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[Chicken Rustler]

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CL here ya go this could be yer new guest house !!!!

Dh says by the time we have it hauled here & repair it, it ain't free, plus it is sheetrocked inside, so I bet it is one heavy you-know-what!!!

piece of cake to move as long as ya can get to it with a trailer I could load that real easy but I agree the distance.

 

[Chickielady]

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BCM are the one's that lay the darkest eggs. Oh and its Marans even if your just talking about one bird.. Is that what you wanted to know?

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, and Cuckoo Marans are a breed of Marans chickens originating from Marans, France.
Mine lay very creamy dark brown eggs.
Jumbo.
They are nice, peaceful docile birds as are Blue Copper Marans and Black Copper Marans ans all other flavors(wheaten, birchen, etc)
They all have pink legs & feet (sometimes with a little slate to them in the blue coppers), orange eyes, and all about the same body 'type'.
Plymouth Barred Rocks are an American breed, along with the other colors of PBRs: Buff, white, partridge,barred, silver penciled, etc.
They have orange eyes, and yellow legs & feet.
Their feathers grow slowly, so form a sharply defined black & white barring, whereas the Cuckoo Marans develope faster, and so the barring is blurred.
They lay a nice light brown large egg, are a good dual purpose breed, hardy too.
The Cuckoo Marans are also a sex-linked breed, where the males are much lighter, and the females darker.
You can go on the breeds index listed above & see more on each.
I will get some photos for ya one sunny day...............

 

[Chickielady]

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Welcome back to you too!!

Thanks!
It was super meeting you on Saturday.
The eggs went in the bator yesterday morning.

The little roo is doing great, too.
I appreciate your sharing!!

You are most welcome & call on me if you have any issues...

 

[pattiespeeps]

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HI! We met a few days ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Call upon Ultasol for silkie eggs ???

Welcome to BYC!!

Thankyou for responding. I was happy to meet you and my sister really likes her eggs. We are anxious to hatch them. I will look up Ultasol.
Thanks for the info.

 

[pattiespeeps]

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I like the mouse in the car windshield. He is very cute. He really went to Sams Club with you?

 

[SadieSue]

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Looks like an incredible success and a beautiful day as well. Good thing it wasn't any closer or it would have been a terrible temptation just to, you know, browse...
Congrats! Maybe next year we'll have a car pool of Washingtonians come visit?

 

[ReiMiraa]

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Can you tweek the temp down a hair to 99.6 ?
Your humidity is so high for incubation..but may be OK>>but the temp needs to come down a hair.

I have tried tweaking it but it still reads on my digital 100.4 and 52% humidity. but the manual temp the incubator came with says 98 degrees so i will just leave it alone.

How often does the water tray need refilling? should i just tell mom to check the water every 3 days and just peek at the temp and humidity every day?

 

[SadieSue]

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*I'm* in University Place as well! We just completed our coop a couple of weeks ago and have 4 girls happily occupying it. Research and design is fun and really gets you excited to start building. Good luck to you. This is the place to be if you have any questions!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Thinking about chicken coops I have known, from the tidy layer house that went with the tidy Jersey dairy next door up in Yelm with a dozen tidy laying boxes and one tidy set of roosts, all of it cleaned out weekly and re-whitewashed monthly to the recycled railroad bunkhouse that sat in the oak grove here, on a foundation of 24" log skids, the old bunks used for both roost and laying box (burned down when my Dad's aunt could no longer tell a hawk from a handsaw and "cleaned the dirty mess" with fire) to the stark beauty of a neighbor's fryer house, the whitewash so thick that the interior of the 12X8 red wood-frame barn looked like it was made of adobe. The ones on CL look so flimsy and impermanent by comparison.

Whatever happened to whitewash, anyway: does it only survive in metaphor?

As per usual, since I have labor for chicken coop construction today, it's set in to rain all day with a dessert course of gale-force winds. Life is so unfair, if predictable.

 

[SadieSue]

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BCM are the one's that lay the darkest eggs. Oh and its Marans even if your just talking about one bird.. Is that what you wanted to know?

And your DH is close - it's the Kookabura that sits in the old gum tree, laughing at the monkeys he can see. Although a Cuckoo Marans may do the same if given an opportunity.