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[justbugged]

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Need chest waders and your FOWL weather gear

I had the same thought.

I hope that you are up to the challenge Pete.

 

[Chickielady]

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Want chocolate brown colored Cochins?

Breed Buff to Black.

Not all buffs have it, but often buffs will have what is called "dun" in them. It is a chocolate colored gene that works the same blue does, but the "dun" version of it looks exactly like chocolate. The khaki version, much like the splash version of blue, is very pale, an almost dusty color.

Black x Dun = 50% Dun 50% Black
Dun x Dun = 50% Dun 25% Black 25% Khaki
Dun x Khaki = 50% Dun 50% Khaki
Khaki x Black = 100% Dun

Here's an example of what dun looks like.

(Credit to and bird owned by Tony)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5806_dscf3093.jpg

And Khaki:

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Polish/WCKhakiPolBtyC.JPEG

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/SUNSETS42/P1050088.jpg

Anyway, you can try with Buffs to extract the dun from them. IF they have it. Some don't.

I was told the light khaki is actually a lavender...and I know the Lemon Blue Cochins have a dominate R/B and RRF told me she got alot of dun chicks from the lemon blue pair and a splash Cochin...so I was thinking..hmmmmmm ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Not flooded here, but gosh, I felt like I was sweeping out a flooded hallway today. Had to take a broom and sweep out all the dirty, mucky water from the nesting room. Poor hens currently have a nesting room that has been leaking for some time, so I often need to sweep the water out. (the floor is cement)

This exact thing is why I'm hoping my DH gets home soon. The foundation at the barn that I manage was never sealed/finished, so water seeps in under the framework... I curently gave the hay sand bagged to ceep the seepage off of it. But you just never know. I would hate to loose the bottom of the hay stack to rain.

So much for a day off with no curly haired little monster--- I mean angel running around ???

 

[Chickielady]

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JB: FYI: The big boxes go outside for free to whomever at about 1 to 2 a week. Then they disapear.
They are 20 feet long and are very heavy even cut in half.
I think if you wanted 5 or 6 (that would be 12 ten foot long boxes) that you would have to have them hold them for you, and they probably would stock pile a few at a time.
They spray painted my name on a few.
I can go ask on Monday, OK ??
Other wise DH and I would have to go cut a bunch in half and stockpile them here THEN you could come get them.
We can haul 1 box at a time in our little trailer.
And it hangs out 2 feet.

I would appreciate if you could ask on Monday. I do have a sawzall that I could bring to cut the boxes with. I am really going to need help though. I hope that there will be at least two or three of us to go in on this together. how tall and wide are the boxes? I think that I would want to fill the Uhaul truck if I can.

Sitting on the ground, about 2 feet tall, and they have 4x4 "legs" underneath for a forklift to pick them up with...and they are about 2 foot wide and 20 feet long.
Pipes come in them, special ss pipes.
We can come down and help cut them with you.
I will get down and ask as soon as possible, maybe Tuesday as gotta go to Mom & Dad's the other way on Monday...Get a U haul and you can carry quite a few of these cut in 10 foot sections, but U hauls are expensive..maybe a U haul cargo van or pickup ?

 

[Illia]

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What Cochins are we talking about here? I'm lost.

I was talking about dun and khaki in general. There are no dun or khaki Cochins though. And Lavender as well as Splash are completely separate.

Now, it is true, that blue/splash birds can over time get a khaki colored haze on their blue feathers. Especially cockerels. But that doesn't make them khaki or dun birds.

 

[Petej]

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Need chest waders and your FOWL weather gear

I had the same thought.

I hope that you are up to the challenge Pete.

The back yard is a hill, but the top is nice and level. Getting up the hill is the big challenge. That's where the rabbit cages are. Rabbit poo + rain = slick as snot on a glass door knob....

The chickens are all hiding in the wood shed. They ran out from the coop when I went outside to feed everyone and decided that it wasn't worth going thru the mud back to the coop! Pansies.

I had the FOWL weather gear on and still got soaked. Rain doesn't keep you dry, it's keeps you dry-er....than without it....

 

[Chickielady]

http://chocolateorpingtonchicken.com/

Cloverleaf Farm: Look at all these varieties of ""Crele""

 

[Chickielady]

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I had the same thought.

I hope that you are up to the challenge Pete.

The back yard is a hill, but the top is nice and level. Getting up the hill is the big challenge. That's where the rabbit cages are. Rabbit poo + rain = slick as snot on a glass door knob....

The chickens are all hiding in the wood shed. They ran out from the coop when I went outside to feed everyone and decided that it wasn't worth going thru the mud back to the coop! Pansies.

I had the FOWL weather gear on and still got soaked. Rain doesn't keep you dry, it's keeps you dry-er....than without it....

I gave up. I do not even wear raingear unless we are sitting out fishing all day...then I have rubber bibs and a Grundens Hat.
Now, it is a balmy heat wave of 55 degress, and I am in shorts, rubber muck boots and a tank top. I dry faster that way

I have trays under my bunny cages so not bunny snot on the ground...but this clay with chicken doo-die on it is indeed like snot with ice on it !!!
You got the same clay slickery clay !!

 

[Chickielady]

oh, gotta go close coops, etc but first, the joke of the day::

DH just reported out of the Elma retirement newsletter:::
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks, so watch your A#$ !!!!!

 

[Petej]

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I am using old chicken breeding cages until I can butcher them out next week. I could use pans, but that's too much work for the short time we've had them.

I do have some baby bunnies for sale, seeming as the rabbits were all put in the same pen for a couple weeks. The babies will not be butchered.

Yep, we have the same clay here in the peninsula! Everyone thinks "it's the beach, there's no clay there!", you would be gravely mistaken.....