The Moonshiner's Chick Chat

[ColtHandorf]

Amen to that! Same happened to me with the last big pen I started last year. I was able to roof half of it properly. The other side got tarps. Everything got pulled inward from the pressure exerted by the tarps. When the tarps came down, I had to hook a 2” ratchet strap to a tree and pull everything back right. I had to notch every ceiling joist to hold the front and back apart at the right distance.

I'm not looking forward to trying to fix it. I'm hoping that screwing in braces will do the trick.

 

[NagemTX]

They are here! I got 4 extra so that puts it at 39 chicks. Two extra gold spangled Spits, one extra silver duckwing Phoenix and one extra lavender Ameraucana.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Where did you get them from?

 

[NagemTX]

Where did you get them from?

Cackle. I really do like them for a hatchery. No deaths all pertty healthy. I have one or two I'll need to watch but so far so good.

Oh and I can really tell the difference between the golden and silver Phoenix. It's very slight but its there.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Cackle. I really do like them for a hatchery. No deaths all pertty healthy. I have one or two I'll need to watch but so far so good.

Oh and I can really tell the difference between the golden and silver Phoenix. It's very slight but its there.

That's neat. I have a hen I'm pretty sure is silver and used to have a silver/gold male I got from them. I think one of their hens might been in the wrong pen by accident.

 

[NagemTX]

That's neat. I have a hen I'm pretty sure is silver and used to have a silver/gold male I got from them. I think one of their hens might been in the wrong pen by accident.

That's neat. I have a hen I'm pretty sure is silver and used to have a silver/gold male I got from them. I think one of their hens might been in the wrong pen by accident.

Pictures of the two side by side.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Pictures of the two side by side.
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Well that makes me doubt that my very obviously silver hen is actually silver. She was never a different shade as a chick

 

[NagemTX]

Well that makes me doubt that my very obviously silver hen is actually silver. She was never a different shade as a chick

I think for most it would be really hard to tell. I'm alittle ADHD when it comes to color.

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

All the leftover cockerels.

They actually weren't! The last time I got some was a few years ago, but I got 3 hens. I still have one of them!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well what the heck are you?!