Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[fisherlady]

Ok, will be dropping some off in a bit...we leave for vacation tonight so I can't stay to chat long...
I have 3 more miles to finish on my exercise bike and then cool down...so probably be around 1.
Do you have a sharpie for marking them?

And fire up your incubator...I am bringing enough that you can incubate some at the same time to provide the broodies with replacements for any clears and graft a few chicks to them at hatch.

 

[chxmama]

I finally got some pics of my latest portable hoop house. It is 10 x 12 and has about 38 young chickens growing out inside.

Views on the inside:


And a few Ameraucana closeups
first a silver pullet

now a pair of lavenders

I am so loving hoop coops right now. You have some great looking birds growing out! Love the silver ameraucana and those shimmery green feathers in your blacks! Lol, the lavendars look like little old men!

Well, the camera i was using is awful but my little group of free ranging banjos decided to take a little rest right by my feet. 3 little polish, about 6 weeks old and a little legbar pullet, about 4 weeks old (i think)

Very cool coloring!

Very first egg! Blue!

I was very supprised to see it laying in the egg box this morning. The girls are only 19 week old.

Suspect #1: Dolly the Rees Legbar. She is the one with best comb development and acted very excited this morning.


Suspect #2: Bownie. She is the only other blue egg layer who squats for me all the time. Ruff-Ruff the Rhodeba is the one on the back. She doesn't look ready yet.


Suspect #3: Molly (75% legbar, 25% welsummer) She sang egg song yesterday and last week.


Other girls:
Bear looks like a pure bielefielder, although she is only half.

Penny the Welbar. She sings egg song and squats, but her comb is not very red.


Thanks so much to Dennis. These girls are absolutely beautiful, cute, healthy, and friendly.

Sorry, I didn't come here recently. Had some difficult time within last two months. Bad news is : I may need to move out of PA, and there's no way I can take my chickens with me; Good news is: If I cannot bring the chickens with me, my brother-in-law will take the girls as their family pets.

Gorgeous birds. What is Brownie? She's a pretty mix!

adorable!

 

[BullChick]

And fire up your incubator...I am bringing enough that you can incubate some at the same time to provide the broodies with replacements for any clears and graft a few chicks to them at hatch.

Okay, I will do that!
Duckling is down, internet is up. Until another feather floats past the dish, and knocks it out again.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Well yesterday my gram went back to the hostpital this is the third time in, this time though she is on the intensive care unit.

 

[dheltzel]

Gorgeous birds. What is Brownie? She's a pretty mix!

Brownie was an experiment. I used a Wheaten Ameraucana over my flock of California Greys, expecting to get black sexlinks (since extended black should be very dominant over wheaten chick down). Instead, I got "brown sexlinks". I was worried about whether they would be sexable as chicks (blue sexlinks are very hard to sex accurately. for ex). It turns out I could sex them without a problem and the color of both chicks and adults is quite different than any other breeds I have.I hope to have a nice pen of Wheaten Ams and a few of the young Cali Grey pullets I'm raising now could end up in there to make more "Brownies" for next year. Hmmm, maybe I will call that hybrid a "Brownie" and post the story on my website, if @TillyPeeps is ok with that. She was a neat looking chick and shallow as it sounds, pretty chicks sell well. I know of no other brown chicken that lays a blue egg, though there are some Red Brown Ameraucanas, they don't really look like Brownie.

 

[LadyBehir]

Well, since Bridget decided to go broody, I put 6 eggs under her. Fun fun.

 

[fisherlady]

Well yesterday my gram went back to the hostpital this is the third time in, this time though she is on the intensive care unit.

Sorry to hear, hopefully she turns around soon so she can get out of the hospital!

 

[fisherlady]

Well, since Bridget decided to go broody, I put 6 eggs under her. Fun fun.

Hope she has a good hatch for you....broodies are wonderful, though we honestly would be ok with a few weeks off from them for the summer!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Sorry to hear, hopefully she turns around soon so she can get out of the hospital!

Thank you right now though she doesn't sound to good her organs a shutting down and needs to go into surgery but is to weak to go in. So I don't even know what to do.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Aren't pekin a 28 day egg? Not a good idea if they are already a few weeks in. I can bring you some more SPR eggs if you want.

That's really being neighborly. Enabling by delivery!

I was kidding. Extra chickens are easier to deal with! And, it is too long.
I hate to say it, but I think I might need you to.
This is what my eggs look like.

Look at those gorgeous yolks! How I miss my fresh eggs! Even the best ones at the grocery store pale in comparison. Saw "pastured" eggs at Giant yesterday. $7 and change for a dozen! Worst part is, I thought about buying them....

I am so loving hoop coops right now. You have some great looking birds growing out! Love the silver ameraucana and those shimmery green feathers in your blacks! Lol, the lavendars look like little old men!

Very cool coloring!

Gorgeous birds. What is Brownie? She's a pretty mix!

adorable!

Lol! They do look like old men!

Okay, I will do that!
Duckling is down, internet is up. Until another feather floats past the dish, and knocks it out again.

Is satellite internet terrible? We are looking into options once we move out a bit further. We have to have fast internet since hubby fixes computers and does work remotely.

Well yesterday my gram went back to the hostpital this is the third time in, this time though she is on the intensive care unit.

So sorry to hear that.

Brownie was an experiment. I used a Wheaten Ameraucana over my flock of California Greys, expecting to get black sexlinks (since extended black should be very dominant over wheaten chick down). Instead, I got "brown sexlinks". I was worried about whether they would be sexable as chicks (blue sexlinks are very hard to sex accurately. for ex). It turns out I could sex them without a problem and the color of both chicks and adults is quite different than any other breeds I have.I hope to have a nice pen of Wheaten Ams and a few of the young Cali Grey pullets I'm raising now could end up in there to make more "Brownies" for next year. Hmmm, maybe I will call that hybrid a "Brownie" and post the story on my website, if @TillyPeeps
  is ok with that. She was a neat looking chick and shallow as it sounds, pretty chicks sell well. I know of no other brown chicken that lays a blue egg, though there are some Red Brown Ameraucanas, they don't really look like Brownie.

That is a neat mix! God Job!

Well, since Bridget decided to go broody, I put 6 eggs under her. Fun fun.

Only 6?