I had to run out and get my tax.
"Lester," the lemon cuckoo now with the buffs. Sorry, I didn't realize it was blurry.
"Buddy" is an older cuckoo rooster, and it's a long story why he's never had a regular silkie cuckoo hen, but he does now. She's not named yet.
And someone mentioned...
That's what we ended up doing last fall, more pens! I only had three and now seven.
The seller told me to put the lemon cuckoo with the buffs I have. Out with Riff, the beautiful buff cuckoo roo, and in with Lester, the lemon cuckoo. We'll see in about a month or so what those make. 🍋
Which breeder do you use for silkies if I may ask? The live ones being flown here the first chance the weather gives a break here is from indigoegg.us
I have hatched some gorgeous buffs and whites from her, but I only got 8 out of two dozen.
I have had eggs shipped here probably 5 out of the 8 years and this year I went wild on breeding stock so had 5 I think it was shipments. Out of a total of 6-dozen eggs, I got about 30%. Years prior, 70%. My own, nearly 100%. This past year was horrific and I've heard it from a lot of...
We just went through a week of -35F. Every winter we get a few weeks of -20F. In the summer, a week or two at most of nearly 100F.
Eight years ago we remodeled one end of an Amish garden shed. It's 5'x12" and kept to 40F all winter long with a thin oil-filled radiator heater. It's vented...
We have one that looks pretty similar except it's totally smooth. I don't know if they still do it but it was from a postage stamp company that gave these away if you bought a certain amount of postage from them to be printed on their labels that they gave you. It was basically a no-lose thing...
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Yes! I'm all for those that let the hens hatch and raise the chicks, but I too rather do it myself. We've had to raise theirs anyway, three times now, when they'd wean them too soon, as young as four weeks old, so they could go be broody again.
A little group of four-week-old...
Govee per chance?
We wound up with five of those. They work great in the brooders too but we wouldn't need five. Hubby grabs them for something and I can't find it so have to order another. I found one in the fridge once, the freezer downstairs once, and when weatherproofing the camper...
Ours stayed locked up yesterday as the windchill was subzero.
Then today, it got up to a "feels like" of 23F, so we let these ones out, and they stuck around the south side of the coop for quite a while before meandering around to free range. We kept the younger ones locked up though in the...