On the CX note. I raised 5 dif batches Last year. The first was bought at RK, then I placed orders for the rest of the batches from RK with no issues with any of the chicks. I raised them in a frame tractors that got moved daily (when bigger x2 moves a day). They turned out awesome. I can't wait...
Picked up 8 quality black copper maran week old chicks today!!
Been wanting them for awhile now.
Chick count to date is
Brooder
4-EE's
6-Sussex
4-ISA Browns
10-light brahma's
2-cuckoo Marans
2-black australorps
3-barred rocks
8-black copper Marans
Eggs In the incubator
8-cuckoo maran
4-LF...
Any ideas? I'm trying to post pics from my iPhone. All I'm getting when I hit upload from my device is a big cancel button then it doesn't do anything. Won't bring up my photos or nothing??
I just bought 22 chicks cuckoo Marans, light brahma's, and Sussex. And then 10 hatching eggs cuckoo Marans and favaroll large fowl. Yesterday from a wonderful husband and wife from the Hicksville area. Great people and had a lot of chicks hatching. She does ship eggs also.
It is true I am still alive!!
How has everyone been. Already have a couple (9) chicks in the brooder. If anyone is looking for scovys let me know I'm getting over run by them lol. I have a few that I would like to get rid of perhaps trade for some young layer pullets. Other than that been the...
Would like to thank you for the BLRW and bonus partridge Brahma's!! They are all nice looking!! I have been looking for BLRW for a few years and never could come up with any, so thanks again.
These did great today. The only birds we have issues with is the darn Turkeys!! They don't ever go in by themselves at night. They will sleep all together in a ball right outside the coop door lol..
Let our barnyard mix chicks out of the grow out pen to freerange today!!! They are liking the fresh grass and freedom. None of them have ventured out to far lol
Bittersweet day today! We sold all 3 of our horses... We just didn't give them the attention they needed or deserved and to be honest our farm is going in a different direction than horses. This is not a situation like we bought them and then figured out we didn't want them anymore. They kinda...
Ok here is the bresse chick count so far!
22 out of the incubator, three that I helped out and still in the bator, Those three are doing good just need to fluff up. Still a few eggs to go and had a few quitters... They all look great!
Got a question for racinchickins??
What's up with this chick...
Do MW's breed and go broody vet often? Our BBB's are awesome turkeys and would like to try the MW's! We had our first Tom trying to strut yesterday, funniest thing ever!
Nope, I would say they are to heavy for anything to lift. If you were to use hardware cloth that would make them even safer. But even with my set up I have had no predator loss. I use a good latch and hinges on the door.
In the cooler weather overnight lows of 35/40's at 3 weeks
Two weeks old with overnight lows above 40.
I kept a lamp on them at night for the first few days. The CX seem to be a very (heat producing) bird. They don't seem to mind it a bit cooler than warmer.
If anyone builds there own take on...
I'm with you. We have a couple hogs to butcher in a week. This fall our calf goes in. Plus turkeys and CX. We just bought a chest freezer from Sears today. Heck of a sale going on right now if anyone needs appliances!
For those of you interested in my CX tractors I can try to explain the way I built them. I didn't write anything down just put them together in my head (I tend to do my projects this way).
I used 2x4's for the base its 8' long by 7'6" wide. I set the front 2x4 back 6" and cut a angle the...