South Carolina

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

Spent the afternoon converting an 8x12 dog pen into a chicken pen. Topped it with aluminum siding. Just need to secure a few spots and voila, ready for more birds!

 

[RockerHen]

Spent the afternoon converting an 8x12 dog pen into a chicken pen. Topped it with aluminum siding. Just need to secure a few spots and voila, ready for more birds!

That's what I did for my silkies, they love their pen and it keeps them clean (mostly lol. if there's a will there's a way)

is this pen for silkies or other birds?

 

[RockerHen]

Another broody hen with more baby turkeys

and today my LF cochin decided she wanted to be broody and has taken over the nest box. I don't know what I'm going to do with her. Maybe give her a few poults when the turkey hen hatches her brood, she's going to have her wings full with 15 if they all hatch.
Also, if you cross a barred breed rooster (my boy is a Cuckoo Marans) with other colored hens (EEs, Cochin, Wyandottes, other mixes) I know they're not sex linked, but does the barring version of sexing still work? As in, roosters have light barring and hens have darker barring? I hope so, because 1 of my 5 barred babies is the only one with light barring, the rest have murky dark barring. That would be fantastic if I escaped with just one roo to deal with from this hatch

My 8 month old Cuckoo Marans boy kicked my 2 year old wyandotte rooster's butt and now rules the free range layer flock, hence most of the babies I'm hatching out being his offspring. He's absolutely HUGE for his size and age, much bigger than any of my other breeds. He rivals the turkey hen for size!

 

[mjanderson437]

I've missed checking in with y'all... been busy hatching oegb for a friend of mine...24 over several incubations and 1 broody hen. And i hatched my first ever guinea! I was testing to see if eggs were fertile but never could see thru the shell. Went to transfer oegb eggs to hatcher and candled guinea egg one last time only to see a beak in the air cell! I could have kicked myself for getting discouraged and putting the other guinea eggs in the fridge to eat. But I've been saving them all this week! Here's a pic...lets hope its a female; i have 7 males to 2 females now, so need to even those odds!

Look forward to maybe putting names with faces at Chickenstock. Tho if i bring home any birds, my husband will have a fit!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Hey fellow chicken folks!! I am from heath springs sc!!! New to the site and to chickens so i am exploring around!!!! Love to talk with yall sometime!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I've missed checking in with y'all... been busy hatching oegb for a friend of mine...24 over several incubations and 1 broody hen. And i hatched my first ever guinea! I was testing to see if eggs were fertile but never could see thru the shell. Went to transfer oegb eggs to hatcher and candled guinea egg one last time only to see a beak in the air cell! I could have kicked myself for getting discouraged and putting the other guinea eggs in the fridge to eat. But I've been saving them all this week! Here's a pic...lets hope its a female; i have 7 males to 2 females now, so need to even those odds!



Look forward to maybe putting names with faces at Chickenstock. Tho if i bring home any birds, my husband will have a fit!

 

[samouw]

I've missed checking in with y'all... been busy hatching oegb for a friend of mine...24 over several incubations and 1 broody hen. And i hatched my first ever guinea! I was testing to see if eggs were fertile but never could see thru the shell. Went to transfer oegb eggs to hatcher and candled guinea egg one last time only to see a beak in the air cell! I could have kicked myself for getting discouraged and putting the other guinea eggs in the fridge to eat. But I've been saving them all this week! Here's a pic...lets hope its a female; i have 7 males to 2 females now, so need to even those odds!



Look forward to maybe putting names with faces at Chickenstock. Tho if i bring home any birds, my husband will have a fit!

My husband threatens that every time I go someplace that has any type of fowl. But, when I get home and show him, "Look who followed me home", he just sighs and builds another pen.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

My husband threatens that every time I go someplace that has any type of fowl. But, when I get home and show him, "Look who followed me home", he just sighs and builds another pen.

 

[Wax Myrtle]

RockerHen - (quote not working) About barring and sexing by brightness, in short, no, they will all be dark like a purebred BR. Barring is an incomplete sex-linked dominant gene, girls can only ever have one copy so are always dark. Boys can have one or two copies. Two copies makes for the brighter barring.

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Oh, wait! You said cuckoo, not barred. I *think* that's a separate gene, and I don't know how that one works. Ask me about horse color genes and I can answer most any question, still learning chicken.