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Checked fertility on my Red Orps and My Red Cuckoo's and the Reds are fertile but the Cuckoos are not. The Cuckoo's are a little younger than the Red's so hopefully soon. On the bright side I have a half a dozen Red's developing on the Sportsman. Along with Partridge Barthuners and Augsburgers. So excited over the Red's.
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My chooks are 16 weeks old now. Yesterday they had their first afternoon of supervised free ranging in the yard (contained by an Omlet net). The dog did just fine with that. Never tried to push past it. He did stick his nose in for a good sniff and get pecked, LOL! Venetia takes NO guff from the giant beast. None at ALL!


Sylvester, my cockerel. Super sweet, but he's not holding his wings up and as tightly as I'd like. I took a close look and I don't *think* it's split wing though.



The girls (Venetia, Clorinda, and Babs) eating weeds with Sylvester.



Phoebe, the new girl, still hanging out on the fringes.

 
HighStreetCoop said:
My chooks are 16 weeks old now. Yesterday they had their first afternoon of supervised free ranging in the yard (contained by an Omlet net). The dog did just fine with that. Never tried to push past it. He did stick his nose in for a good sniff and get pecked, LOL! Venetia takes NO guff from the giant beast. None at ALL!


Sylvester, my cockerel. Super sweet, but he's not holding his wings up and as tightly as I'd like. I took a close look and I don't *think* it's split wing though.



The girls (Venetia, Clorinda, and Babs) eating weeds with Sylvester.



Phoebe, the new girl, still hanging out on the fringes.

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Is that a waterer in the first picture? I am trying to think of something that will take up less ground space and will need less cleaning. Where is the water source for that one? (if it is a waterer)
 
There are many great ideas on BYC to choose from.

Here's what I made this year:




It's a simple chicken waterer made out of horizontal chicken nipples & a 5 gal food safe bucket. I hung it, but it could also be placed on bricks or something. I have a submersible heater to put inside for when the temps go below freezing. So far, the water stayed liquid & accessible when the temps hit -20'F. (Last year my vertical chicken nipples froze solid when the temps got down to the single digits - even though the water in the bucket was liquid. The vertical ones also leaked just a little as the chickens drank. I'm glad I switched.) The only thing I may have done differently is use a smaller bucket. (5 gal of water is very heavy.) I also make chick waterers, so they learn how to drink from the start & the brooder stays nice & dry.For these I just use things from the recycle bin.


Horiz nipple left vs. vertical nipple on right.
 
I am in the Lanett, Valley (AL) and West Point (GA) area, right on the AL/GA border where I-85 crosses the state line. I'm about 30 miles NE of Auburn.

I have four pure bred English Blue Orpington roosters I want to re-home. These are "large breed fowl" birds and are 18 weeks old. They are a beautiful blue gray on the bottom and the hackles and saddles are black.

I want $20 each and will not ship. The size of the birds and the weather makes shipping out of the question.

If interested, PM me.
I do not have individual photos, they won't hold still.
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Pick the ones you want from the flock, first come first serve.
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