The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

Bounced around yesterday like a crackhead trying to split life stuff with getting some chickening done.
Just quite a few small random stuff accomplished. Seems I'm always terrible at the end of season so come spring things are still a mess. Might not do any better this year but at least I'm thinking about it.
Brooders will start to empty soon so gonna try to stay on top of them and as soon as one is done power clean it and wait for the next one. None of the chick water founts will be used and neither will most of the chick feeders. Gonna collect those eventually and drag them to work to use the good power washer on them. That should be much better then soaking and scrubbing.
Also do the same with the cut down bucket parts that go with those. I use multiple sizes for different ages so I want to organize and inventory those so I can add needed sizes for a good selection and easy access come spring.
Biggest chore I'm not looking forwards to now is breaking up all the breeding groups. That means lots of adults learning to live together again. Need to thin some. Only wanting one rooster pen and one probably two hen pens.
Then it'll be the grow outs. Hate that since it'll mean many will have to go.
Tried to take a few pics yesterday but of course after about 12 failed pics I got the your damn phone is out of memory, please delete a bunch of cr@p before trying to continue.
I'll see if I got at least one decent pic to post today.

 

[BlueBaby]

We are still getting rain over here from those 2 west coast hurricanes coming up from Mexico. The electric has stayed on, but there's flood warning just about all over Arizona. I did wake up to a nice surprise this morning though...

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[NagemTX]

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If I had known before hand I might have gone leghorns before Ameraucana and Spitzhauben.

He's a beauty.

In fact I kick myself daily that I didn't start out with an incubator and hatching eggs. I would have had what I wanted much faster.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If I had known before hand I might have gone leghorns before Ameraucana and Spitzhauben.

He's a beauty.

I'll see about getting another pic. Tomorrow will be busy so Monday. I'll have something to show you about him.

In fact I kick myself daily that I didn't start out with an incubator and hatching eggs. I would have had what I wanted much faster.

So what's this about? Why didn't you start that way? How did you start instead. And why? Just big nosy.

 

[NagemTX]

I'll see about getting another pic. Tomorrow will be busy so Monday. I'll have something to show you about him.

So what's this about? Why didn't you start that way? How did you start instead. And why? Just big nosy.

It didn't even enter my mind at the time. I knew I could order chicks and have them delivered but didn't know I could do that with eggs. Or get even better selection from eggs. Was going off the knowledge I had from 4H in the 90s. So in hindsight I should have spent more time on here than I did. Oh, plus I was terrified of incubating at the time because of all the horror stories I read here as well. It's not so scary now that I have that experience. I just wish I had taken the incubation plunge first now. Lol.

 

[BlueBaby]

@NagemTX better late then never. Go ahead and get some egg's.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It didn't even enter my mind at the time. I knew I could order chicks and have them delivered but didn't know I could do that with eggs. Or get even better selection from eggs. Was going off the knowledge I had from 4H in the 90s. So in hindsight I should have spent more time on here than I did. Oh, plus I was terrified of incubating at the time because of all the horror stories I read here as well. It's not so scary now that I have that experience. I just wish I had taken the incubation plunge first now. Lol.

I didn't know nothing about nothing when I started.
I saw one of these....

In a magazine and ordered it. Came with 5 quail eggs. I think 1 was cracked but anyways I had 1 hatch. Raised it for a few then searched high and low till I found a mate.
Got a little crazy after that.

 

[NagemTX]

@NagemTX better late then never. Go ahead and get some egg's.

I have and it started my project Crested EE from Crevecoeur rooster and Ameraucana hens. Not sure I'll be adding Spitzhauben or not but they where my first choice to make the Crested EE.

I have four off the Crevecoeur x Ameraucana that look how I want them to look. So I might just add more Ameraucana for the rooster and hatch off that. Then breed him back to those and his sisters. Ill need to test any Crested males from that for the blue egg gene being OO instead of Oo.

I really think this well be my only project going forward. The Silver Ameraucana are for having a male Ameraucana to get to the OO egg gene faster. Plus I want them to be silver duckwing as well. Eventually I'll add blue back in. I have a rooster for that already. Then its tring to get them back to not so flighty if I can. Silver Ameraucana are pretty flighty right now. Up there with leghorns actually for flightyness. Plus the rooster i have to add blue is very flighty as well. He's EE and Phoenix but had the muffs, beard and partial pea comb form the EE rooster he came from. I need to have him tested tho.

In a nutshell the Crested EE is the focus project for me now because its what I really wanted.

 

[BlueBaby]

I have and it started my project Crested EE from Crevecoeur rooster and Ameraucana hens. Not sure I'll be adding Spitzhauben or not but they where my first choice to make the Crested EE.

I have four off the Crevecoeur x Ameraucana that look how I want them to look. So I might just add more Ameraucana for the rooster and hatch off that. Then breed him back to those and his sisters. Ill need to test any Crested males from that for the blue egg gene being OO instead of Oo.

I really think this well be my only project going forward. The Silver Ameraucana are for having a male Ameraucana to get to the OO egg gene faster. Plus I want them to be silver duckwing as well. Eventually I'll add blue back in. I have a rooster for that already. Then its tring to get them back to not so flighty if I can. Silver Ameraucana are pretty flighty right now. Up there with leghorns actually for flightyness. Plus the rooster i have to add blue is very flighty as well. He's EE and Phoenix but had the muffs, beard and partial pea comb form the EE rooster he came from. I need to have him tested tho.

In a nutshell the Crested EE is the focus project for me now because its what I really wanted.

Well, good luck with your project.