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[B123]

 

[sdm111]

Yeah get some pics up here's a few of golds and silvery blue

 

[sdm111]

how many blues u have I can't remember

 

[B123]

how many blues u have I can't remember

I hatched seven from you. One blue stag, one black stag, one black pullet, two light blue pullets, and two splash pullets. All look to be pea combed. Nice birds and calm too!

 

[sdm111]

Cool a little of everything I was just saying the other day how at about 3yrs the Cocks are almost eerily calm and content with humans not jumpy in the least but will kill another bird in a heartbeat

 

[sdm111]

Black streamer just starting

 

[flypen]

Hatched 16 out 17 eggs

 

[roosterhavoc]

finally just finished the second electric fence, added straw to 41 pens and filled and cleaned numerous feeders and waterers.
I'll tell ya what. 3.5 bales of straw don't go as far as it used to. Neither does a 50lb bag of starter.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Hatched 16 out 17 eggs

congrats another awesome hatch. Can't beat it!

 

[centrarchid]

Barrel system for broody hens does seem to be something I will be making use of in the years to come. Hens adopt them very well and barrels fit under the tall pens just fine. A hen is penned with a barrel and given periodic conjugal visits by proper brood cock. Once hen has reached day 10 of incubation I remove the pen so she can get out more and hit dusting areas. Mites being a problem for some penned birds. Release at 10 days makes so I do not have to worry about cuckolders obscuring parentage. Hens respect each others ownership of barrels very well. A problem made evident by the heavy rains in the past two weeks is that they must be properly drilled to allow rainwater out as when you get 7" of rain, some with driving winds, the barrels tend to collect water. Most clutches weathered that just fine, but a couple where the nest were defined by baskets rather than tubs the clutches were likely lost do to water wicking up against eggs. I changed out nest container so hens of those wetted clutches will be able to finish out incubation. Hatch rate will be monitored closely.

Another problem related to rainfall is stronger than usual conflicts between hens and much of that is directed at chicks. Most of time hens stay within respective territories but that breaks down when I show up with feed bucket. Hens then violate each others turf causing too many skirmishes. Such violations usually not an issues because forage better. Heavy rains appear to have either killed forage base or prevented drift from replenishing as a given area is gleaned out. This problem I intend to lick using a bunch of feeding stations where feed is applied in early AM before broodies come off nest with chicks.


Chiggers are out. Party all the time.