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[WalnutHill]

This picture looks like an animated Pixar version of a real chick! Love that picture!

This is Jack. He's not too bright and his neck is a Little short, but he's a sweetheart. Too much white right now, but he's only 3 months so give him time. Nice yellow legs, good brow, Kind of molting so his topline looks funny.

Now you know Jack

good and funny!!!!!! Yes, that chick looked too poofy to be real. I took more pics of that one than any others. And with the exceptionally long fuzz that covered the drumsticks, it looked like it was propped up on toothpick legs. It's another backyard chick, but the parents were my gold EE (almost Ameraucana) hen and my Salmon Faverolle/Ameraucana roo. The Ameraucana showed through except the shanks are willow instead of slate, and the beard and muffs kind of extended into a puff.

We've had mostly mutt dogs for the last 30 years, one purebred. Mutt chickens don't bother me in the least. It's fun never knowing what is going to hatch.

I have one EE roo that looks similar to Jack, and two that have similar pattern but with black heads. None have such stunning yellow legs. What is Jack?

 

[WVduckchick]

  good and funny!!!!!!  Yes, that chick looked too poofy to be real.  I took more pics of that one than any others.  And with the exceptionally long fuzz that covered the drumsticks, it looked like it was propped up on toothpick legs.  It's another backyard chick, but the parents were my gold EE (almost Ameraucana) hen and my Salmon Faverolle/Ameraucana roo.  The Ameraucana showed through except the shanks are willow instead of slate, and the beard and muffs kind of extended into a puff.

We've had mostly mutt dogs for the last 30 years, one purebred.  Mutt chickens don't bother me in the least.  It's fun never knowing what is going to hatch.

I have one EE roo that looks similar to Jack, and two that have similar pattern but with black heads.  None have such stunning yellow legs.  What is Jack?

Hey Walnut - how's little Zorro?

 

[WalnutHill]

You guys/gals are a hoot. Did I mention I started reading this thread and made it to post 1100 and something and said forget it, I want in. I might slowly read through while trying to keep up with the chatter.

DH has lots of power tools. He's just protective of them. And messy. And he doesn't like to share. He did get my mobile run finished yesterday and I had the chickens out earlier. We have also been free ranging them under supervision. Sooo a little help? I really really want Olive eggers. We have 2 of each auracana, barred rock, silver laced Wyandotte and golden laced Wyandotte from rural king which we got May 1st. I just ordered 2 of each Easter eggers, blue laced red Wyandotte, black copper marans and
Welsummer. I'm thinking we need a rooster or 2. What would you recommend?

There is a fix for your tool trouble. Go to an estate auction and buy a lot (not quantity...ya know...a collection). You can generally get them cheap that way.

But don't ask my advice, I couldn't buy kitchen and butler's pantry cabinets that fit our house, with a cellar stairwell projecting 25" into the kitchen where the cabinets were going, and 19" deep base cabinets in the butler's pantry. I hired a portable sawmill to mill a couple of oak trees that were cut down on the former farmland, stickered it and let it dry for a few years, and bought:
Delta table saw with 52" table and fence
Dewalt 12" planer
Delta 6" jointer
Porter Cable router with plunge and fixed base, a bunch of bits including panel raising and dovetail, and a router table
Porter Cable dovetail jig
Dewalt 10" compound miter saw
Bunch of other tools

And built my cabinets, two rooms worth of base and upper cabinets. The tools were paid for, and I still have a bunch of lovely quartersawn white oak left for my next project. The doors are all haunched mortise and tenon with double raised panels, and the cabinets are not standard sizes, they are made to fit the room's non-standard dimensions. All drawers are dovetailed ash with bottoms fit in grooves. The hardest thing was screwing the uppers to the wall and hoping they would stay when heavily loaded. And they have, for 12 years and counting.

I wanted soapstone countertops but settled for granite. When the granite installers came, they laughed at how overbuilt my cabinet frames were. "We install them on particleboard cabinets all the time".

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

There is a fix for your tool trouble. Go to an estate auction and buy a lot (not quantity...ya know...a collection). You can generally get them cheap that way.

