post your chicken coop pictures here!

[ShrekDawg]

All the hens are at least 2 yeard old. I thought the black one is a Jersey Giant. The isa reds i had were a little larger but not much. Its going to be fun to see what i have when the chicks are full grown. You would Think i could keep track of 6 or 8 chickens but i really dont know where i got the one laying the green eggs. There was another just like it but found it dead in the coop one day.

Hmm, definitely a mystery! Sorry about the loss as for it being a jersey giant, I thought australorp because of the green shine to the festhers which i dont think jersey giants usually have. Plus look at the leg color, slate/grey and it'd be australorp, yellow jersey giant plus JG are usually way bigger

 

[gpeters3]

Hmm, definitely a mystery! Sorry about the loss as for it being a jersey giant, I thought australorp because of the green shine to the festhers which i dont think jersey giants usually have. Plus look at the leg color, slate/grey and it'd be australorp, yellow jersey giant plus JG are usually way bigger

Went to the Giant thread and pictures there looked exactly like mine. Ausralorps looked dull rather than shiny and the body shape was longer, more like the isa. Pictures can be hard to interpret i guess. My black one is very shiny, no white in it at all and the same size and shape as the others. All 5 are about the same size. The barred rock may be the largest. I guess i could bring a bathroom scale out and try to weigh them you just put them on the scale and command them to stay, right?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Went to the Giant thread and pictures there looked exactly like mine. Ausralorps looked dull rather than shiny and the body shape was longer, more like the isa. Pictures can be hard to interpret i guess. My black one is very shiny, no white in it at all and the same size and shape as the others. All 5 are about the same size. The barred rock may be the largest. I guess i could bring a bathroom scale out and try to weigh them you just put them on the scale and command them to stay, right?

Ahhh okay, that makes sense then! It could really be either, I don't know much about either breed so sorry if I'm wrong! I'll have to get a picture of mine which youre right, they do seem a bit dull thinking of it, but in the sunlight they have a beautiful green sheen. And LOL that's how I'd do it my Australorps are my biggest chickens or at least heaviest, my Barred Rock is close in size and maybe just broader than them, my Easter Eggers are next in size the surprisingly the Orpingtons are last and are the smallest ones but one is catching up

 

[junebuggena]

There is very little difference between hatchery Australorps and Jersey Giants. Both are about the same size. Both are the same black, with the same sheen. Both have dark slate legs. The only real difference is the skin color, which is best seen on the bottoms of the feet. Australorps have white skin. Giants have yellow.

 

[ShrekDawg]

There is very little difference between hatchery Australorps and Jersey Giants. Both are about the same size. Both are the same black, with the same sheen. Both have dark slate legs. The only real difference is the skin color, which is best seen on the bottoms of the feet. Australorps have white skin. Giants have yellow.

It seems it's that way with a lot of breeds, that the hatchery versions are either the same or not the breed claimed! Kind of a shame but I guess that's what happens with large scale breeding! Guess it'd be equivalent to a puppy mill?? Though some hatcheries are much nicer than a mill but hopefully you see my point. But ANYWAY. Without getting too off topic, thank you for the clarification! I've never been able to look at the bottoms of my chickens feet so I will have to try to catch them but I'm pretty sure mine are Australorps. I ordered them so they better be but I ordered mine from Meyer and someone said that theirs straight up had yellow legs and were clesrly JGs and that mine (when I got them and posted pics) were slate so looks like they gave me the right breed so I assumed they did. Will look at the bottoms of the feet though. But I know the question is more on what gpeters is and I'd be really curious to know

 

[ShrekDawg]

Ahhh okay, that makes sense then! It could really be either, I don't know much about either breed so sorry if I'm wrong! I'll have to get a picture of mine which youre right, they do seem a bit dull thinking of it, but in the sunlight they have a beautiful green sheen. And LOL that's how I'd do it my Australorps are my biggest chickens or at least heaviest, my Barred Rock is close in size and maybe just broader than them, my Easter Eggers are next in size the surprisingly the Orpingtons are last and are the smallest ones but one is catching up

There is very little difference between hatchery Australorps and Jersey Giants. Both are about the same size. Both are the same black, with the same sheen. Both have dark slate legs. The only real difference is the skin color, which is best seen on the bottoms of the feet. Australorps have white skin. Giants have yellow.

It seems it's that way with a lot of breeds, that the hatchery versions are either the same or not the breed claimed! Kind of a shame but I guess that's what happens with large scale breeding! Guess it'd be equivalent to a puppy mill?? Though some hatcheries are much nicer than a mill but hopefully you see my point. But ANYWAY. Without getting too off topic, thank you for the clarification! I've never been able to look at the bottoms of my chickens feet so I will have to try to catch them but I'm pretty sure mine are Australorps. I ordered them so they better be but I ordered mine from Meyer and someone said that theirs straight up had yellow legs and were clesrly JGs and that mine (when I got them and posted pics) were slate so looks like they gave me the right breed so I assumed they did. Will look at the bottoms of the feet though. But I know the question is more on what gpeters is and I'd be really curious to know

@gpeters3 i coulda been wrong. Check the feet and get back to us, now very curious!

 

[Monterey]

If you weigh yourself holding the chicken and then weigh just yourself, the difference in the 2 weights is the weight of the chicken-that's how I do the dog...

 

[ShrekDawg]

If you weigh yourself holding the chicken and then weigh just yourself, the difference in the 2 weights is the weight of the chicken-that's how I do the dog...

Very true. Wonder if it would work for a chicken or cat though given how light they are? But surely it would be a couple pound difference at least

 

[urbanabanana]

I'm excited, my coop came in yesterday and I'm going to be picking it up in a couple of days! (My cousin works nights as a nurse, so she isn't able to come with me until a day she isn't working) I can't wait to get it set up, and I'm going to borrow one of my dad's wood staplers to go over the screened portions twice.

 

[lynnehd]

I'm excited, my coop came in yesterday and I'm going to be picking it up in a couple of days! (My cousin works nights as a nurse, so she isn't able to come with me until a day she isn't working) I can't wait to get it set up, and I'm going to borrow one of my dad's wood staplers to go over the screened portions twice.

Exciting!!!

Sounds like your Dad has those pneumatic staplers, which if you are using ~1" staples, are as good as screws.