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I have tentatively decided on my "new" fufu breed for next year.
I am asking for your input into them, I do not know much about them. I am trying to pick a heritage breed off the threatened or endangered list.
The tentative choice is::::: Trumpets playing........
Silver Duckwing Yokohama...
The bad part is I am stuck starting with hatchery stock. Hopefully I can improve upon them with time. Cackle is the hatchery I am looking at. I have never bought from them before so input on them is needed too..
None of this is in stone yet..
Good morning all. Lots of happenings in the past 10 days. My family and I just returned from a 10 day road trip out west. 3900 miles, 7 states, wow do we live in an amazing country. If you ever get the opportunity I strongly encourage everyone to visit glacier National Park. I also found trail Ridge Road going into estes park colorado to be amazing.
Hello all and happy Sunday! Was a great day and got a lot done until it started to rain. Sooooo....today was the first day I let the chicks free range. spent all morning securing chicken wire to fences, gates, etc....then installed a 5th hotwire rope close to the ground so the chicks would get the idea that they must remain in the pasture......well...there is one spot and they FOUND it, where they walked right under. their backs touched the rope and no shock????? So back to the main line...I turned the fence off and re-installed the wire that connects all 5 strands. now my fence tester gave me all red beeps up to 7000 volts.... we will see next time they are let out. I am also going to place some logs in the areas where the rope is not low enough to the ground to inhibit their trying to walk under.
Geesh...the work never ends.
It wasn't as hard as I thought getting them back into the run...I have them trained now when they hear the bag of dried meal worms shaking...they come running...FAST! We had a few stragglers that were easily rounded up!
It is an amazing country, so much to see. I'm glad you enjoyed your trip and are back safely. Any losses? Whenever I leave, something dies in some bizarre accident.
I call out the same vocal pattern every time I feed, so it's no problem for me to lure them back if I'm holding a bucket and calling. I always have a little grain, so as not to create trust issues! LOL
As far as keeping them in a fence, I have found just making sure if there is a hole that it's easy for them to get in and out of works well for deterring predators. Maybe you're trying to keep them out of stuff? Then I just use cheap step-in posts and floppy deer netting around anything I don't want them getting into.
A real chicken fence is still in the works, though.
I have tentatively decided on my "new" fufu breed for next year.
I am asking for your input into them, I do not know much about them. I am trying to pick a heritage breed off the threatened or endangered list.
The tentative choice is::::: Trumpets playing........
Silver Duckwing Yokohama...
The bad part is I am stuck starting with hatchery stock. Hopefully I can improve upon them with time. Cackle is the hatchery I am looking at. I have never bought from them before so input on them is needed too..
None of this is in stone yet..
I am going to Holm's on the 2nd. Judy and I are taking a road trip to give Mr T a physical!
Good morning all.....dark clouds are brewing here on the North Shore.... which means I will get nothing done on the greenhouse
so we are going to take a run to Duluth to get some parts for my bike, Duluth Harley Davidson has a 15% off deal going on right now........need some highway pegs. I'M GOING TO STURGIS!!!!!
I have cuckoo and lavender cuckoo project colors . I have produced sex links with them . I left a reply on the Aliance .There must be a problem with my computer updating, as I see no post from this morning?
Ralphie, in case you would have an interest. Dennis Heltzel wrote a post on the Ameraucana Alliance blog this morning regarding sex-linked pullet production of EEs which closely resemble a Black Ameraucana pullet. He uses California Grey pullets with a Black Ameraucana rooster to produce the black pullets?
I suspect that Jerry might shed some light on this. Potentially this would be an avenue to produce and sell EE chicks that are pullets? You could definitely charge more for a sexed chick than straight run.
Thanks for the thought on the Guinea keets, but I think I will hold off on them.