not particularly a happy camper this evening.
for the last several days, I've been working on my old farm tractor. A year ago I pulled all the sheet metal off of it, and it's taken me this long to get it all stripped down, and painted. Add in buying a 90 year old house that I spent 3 months remodeling, and of course building our coop and buying some chickens. But when we moved, we downsized, house and storage buildings. I also built another storage building. it came time to get the tractor back together, because the parts all over are seriously hindering getting everything organized and put in it's place. So that's what I've done the last several days. Making progress on it, and for anyone who's interested when I finish, I'll post before and after pics, but I digress.
I said all that to say that other than checking feed and water, cleaning the poop tray and getting the apron down around the coop and run, I haven't spent any time with the chickens. Well except for going down each night to make sure they were all inside, and up on the roost.
So this evening, while I was in there, I decided I'd check them over good, since I haven't done that in a while. I knew when I bought the straight run blue ameraucanas there was a 50/50 chance of roo/pullet. So out of the 8, it does indeed look like I have 4 and 4, though I'm still not convinced on two of them, LOL. BUT the white leghorns and black australorps were all supposed to be pullets I picked up at TSC......appears that one of each of them is also a rooster, more plain on the aussie than the leghorn, and I'm not happy. so out of 14 chickens I have 6 roosters. I am keeping one blue, donating a rooster to my grand daughters flock. I expected all the TSC chicks to be pullets. ok, if ONE of them wound up being a he, well ok it's only 95% , but 2 out of 6........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I guess this is going to give me room to add a few other breeds once I thin them down. I'm tempted to keep the aussie rooster, I've read breeding a brown egg gene rooster to a white gene egg hen will give me pink eggs, anyone verify that?
here's a couple pics, for what they are with it dark and an iphone camera:
the leghorn. Can't tell it in this pic, but smaller body, much longer tail. This is at 8 weeks and I do believe those are the wattles coming in? Tho it doesn't seem to have much of a comb yet
now the australorp, definitely a comb and wattles, and this one is supposed to be 7 weeks:
well the picture didn't show the wattles that good, but it's more than just the comb. This chicken's body is a lot smaller, and the tail is thinner and long.
as for the AM's,
pictures shmictures, hop ya happy tail in ya car and drive over here, LOL I'm only 10 minutes from ya
well fine!!
I understand it more of a meeting than a view event iam suppose to meet shades of sable there to purchase some chicks Rhode island red roo only 8weeks old look good on picture she sent me and a unsexed silkie to keep him company until my little ckick are a little older they are only one week old just need to know location .
