Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

fOR @Shadrach : My floor after the last of the pots...

The lad heading out with his 1st load of pots.​

 

[BY Bob]

I've got coloured eggs!

Of course you do.

 

[Ribh]

UPDATE: So I was spooked that my birds would disappear on me so I rang to confirm this morning ~ they did catch up with me. My choice of breeds began with Campines, then Araucanas, then silver laced Wyandottes. I got the Campines & Aracaunas confirmed separately then together. Whew! However I wanted another 2 birds to bring my flock numbers up again. Nothing in the standards grabbed me but....[drum roll....] they have silver laced wyandotte bantams!!! Ta~da! Like I get wyandotte bantams to run with Lottie but the breed & colour I wanted. I am so super stoked it's unbelievable! I remembered to ask what colour the Aracaunas were & I have a choice. They have a black & 2 splash. I'll look but will probably go with the splash. Now I can hardly wait to go & pick my new girls up. Waiting on a break in the weather to sort out the little coop.

 

[BY Bob]

@BY Bob you also need to be careful... sounds like there are enough near neighbors that are more than willing to set you up with some colored egg layers... and if it wasn’t for the pesky international border, some not so near ones too. Of course my next hatch is mostly spoken for, I think, and the girls are 50/50 brown/green so you’ll need to take at least four, maybe six?

For any new readers or people contemplating getting just a few chickens for eggs/as pets:
“And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how “chicken math” works...” And to think, I didn’t understand it at all setting out, now 56 chickens and 41 eggs going into the incubator later “oops”

You are at a scale I will never reach. 6 is my max, well maybe 7.

 

[BY Bob]

UPDATE: So I was spooked that my birds would disappear on me so I rang to confirm this morning ~ they did catch up with me. My choice of breeds began with Campines, then Araucanas, then silver laced Wyandottes. I got the Campines & Aracaunas confirmed separately then together. Whew! However I wanted another 2 birds to bring my flock numbers up again. Nothing in the standards grabbed me but....[drum roll....] they have silver laced wyandotte bantams!!! Ta~da! Like I get wyandotte bantams to run with Lottie but the breed & colour I wanted. I am so super stoked it's unbelievable! I remembered to ask what colour the Aracaunas were & I have a choice. They have a black & 2 splash. I'll look but will probably go with the splash. Now I can hardly wait to go & pick my new girls up. Waiting on a break in the weather to sort out the little coop.

That is great news. Better than we could have hoped. Congratulations!

 

[Ribh]

You are at a scale I will never reach. 6 is my max, well maybe 7.

I won't have that many more... And I am hoping to start moving my flock into just one or two similar breeds because sadly I think Shadrach is right. I'm hoping the Campines & Aracaunas work well together. They seem to have similar temperaments... that will give me blue & white eggs.

 

[Ribh]

That is great news. Better than we could have hoped. Congratulations!

Thank you, Bob. I really am stoked.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh, I'm excited! I'm still excited for Bob and he picked up the pullets days ago!

And I am still excited for you!

 

[Kris5902]

You are at a scale I will never reach. 6 is my max, well maybe 7.

What about the even numbers? Better make it 8

 

[Kris5902]

fOR @Shadrach : My floor after the last of the pots...


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The lad heading out with his 1st load of pots.​

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Oh my... don’t those boys know how brooms work? But it probably doesn’t smell quite as much as chicken poops