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chiques chicks said:
Is the covered area a coop and does it go down to ground level or is there space under it for shade?
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The covered area is built right in as a single unit. The whole thing runs over open ground. I use it year round and put old sheets or tarps or feed bags over the wire to shut out wind. I'll get more pics today
 
stake said:
Auro:

Good to hear your chooks are going to a good home....I have had discussions on other threads of breeding out bad traits VS keeping the good ones....always a balancing act, and I am beginning to understand how many generations it take to build a quality line....I am trying (in the smallest Backyard) to get a CCL and Dorking lines established...and keep my BC Marans and a few others going for variety....hope your new boy has the 'stuff' you are looking for....
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Thanks, I hope he does too. The two that I'm selling both carry the recessive wheaten gene and to try to breed that out would mean testing the babies by breeding to wheaten which would create more wheaten splits.... I'm not up for all of that. Hopefully this works out the way I see it in my head lol. Good luck with your lines :)
 
Kinmera said:
chiques chicks said:
Is the covered area a coop and does it go down to ground level or is there space under it for shade?
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The covered area is built right in as a single unit. The whole thing runs over open ground. I use it year round and put old sheets or tarps or feed bags over the wire to shut out wind. I'll get more pics today
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Very nice! My tractors are not nearly as upscale, no roost bars here....but we just use them for meat birds so no roosts needed. We take cattle panels and attach them to 2x6's. Hardware cloth along th bottom 2 feet, wildlife netting and tarps along the rest. Not very predator proof, a raccoon would rip right through the wildlife netting, but we never lost a bird and I attribute that to my Bella.

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Auroradream26 said:
stake said:
Auro:

Good to hear your chooks are going to a good home....I have had discussions on other threads of breeding out bad traits VS keeping the good ones....always a balancing act, and I am beginning to understand how many generations it take to build a quality line....I am trying (in the smallest Backyard) to get a CCL and Dorking lines established...and keep my BC Marans and a few others going for variety....hope your new boy has the 'stuff' you are looking for....
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Thanks, I hope he does too. The two that I'm selling both carry the recessive wheaten gene and to try to breed that out would mean testing the babies by breeding to wheaten which would create more wheaten splits.... I'm not up for all of that. Hopefully this works out the way I see it in my head lol. Good luck with your lines :)
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I've got my BC Marans to a pretty good place confirmation wise, nice tail sets, no sprigs, ect... But NOW my egg color is off. I have no idea how to fix this problem without adding new birds and the last time I tried that, I ended up with a bunch of problems I was not willing to breed into my birds (non feathered shanks, yellow in feet, high tail set, arrrgh!). I feel like giving up. Maybe I'll hang in there and pick up a nice bird at a show...
 
Does anybody in the Western half of the state have a brooder setup I could borrow? Mostly looking to borrow feeder, waterer, heat lamp and box. I'll buy food, grit and bedding. If you're able to help thanks.
 
Oh yeah I'm looking to get somewhere between 3-9 chickens....depending on how many the kids and wife pick out....and me.....and how cute and fluffy they are....and.....oh nevermind you guys probably understand already.
 
troyer said:
I don't know what it is either, but others have said that it's henbit and that chickens will eat it right up. I just thought it was a weed.
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Well, I guess I'm putting the chicken tractor in the wrong place! I will get right on it, cause it's covering a hill.
 

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