But don't ask my advice, I couldn't buy kitchen and butler's pantry cabinets that fit our house, with a cellar stairwell projecting 25" into the kitchen where the cabinets were going, and 19" deep base cabinets in the butler's pantry. I hired a portable sawmill to mill a couple of oak trees that were cut down on the former farmland, stickered it and let it dry for a few years, and bought:
Delta table saw with 52" table and fence
Dewalt 12" planer
Delta 6" jointer
Porter Cable router with plunge and fixed base, a bunch of bits including panel raising and dovetail, and a router table
Porter Cable dovetail jig
Dewalt 10" compound miter saw
Bunch of other tools

And built my cabinets, two rooms worth of base and upper cabinets. The tools were paid for, and I still have a bunch of lovely quartersawn white oak left for my next project. The doors are all haunched mortise and tenon with double raised panels, and the cabinets are not standard sizes, they are made to fit the room's non-standard dimensions. All drawers are dovetailed ash with bottoms fit in grooves. The hardest thing was screwing the uppers to the wall and hoping they would stay when heavily loaded. And they have, for 12 years and counting.

I wanted soapstone countertops but settled for granite. When the granite installers came, they laughed at how overbuilt my cabinet frames were. "We install them on particleboard cabinets all the time".

*drools* That sounds simply fabulous.

 

[FridayYet]

Ooooh! A Russian Orlof! Pretty!

Thank you. I'm leaning toward my other keeper cockerel, (who unfortunately has even more white, but a longer neck). I love my Orloffs!

good and funny!!!!!! Yes, that chick looked too poofy to be real. I took more pics of that one than any others. And with the exceptionally long fuzz that covered the drumsticks, it looked like it was propped up on toothpick legs. It's another backyard chick, but the parents were my gold EE (almost Ameraucana) hen and my Salmon Faverolle/Ameraucana roo. The Ameraucana showed through except the shanks are willow instead of slate, and the beard and muffs kind of extended into a puff.

We've had mostly mutt dogs for the last 30 years, one purebred. Mutt chickens don't bother me in the least. It's fun never knowing what is going to hatch.

I have one EE roo that looks similar to Jack, and two that have similar pattern but with black heads. None have such stunning yellow legs. What is Jack?

I like mutts too, both dogs and chickens, and have EEs and will make some OEs in the future. Just can't stand people who sell mutts as pure stock. In this case, Jack is a pure Spangled Russian Orloff.

There is a fix for your tool trouble. Go to an estate auction and buy a lot (not quantity...ya know...a collection). You can generally get them cheap that way.

But don't ask my advice, I couldn't buy kitchen and butler's pantry cabinets that fit our house, with a cellar stairwell projecting 25" into the kitchen where the cabinets were going, and 19" deep base cabinets in the butler's pantry. I hired a portable sawmill to mill a couple of oak trees that were cut down on the former farmland, stickered it and let it dry for a few years, and bought:
Delta table saw with 52" table and fence
Dewalt 12" planer
Delta 6" jointer
Porter Cable router with plunge and fixed base, a bunch of bits including panel raising and dovetail, and a router table
Porter Cable dovetail jig
Dewalt 10" compound miter saw
Bunch of other tools

And built my cabinets, two rooms worth of base and upper cabinets. The tools were paid for, and I still have a bunch of lovely quartersawn white oak left for my next project. The doors are all haunched mortise and tenon with double raised panels, and the cabinets are not standard sizes, they are made to fit the room's non-standard dimensions. All drawers are dovetailed ash with bottoms fit in grooves. The hardest thing was screwing the uppers to the wall and hoping they would stay when heavily loaded. And they have, for 12 years and counting.

I wanted soapstone countertops but settled for granite. When the granite installers came, they laughed at how overbuilt my cabinet frames were. "We install them on particleboard cabinets all the time".

That sounds like a spectacular solution to the cabinet issue!

 

[WalnutHill]

Hey Walnut - how's little Zorro?

Thanks for asking, Zorro is one of the speedy bunch that is camera shy. I have 25 broilers, the bantams, half a dozen young turkeys, and a dozen or so young chickens in one pen. Zorro is in there somewhere...in that lot many are feathering in with coloring like Friday's Jack. I can't wait to see how they turn out!

I think there are about 300 birds here now. I am not spending enough time with them, they don't know me as anyone but the person who brings food and removes some of their friends.

