Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[sparton]

More mad props to you for working on the partridge. That was too ambitious a project for us. Right now we are battling white toenails. I may have to completely pull that part of the line out. Too bad since I have a really pretty Splash just those darn toes. I will get pictures of them when the weather is nice enough for me to get good head crests- ours have gunked theirs up pretty good..

 

[Hinotori]

More mad props to you for working on the partridge. That was too ambitious a project for us. Right now we are battling white toenails. I may have to completely pull that part of the line out. Too bad since I have a really pretty Splash just those darn toes. I will get pictures of them when the weather is nice enough for me to get good head crests- ours have gunked theirs up pretty good.. 

Double toenails is something I have pop up every now and then. They are the weirdest thing. Moreso than the 6 toes that sometimes can happen. It's always the inner rear toe. Usually only one foot

 

[Hinotori]

This is what I'm working with now. No orange males and most of the boys I've kept are dark.

 

[sparton]

They are stunning. Here is a chick from our latest hatch came from my splash hen and blue rooster. I am gonna have to pull that Splash though if she keeps throwing these toes.. >.< Which is sucky because her crest and colors are stunning.. Just those **** toes.

 

[Hinotori]

They are stunning. Here is a chick from our latest hatch came from my splash hen and blue rooster. I am gonna have to pull that Splash though if she keeps throwing these toes.. >.< Which is sucky because her crest and colors are stunning.. Just those **** toes.

Are they coloring in as the chicks grow older?

 

[pennyJo1960]

So Do I need more wholes in my burlap bags I made?

 

[sparton]

Edited: I went out and checked the suspect hen. The discoloration is on her affected nails and only the underside of her foot. The upper part of her foot is perfectly black.

 

[Hinotori]

So Do I need more wholes in my burlap bags I made?

I wouldn't think so on burlap. I asked about the feed sacks because the weave is pretty waterproof

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: I order rolls of burlap I use it the coop allot to insulate from heat and cold if I mist it
in hot weather it cools quite nicely but borrowed some from my last roll for
potatoes as nothing I buy anymore comes in burlap sacs and wasn't gonna pay
for what I already had

 

[Duck Drover]

My biggest problem has always been keeping records, on who I breed to whom, and when they were set, and after this mess of various eggs hatch, who is whom ?
At this point I see awesome results & have NO IDEA which mating is the result...LOL
And I do this every year, LOL
This year I dug out my hatching baskets to keep eggs separate in the hatching bator...so now I know which egg produced which birds...but even still, then the babies must be marked in some manner so in a month we will still know which are which.
I have always admired a person who can work on one breed, endlessly, undistracted.
I always have so many breeds I am working on that it can get lost....like, my F-2s Barnevelders get lost with a big hatch of F-1 beilefelders, and  F-2 Silver barnevelders....geeze, the babies look so much alike !!
Is that an Exchequer Ameraucana or an Exchequer Spalsh ?

Normally I have more than two hens and I don't know which hen lays which egg so it is a matter of growing them out and keeping the best no matter which hen layed the egg. This is a first for me and it is an unusual project I started and want to see through for my own benefit primarily. I would like to run more hens under the rooster but I am doing what I can with what I have, which is not the best way to go about a breeding project.