🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

[TexasBlues]

Been keeping the temp around 99.5° and humidity in the 25-45 range. This basic hovabator is like steering a boat. I’m adjusting the temps daily and adding water every 3-4 days.
I candled them at 9 days and had 49 good ones and 4 duds. I need to start prepping the brooding area to accommodate 49 possible chicks.
Been selling all the extra hatching eggs being produced.
Re-homed the whiting true blue cockerel to another WTB flock out in the country.

 

[Tstraub]

How are those chicken tractors you built last year working out? I’m needing to come up with some chicken housing for grow outs I’m leaning in the direction of A frame tractors built from some salvaged material I have on hand. Also considering hoop coops from cattle panels but since I don’t have any cattle panels on hand they would be considerably more expensive to build than the A frame style tractors.

 

[TexasBlues]

How are those chicken tractors you built last year working out? I’m needing to come up with some chicken housing for grow outs I’m leaning in the direction of A frame tractors built from some salvaged material I have on hand. Also considering hoop coops from cattle panels but since I don’t have any cattle panels on hand they would be considerably more expensive to build than the A frame style tractors.

I went way too heavy on the lumber and my coop hasn’t moved at all.
Hoop coops seem like a good idea to keep a lightweight frame.

 

[Tstraub]

I went way too heavy on the lumber and my coop hasn’t moved at all.
Hoop coops seem like a good idea to keep a lightweight frame.

Thanks, that was what I was afraid of. I do have a fair amount of lumber here. If an a frame ends up too heavy to move around there isn’t much benefit in making it small. I’ll have to think in it a bit.

 

[TexasBlues]

The hens have been producing well and they have been selling as fast as they can produce them. @wrathsfarm A lot of offers for pure BCM, makes me wish I had kept a good BCM rooster.
Incubator hatch is on day 17. Im looking forward to seeing what offspring these chickens bear. It's been a long year and half to get the project to this point.

Anybody want to guess how many black/penguin chicks hatch out of these 49 eggs? I'm thinking all of the marans will be black,
probably 75% of the olive eggers,
zero% of the pink/brown eggs,
and 100% of the blue eggs.

 

[TexasBlues]

Thanks, that was what I was afraid of. I do have a fair amount of lumber here. If an a frame ends up too heavy to move around there isn’t much benefit in making it small. I’ll have to think in it a bit.

I'd like to have a portable pen for juveniles up to about 12 weeks of age. I have a problem with young birds getting out through the perimeter fence and would like to keep them mainly confined until they're too big to fit through the chain link. I'm trying to find a dog kennel on the cheap that i can wrap in chicken wire.

 

[Tstraub]

I'd like to have a portable pen for juveniles up to about 12 weeks of age. I have a problem with young birds getting out through the perimeter fence and would like to keep them mainly confined until they're too big to fit through the chain link. I'm trying to find a dog kennel on the cheap that i can wrap in chicken wire.

I have been looking around for either a dog kennel or an old trampoline frame that to wrap in some sort of fencing. Haven’t found anything that’s both a price I’m willing to pay and a distance I’m willing to drive to get it.

 

[TexasBlues]

The hatching has started. We got 11 already. I wasn’t expecting them til tomorrow. Several colored ones too.

 

[Tstraub]

The hatching has started. We got 11 already. I wasn’t expecting them til tomorrow. Several colored ones too.

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Congrats

 

[TexasBlues]

Congrats

Thanks! It’s fun to watch em pop out like popcorn.
I have a bad incubator for viewing and pictures . Here’s a view of the different colors coming out. I really thought the black birds would’ve canceled out the roosters pattern.
Humidity has spiked to about 70%