 

[RubyNala97]

Thank you. See, that's all I was looking for. Sad about the dog. Almost all the dogs we've had since before I can remember all lived to a ripe age where they had to be put down due to an age issue that was causing them to suffer. I still look at dogs and see my first who was 15 or 16 when we had her put down. Always great to remember and keep their memory alive. As for the brother- do we share one? lol

Any dogs now, Amy? I was looking into getting a livestock guardian dog. They seem awesome. They protect the flock like they are part of it. Does anyone have one? I wish I had a bigger house..I'll have to wait till we move. No dogs right now. And yes, Amy you described my brother to a tee.

Thanks, that is one of my first batch of Easter Eggers in April. I had a hard time deciding which photo to use. This chick was SUCH a fuzzball!

Oh my goodness! Looks like a cartoon. So so so adorable.

I'd love to take a class on this. It's all very confusing to me.

Ditto!

 

[BYC910]

That is a fine list right there

I just bought my first jigsaw a few months ago and love it. My most recent addition was a table saw. That is so much easier than a skill saw, especially when working with longer cuts. I bought a metal cutting blade, and it does a great job on corrugated metal, too.
Does anyone else use Torx screws? I started that this year, and will never use Phillips again if I don't have to. No stripping, and you can really sink the screws

know you won't read this till tomorrow but two things torx screws do strip and when they do its hard to get them out worse when they break square drive are about the same stay away from stainless they break in hard wood. I predrill a lot but either are the best thing going. If you really want it to hold use simpson strong ties hex head and you can screw them into dry oak . the other thing be careful cutting metal with wood saws the sparks will melt plastic .If using a circular saw with metal a cutting blade make sure it has a metal blade guard .not real worried about you SC. you are in construction.so you others out there never take your eyes off of what you are doing and stay 100% focused on what you are doing at all times. good power tools cost a lot of money do your home work before buying any tool. It's cheaper to buy a good tool once than to buy a cheap tool two or three times.

 

[HiyokoInNippon]

You are turning the eggs during the day right?  If you are hand turning they will appear to be growing on one side when you candle. (Whatever side is facing up before you picked them up.) Once you turn the eggs everything will shift and the embryo will surface back up to the side that is up until they are bigger. As long as they are being turned, they should not actually "stick" to one side. If the eggs are being touched throughout the day by children w/unwashed hands you have a greater chance of bacteria getting in the pores of the shell and causing the embryos to die. Personally, I would only be allowing handling by adults or at least washed hands. The more they are handled the higher the probablitity that something may happen.

Air cells will grow at different rates on different eggs for different reasons but one of the biggest is shell quality and porosity of the shell. A more porous egg will loose moisture faster causeing the air cell to grow more. Always control humidity according to the majority of the eggs and not the minority.

Thanks, I am not too worried about the infection thing. The only person allowed to handle the eggs is me but the kids touch them a lot. I am hoping for a low hatch rate actually ^^;; Just want to make sure about the air cell and sticking thing. Yes, they are being hand turned, a consequence of not being any good at EE.

 

[WalnutHill]

know you won't read this till tomorrow but two things torx screws do strip and when they do its hard to get them out worse when they break square drive are about the same stay away from stainless they break in hard wood. I predrill a lot but either are the best thing going. If you really want it to hold use simpson strong ties hex head and you can screw them into dry oak . the other thing be careful cutting metal with wood saws the sparks will melt plastic .If using a circular saw with metal a cutting blade make sure it has a metal blade guard .not real worried about you SC. you are in construction.so you others out there never take your eyes off of what you are doing and stay 100% focused on what you are doing at all times. good power tools cost a lot of money do your home work before buying any tool. It's cheaper to buy a good tool once than to buy a cheap tool two or three times.

Those Strong Ties screws are great, but you have to countersink that big old head if you don't want them sticking out.

I have a box of Swaneze Stainless Deck screws. Square drive, small heads, self tapping. I used them to install a composite porch deck but they work on just about anything. And they can still be removed from an outdoor install 10 years later. http://www.fastenersonly.com/g34.html

Painted version: http://www.amazon.com/Simpson-Swan-Secure-S07225FJI-350-Count/dp/B002BW9ND0

I finally let my residential contractor's license go this year. My brain is more suited for hard work now than my body. Though I did spend the holiday weekend replacing the sewer main through our stone cellar wall and a few clay tiles out. Diamond blade in the Sawzall makes cutting vitreous china drain tile as easy as cutting a loaf of bread.