YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

Another day of coop building here. I swear I'm becoming addicted to it. Anything I see I'm like 'how can I turn that into a coop' lol every weekend at my house has become an episode of 'Extreme Home Makeover: Chicken Coop Edition.'

Hahahaha! I have added on to my coop 3 or 4 times! Bigger and Bigger...more and more chickens!

 

[Kyochan]

@flowerbh. That's my issue. I just keep coming up with ways to improve the coops and getting unwanted chicks! We went out to the barn about two hours ago and found a hen with 4 babies in the tack room! Then we heard peeping and not only did we find a dead chick that fell from the hens hidden barn rafter nest but also an alive baby trapped up there. Unfortunately the mama coldly refused to take the baby and we had to bring it inside so I had to redneck rig a second brooders since sp00n is to big to share!

 

[Crow at the Sun]

Post pictures!!!

 

[Jharper]

Love the mottled japs! Where did you get them from?

 

[Crow at the Sun]

Love the mottled japs! Where did you get them from?

Got them from a woman in Greenville. Just outside of LaGrange. She had many different types! So these are mottled then? I just remember her saying black japs...lol anyway, thought they were real cool. Got the roo so they could mate. The woman said they can't be mated with other breeds? That true?

 

[Jharper]

Got them from a woman in Greenville. Just outside of LaGrange. She had many different types! So these are mottled then? I just remember her saying black japs...lol anyway, thought they were real cool. Got the roo so they could mate. The woman said they can't be mated with other breeds? That true?

If you don't want mix-breeds.

 

[Crow at the Sun]

I got the mixed flock thing going on because that exactly what I'd like. Mixed breeds. I just figured she meant bantam hens can't be mated by other larger birds (physically I guess).

 

[farmerChef]

They are small and short legged, it wouldnt be easy for them to breed with something other than another small bantam, like Seramas.
A small percentage will die in shell if they get 2 copies of the short leg gene, its a lethal gene like the tufts on the araucanas. I do not personally have any, but I do know someone who shows them, and they said they are hard to breed to standard because you can only show the short ones. Again, like the Araucana, you can only show the rumpless double tufted ones, which makes for alot of breeding culls, its why they arent common and the showable birds are expensive.

 

[beckyb1971]

we have a few chickens for sale around haralson county, we have 2 brxdom hens, dom roo, 3 mahogany rir roos, 1 ee 3 months old, 1 ee hen 1 ee roo

 

[Viollettt]

I would love to free range, but can't due to the hawks (and coyotes etc) in my area. The other day Hubby and I looked up to see 9....yes we both counted 9 full sized hawks flying a tight circle over my coop. I have built a mini Fort Knox of a coop with buried hardware mesh secured to the same on all surrounding walls, vents, windows and over the entire run top. My 2 GH and 100 pound English Black Lab have sounded the alert and chased off the only 2 hawks that dared to land on the run roof. I hope the best for you and yours, I 'can't imagine seeing that happen right
in front of me.

Well mine free range in the yard with fencing. I have a bunch of trees and bushes but am just now getting worried. I would hate for them to suddenly be cooped up all the time. They have really gotten smart and I haven't lost any of them to hawks. Yet. I've seen a coyote a few blocks away but they can't get to them at night, at least. We did have a neighbor's dog that got in but I guess you live and learn. We fixed the fence. Thanks for the good wishes.