Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[TillyPeeps]

Lol, I'm hoping to have them set up THIS year! I just managed to create a makeshift separation pen for the CCL. No clue why I didn't think of it sooner since it was so easy but I guess it wouldn't really have worked out until now since it's warmer out. A lot of people want the cream legbars so I'll be hatching out their eggs and riding on them and the turkeys for the rest of the funding for the bigger pens. I already have a few hundred saved up towards them but I'm going to wait until I save a couple more, borrow a truck and pick everything I need up at once

Then your black ameraucana roos can have CG, Rhodebar, Marans, and ameraucana girls all together. They will be busy.

Maybe you want BCM roo over lgebar girls for Olive egger sexlink?

 

[emorems0]

Tried to candle our turkey eggs today (day 14), the shells aren't very dark but they are really thick... so hard to see anything. I tried candling a couple days ago and I thought they were all clear so I stopped to wait until dark so I could hopefully see better, and then I forgot and forgot and forgot. So today I candles them under the quilt on my bed! Lol. I could see a shadow/darker area in most of the eggs and movement (maybe?) in a few.

I should be able to add another clutch of eggs to the incubator today, right? The two sets will be 2 weeks apart.

 

[BullChick]

Fisherlady and Radioman are the greatest!! I never felt comfortable letting my flock free range. Since the adolescents she brought to me were used to roaming free, I waited a few weeks then let them out. Now I have a bunch of chicks and ducklings roaming around my property. When I walk outside, they come running for me.
I know that I have said this before, but if it weren't for those two, I would not get to experience the awesome feeling of having my chickens meet me at the door. I wouldn't get to see their excitement as they bust out in the morning. I can't really think coherently right now to express how awesome it is to have free range fowl (sinuses are kicking me in the head). But I know that if I had gotten birds from anyone else, I never would have let them free range every day like this. If at all.
Of course, those two are awesome for other reasons as well. But I'm sure all of you know how great they are. LOL! Okay, the newbies don't know her husband is Radioman. Now ya do.

 

[Lelanae]

Being able to sex them at hatch but still look a lot like a black Ameraucana is huge, so those BSL sell really well here too. I have a pen of pure California Greys setup and will start hatching them soon. The next chicken train run I can send some of those eggs so you can hatch some CG pullets. I keep them in with the Ams, it's trivial of course to tell which eggs are which - the white ones are sex links the blue ones are pure Ams. You have to separate them in the hatcher and brooder of course, but needing just one pen with a black Am roo over CG's and BBS hens is very efficient. Next year I expect to use a Lavender roo over the CG's, as well as Lav and Black Am hens. Then I will hatch lavender and black (splt for lav) from the blue eggs and the hotly selling blue egg black sexlinks from the white eggs.

Ooooo! Does that mean you might be selling a lavender sexlink blue egg layer next year!?! Here is my little boy with one of your blacks--they are growing up so beautifully--friendly and sooty!

They were looking like little crows for a bit! I have all three sleeping in the coop now--separated from the big girls. I find that sleeping in the coop for a couple weeks teaches them to go in on their own at night--also all my chickees come when they are called!

 

[fisherlady]

Fisherlady and Radioman are the greatest!! I never felt comfortable letting my flock free range. Since the adolescents she brought to me were used to roaming free, I waited a few weeks then let them out. Now I have a bunch of chicks and ducklings roaming around my property. When I walk outside, they come running for me.
I know that I have said this before, but if it weren't for those two, I would not get to experience the awesome feeling of having my chickens meet me at the door. I wouldn't get to see their excitement as they bust out in the morning. I can't really think coherently right now to express how awesome it is to have free range fowl (sinuses are kicking me in the head). But I know that if I had gotten birds from anyone else, I never would have let them free range every day like this. If at all.
Of course, those two are awesome for other reasons as well. But I'm sure all of you know how great they are. LOL! Okay, the newbies don't know her husband is Radioman. Now ya do.

LOL
I appreciate the thanks, but sharing is part of the pleasure of having the birds....it was cool to see them all roaming the other day, and I still chuckle at the memory of the group of youngsters moving like a wave from place to place. We are able to see how the birds matured and it is really cool to see how the second generation turned out.
Now I am paranoid that the eggs develop and you get yourself a broody or two from the group!

 

[hippiechickX4]

And of course I got a few baby pictures to share...

And teenagers were 'helping' me build a new bench in their paddock, inspecting the boards to make sure I had them on straight! LOL

Teens also checking over Mindy to see if she has any goodies!


One of the adult hens checking another bench build...

What is the big white and black chicken in the beginning pics? Is it a Delaware? Believe we got Delawares by mistake, but they turn into gorgeous birds.

 

[hippiechickX4]

Anyone know anything about Jersey Giants? I think our black austrolorp is actually a Jersey giant. It is the same age as the other chicks, but is actually one of the smallest of the bunch. first pic is 2 weeks old. Other 2 are from today.

 

[fisherlady]

What is the big white and black chicken in the beginning pics? Is it a Delaware? Believe we got Delawares by mistake, but they turn into gorgeous birds.

She is a Light Sussex, the color pattern is called Columbian, I think....the pattern is available in Plymouth Rocks, Delawares and Orpingtons, I believe, and probably many other breeds also.

 

[Lelanae]

She is a Light Sussex, the color pattern is called Columbian, I think....the pattern is available in Plymouth Rocks, Delawares and Orpingtons, I believe, and probably many other breeds also.

I hear Sussex have amazing personalities? What do you think?

 

[BullChick]

LOL
I appreciate the thanks, but sharing is part of the pleasure of having the birds....it was cool to see them all roaming the other day, and I still chuckle at the memory of the group of youngsters moving like a wave from place to place. We are able to see how the birds matured and it is really cool to see how the second generation turned out.
Now I am paranoid that the eggs develop and you get yourself a broody or two from the group!

See? You're so awesome, you're wishing a never ending bout of chicken math on me!