Absolutely. We will be putting up heavy duty netting on top for hawks and owls. The panels will be reenforced so we don’t have to deal with coyotes and fox. They will be out there semi permanently. When snow starts flying or temps drop they will be going back to their building. I would...
We have a big well built coop and a few smaller pens built for turn out juveniles Inside of our main coop. Most poultry are a month old and up. We have a nice green pasture right beside our house and want to get them out there. The run is about 20’ x 100’ if not bigger. Some will be laying...
Perfect. That’s great advice thank you! I have a GQF 1500 incubator and honestly usually always have my personal in cartons. I’ve always had great hatch rates. Shipped ones have given me too much anxiety lol! Fingers crossed!
I received fertilized eggs via USPS for the second time ever. Read a bunch about letting them set for 24 hours and did all that. I did read an article that stated candle before putting in to make sure that the air cells are attached. I ordered six they sent nine and nine are detached. I need...
We grind and make our chicken feed ration from local whole grains and buy out vitamins and minerals to make a healthy ration. When I say we I mean my husband that has patience to do all of that! I’m super cautious with my chicks when they hatch! I want to make sure they are getting exactly what...
I’ve been watching rheee for weeks and still not sure what other breed these two are. For sure blue silkie dad. What would the hen be? Mom could be..
Crele Pacenendeca
Light Brahma
Partridge Cochin
Sicilian Buttercup
Blue Breasted brown leghorns
Blue Cochins
At the time of these blues and the white with black barring we didn’t have any of our cuckoos in there except our few cuckoo girls so therefore we had a lot of barred boys. This was one out of our first hatches in Sept! The only barring to my knowledge was the ghost barring in the Smokey pearls...
This is the first boy that was born from the cookies and cream! This is him tonight. You can see the barring. His name is Brother. They are so timid that the other roosters somehow managed to break his leg. I got it amputated and he’s our garage buddy now.
Actually, with this specific Hatch with the blue rooster I have pictured here it was only him and another were the only two cochin cookies and cream crosses. I honestly started seeing it and just kind of ignored it while scratching my head the whole time. But now with the last Hatch we had with...
This particular bird that I posted here has almost a dark brown barring onhackle feather, and I do know that with the isa browns and our cookies and cream rooster, the white roosters, have a orange, almost dark brown leakage. I was leaning towards that one maybe but I just thought that maybe...
With this combination we got paint hens, some with black legs and darker eyes, black hens, white boys with ghost barring. The offspring has been consistent with barring and paints. I even did a silkie combo. Dad blue silkie and mom paint pearl.
Want me to throw in a curveball 🤯 with the cookies and cream rooster I got sex linked blue Cochins. He was our first rooster we started to hatch eggs with. This is the first time I have ever hatched eggs and just didn’t for fun but in the meantime I really got into genetics and is probably one...