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[kathyinmo]

LOOK! ! ! I know LH will want these .... (so do I ! )
Mary (The Warden) got these ..... (her picture shown)...

http://www.gardeners.com/Gardeners-Wellies/38-812,default,pd.html

 

[NellaBean]

Bantam Mottled Cochins

Want to pen my Blue Wheaten Ameracuana pair with my Wheaten Marans girls....and my wellie girl if she ever starts laying. Should be super Olive eggers.

I kept the Mille Cochin rooster, but not sure if I want to bother making splits with him my mottled girls.

 

[NellaBean]

Those wellies are awesome! Crazy ridiculous....but awesome

 

[kathyinmo]

Bantams? Why not the Large Fowl?

Wheaten over Wheaten = NICE Olive Eggers! Yeah, those will be pretty!

I have ONE Lavender Ameraucana ..... rooster.

 

[NellaBean]

I don't have any breeder quality large fowl cochins. And I would like to not add new birds

Unless they are created from my own already existing birds.

I do consider the idea of making super broodies. Crossing my crazy barred cochin girl over my younger blue cochin rooster. She is hatchery quality but super broody. He is supposedly breeder quality but has major (like DQ) faults. But his mother went broody here......and both of her sisters went broody. And his father is related to them. So in theory he comes from a "broody lines" as well. That's always an idea too.

I forgot, also Welsh Harlequin ducks. I just want to sell hatching eggs, maybe ducklings locally.

 

[NellaBean]

Quote:
If you crossed your Lav rooster over Black Copper Marans hens.....you would get Split to Lavender chicks who were olive eggers as F1. Cross the siblings back to each other and in theory, shouldn't you get some lavender olive eggers in the F2?

 

[kathyinmo]

Hey, that's a thought .... Lavender Olive Eggers! ha, a new breed to come ....

Really, I do know I need to cut some breeds. It's just so hard to decide. DH is no help with that either, cuz he can't decide who to cut.

Sometimes I just think to quit all this nonsense and just let them all out to free range, and forget about pure eggs. Just to sit back and enjoy them, instead of worrying about pure eggs. Ya know what I mean. It is a pain in the butt to have all these pens.

 

[NellaBean]

Yes.....that is how I feel too. I think, gosh, I was pretty darn happy when I just had a dozen chickens running around the yard. I have a single "off" hen in my tractor. The bantam mottled cochins in my 8x8 pen....and the 2 roosters in the big rooster pen. One is sold and will leave Thursday......I need to cull the hen and then move the remaining rooster from the rooster pen into that tractor. That will free up the big rooster pen. Which needs to be covered and made into my bantam mottled cochin pen. It has a nice 8x4 coop which would be perfect for that flock of 6 bantams. Nice and roomy. And that will open up my 8x8 pen for what its true purpose is....a "baby growout pen". It has all 1/2 inch hardware cloth, with a rabbit hutch for overnighting....covered with a pvc hoop top and tarp. And it butts up to my big coop, so it is perfect for raising the next batch of "yard birds" as they very easily learn to go right into the coop once out in the big yard.

I really only want two flocks. Bantam mottled cochins and everyone else. I may need a bachelor pad here and there, and a baby growout pen.....but I dont want lots of pens of birds. I just dont have the time, money or energy...

 

[kathyinmo]

This is what I have going on right now ...

Pen # 1 Roosters in waiting (New Hampshire, Barred Rock, 4
Pen # 2 Barred Rock roo over New Hampshires (project pen) 6
Pen # 3 Ameraucanas and Olive Egger 7
Pen # 4 English Orps 8
Pen # 5 BCMarans and 2 EE girls 14
Pen # 6 Lavender Orp projects 7
Pen # 7 5 Silver Laced Wyandottes and BLRW trio
Pen # 8 Icelandics 6
Pen # 9 Buckeyes (4) and 2 RIR girls (need to go)
Pen # 10 Delawares 12 + 3 Light Sussex girls for winter
Pen # 11 Jersey Giants (Leggs and his Mrs) 3 in grow out
Pen # 12 Barred Rocks 8
Pen # 13 Coronation Sussex and Light Sussex 16
Pen # 14 Silkies 12
Pen # 15 Grow Outs .... English Orps, etc about 15
Pen # 16 Grow Outs ... Delawares, etc 10
Brooders galore ..... maybe 25 with more coming.

 

[NellaBean]

What about your silkies?