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[Rainwolf]

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So tiny !
If you let go will the little boogers just fly straight away ?
He looks like he wants to...maybe Justbugged needs some more little birdies in her cage.
Do you set any free ?
I am planning on getting dozens of ring neck pheasant and chuckar partridge eggs, maybe some wild turkey eggs too, from Dad-in-law and set them free out here.
We live across the street from a huge brackish marsh that has grasses up to 5 foot tall in summer, all surrounding the river and it is a protected flood-zone and wildlife area...awesome...never will be built upon.
I'd love to set native species free.

NO NO NO!!!! I do not need any more little birdies in the flight cage. It is full, and DH has to steal eggs, so that nobody else will get hatched and want us to feed them.

awwwww come on... ya know ya need just 1 more pair

 

[Chickielady]

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NO NO NO!!!! I do not need any more little birdies in the flight cage. It is full, and DH has to steal eggs, so that nobody else will get hatched and want us to feed them.

awwwww come on... ya know ya need just 1 more pair

 

[Chickielady]

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[Illia]

WOW I need to get another photo of my Buff Ameraucanas on here. . . Seriously, with all this battering rain and wind, they look worse than my Polish. And that's saying something.

Because of their solid golden plumage but rather pale underfluff, their feathers taper out into little strings of "gold," exposing a lot of creamy white fluff underneath. Even my cockerel's secondary feathers look like pins. . . They're SO pathetic looking. . .

 

[Chickielady]

I worked all day on an addition to the "old" original coop I made a year ago...which was a wicciup of sorts as we got out of the van and the hens had no where to coop...so this is pics of the addition, and some extras.

I know it is expensive, at $32 a sheet at home dept...this carbon fiber-double coregated panel is excellent for all applications for light ! and it is insulated due to it's double wall, and with the size of a sheet, you can not only make sky lights like this in your coops, but use it for windows....and for ventilation I use this:

and here is another photo of Madelynbelle baby, blue copper marans cockeral, whose eggs we are testing...

and a shot from up on the roof, and another shot from in one incubator

It is so light inside

Blue Copper Marans eggs..........Blue, Black & Splash.
In this instance, Roscoe is top roo, he is a blue copper roo, on 2 blue and 1 black and 4 splash hens....they are feather shanked and very mellow, and have awesome huge dark eggs.
Anyway you can see that at $32 a sheet may sound outrageous, but so much cheaper than a window and we put this one in the roof like a skylight and it is so excellent...so much light in there now...it is a simple build up roof system done with caulking.
and we have another 5 feet of the material to make windows with.
Great buy!

 

[Chickielady]

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Illia look at my blue man here...he has the same whitish-undercovering...geeze the big guy looks so white when his top feathers are wet...

 

[Illia]

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Are your Blue and Splash Marans dirty or do they have color leakage?

Yes, blue birds, especially males, look terrible in the wet.

 

[LaSombra]

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That is great! Thanks for sharing

I just posted it on facebook

 

[Chickielady]

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Are your Blue and Splash Marans dirty or do they have color leakage?

Yes, blue birds, especially males, look terrible in the wet.

Dirty !
I have dirty birds !
This has to be the clay mud capital of the world.
And the 2 roos are on top of the situation...we actually make fun of the "Splash Maran" name after so many are muddy after a good day of mating.
Such happens, with white hens, white dogs, and white carpeting

 

[Chickielady]

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That is great! Thanks for sharing

I just posted it on facebook

Glad you all have enjoyed, I almost cried !!!
My galpal sent from Canada~