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You have found the best place with the best people! What kind of birds do you have??? Do you raise them for fun, for eggs or do you show????

I have 6 chickens left now from my original straight run of 16. Lost 2 to hawks, 5 to neighbors weenie dogs and 1 to a auto/ped on peebly road and 2 roosters sold at the swap meet. I now have 2 Dominique hens, 1 black Australorp hen, 1 EE hen, 1 Dominique rooster and 1 feathered Cochin Bantam rooster. I would like to pick up another 6 - 10 hens that are already laying. The process from chick to hen is too long for me to go through again for a while.

I live off of NE 23/Peebly.

 

[donnie]

anyone have any partridge rocks ............. ?

i got an idea

 

[Mortos]

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Heck ya. Where are ya, what kind and how much?