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[Texasmja]

Here is another one of my Wyandotte cockerels.

 

[Texasmja]

Here are some of my Wyandotte pullets.

 

[showbarnmom]

do you have enough roosts?.. if so go out after they have gone to roost.. then move them from the nest boxes to the roost

you'll probably have to do it several times until they get the idea.. but they should have it figured out in less than a week

I have one long roost, 8ft long, that spans the coop. But its only knee high because we put it up when they were only 5 weeks. I do go out every night and put them down on the roost.

So I think raising it will help. As well as adding one more row, rihht?

 

[showbarnmom]

Here are some of my Wyandotte pullets.

Wow! Which "color" is that considered? I like the silver laced the most, but this color is my 2nd fav! I wouldn't mind one of these too.

 

[Texasmja]

Wow! Which "color" is that considered? I like the silver laced the most, but this color is my 2nd fav! I wouldn't mind one of these too.

Those two are Blue Lace Red (splash).

 

[PSJ]

I love a BLRW!!! Soooo pretty!!!

 

[KnobbyOaks]

Any tips on teaching pullets NOT to roost in their nesting boxes? Only the two new ones do it. One is 21 weeks.

I worried about this for as long as it took: My 8 chicks started sleeping in the 2 nesting boxes from the time they were put in their coop at about 3 weeks old. I had a perfectly good little coop with 2 roost but no, they all piled into the 2 boxes. And there they grew and grew and grew. I worried that when they started to lay they would be laying in poop. When they started squatting, I went out and bought hay and put in the boxes (everything else was shavings) and guess what! When the first one laid an egg, nobody slept in the box from then on, just like that!

 

[KnobbyOaks]

This is one of my Wyandotte cockerels and some pullets.

These guys are beautiful!

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's where his are from. Mine I picked up at GFS - they are supplied by Ideal.

Yeah mine came from a feed store supplied by ideal.
Texasmja those birds are beautiful!! Love the blrw's!!

 

[ellie32526]

thank you for the reply. I found in another thread that the test for typhoid and pullorun can be done for free, but what is a NPIP certificate?

I got a certificate when I purchased my chicks from Murray. I requested the chicks be vaccinated against Marecks disease and coccidiosis and asked for an NPIP certificate in case I decided to show.