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Finally going to fetch the flock this Sunday and bring them to the farm

In the bottom photo there is no doubt that the Asil is the dad for most of them, just look at those little dinosaurs.

I miss my chickens dearly, havent seen them in 5 months. Since the last update I have sold the barred chickens(potch Koekoek), the jubilee coloured hens(Boschvelder) and the adult Indian game Roo and hen. The building on the farm have been a rollercoaster ride of note, thing are only starting...

The one silkie also decided to go broody, she has some Asil x RIR and Asil x Buff Sussex underneath her

The move is around the corner, just a little more then 30 days remaining. Last night I couldn't find the one hen when I went to go and close the coop. I wasn't worried about her and knew she went of to go and brood somewhere, she is my best forager of the lot. A Small hen, can fly well and very...

Thank you very much, it is quite frightening, but we are looking forward to it

For now I will not be putting anymore eggs in the incubator. We will be going away for a month and upon our return we will immediately move to the farm. If a hen does go broody, I will have a few Aseel cross eggs be put under her. Timelines are tough, we are not near ready at the farm, while...

My Indian game hen also sat on 6 eggs and hatched 5. One of them looked very week and didn't make it. Seeing how young both she and the Indian game roo is, I'm quite satisfied with the progress thus far.

Things have been quite hectic at work. So my Pekin hatched out 5 babies. I hatched out another 5 in the incubator at the same time. She adopted the other 5 and looked after the 10 extremely well. 7 of those were pure Indian game and the other 3 could be anything. Past Saturday night we had a...

I'm still trying to get an American game, OEG or Sumatra, but I did get a nice young Asil stag. Have him in with the buff Sussex, RIR, Koekoek and Boschvelder. Will give it some time and then start hatching some eggs. Currently I have a bunch of mixed eggs in the incubator. Some Koekoek rooster...

At first I thought of not bothering getting an incubator as I want broodiness in my flock and will just use the broody hens to be the moms. However I need to get my flock going and in order to do that I need to churn out more chicks now then when my flock is established and I just want to...

So the Indian game pullet started laying. I decided to move one boschvelder and one koekoek hen in with them so that I can hatch a bunch of eggs at the same time

I may have gotten hold of a Sumatra rooster and an American game pair. I just need to find a courier that goes past those areas.

I couldn't get Vendas or Ovambos, so I got 3 Boschvelder older hens.

Enjoying the day out in the foodforest. Everything is starting to wake up and grow again after the heavy frosts

Elvis is getting more and more handsome everyday.

I got a great offer for all the remaining Sussex I have, they will be leaving shortly. Im planning to get some more indigenous pullets, either some Herero, Ovambo or Venda, they are however very scarce. If im not able to, I will be getting some Boschvelders again(they were bred out of Ovambo...

3 of the new Pullets. They look a little worse for wear but we will get their conditioning up. This one looks to have some Wyandotte in her, Wont be taking her genetics forward, but for now we need the eggs.

Got the new pullets in a hurry, only got time now 20:00 to put them in their coop(separate from the rest) gave them my normal new chicken treatment, 1ml ivermectin on the back of the neck. I then saw this poor one, the worst case of scaly leg mites I have ever seen. Treated with wound oil...