8x30 American Coop (Carolina Coops) build - pix heavy

[NanaK]

We did have a bit of progress yesterday, one lavender americana made it to the 2nd ladder step, maybe today it will be the 3rd step

Glad they are making progress! In no time they will be using every square inch. Go girlies!

You have a beautiful flock!

 

[John Canfield]

Thank you Nana - that's very kind of you to say!

Got a good pix of two of our mystery girls, the white one on the left and the one on the right with the white wing tips. Feather shading looks like a blue americana but the body shape is completely different from our five blues.

 

[Iluveggers]

Thank you Nana - that's very kind of you to say!

Got a good pix of two of our mystery girls, the white one on the left and the one on the right with the white wing tips. Feather shading looks like a blue americana but the body shape is completely different from our five blues.

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Black one with white tips almost looks like an Andalusian to me…

 

[NanaK]

What does her comb look like?

 

[John Canfield]

I'll try to get better pix of her. I checked Cackle and there is no mention of them raising Andalusians for sale so that's another mystery.

 

[NanaK]

I wonder if you white mystery lady is a White Chantecler? I see that breed listed on Cackles site.

 

[John Canfield]

That's a very close match! Here's a pix of a few of the chicks, I think the light/white colored one is our cream colored girl (wife calls her cream colored, I have a very limited color pallet LOL.)

Still no girls brave enough to enter the run but a lavender looks out the door every so often so we're betting she'll be the first.

Got the overhead LED light installed in the run in case we need to be there in the dark for whatever reason.

Cackle placed a green mark on the 'rare' chick assortment. They marked the americanas under the chin.

 

[3KillerBs]

Cackle placed a green mark on the 'rare' chick assortment. They marked the americanas under the chin.

You can use colored zipties as leg bands to tell breeds and individuals apart.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/leg-banding-with-zipties.68075/

 

[Iluveggers]

I didn’t see any Eggers listed as “rare breeds” on cackles website. Under rare, this Sumatra is the only thing that resembles your chick at all.

 

[John Canfield]

Got the Chicken Guard auto door installed, the premium model. Bought this with the coop from Carolina Coops. They provide a pre-made insert to fit inside a wall opening for the auto door.

Added a small platform to the top chicken step (looks like a diving board) per some advice here on BYC. Forgot to take a pix of that.

Few more pix...

Chicken Guard door installed with some help from the pup. He's keeping the squirrels away.

Who you lookin' at?

Dear wife thinks this is a Golden Lace Wyandotte instead of a Wellsummer - I think she might be correct. Whatever breed it is, it's beautiful.

A much better view of the mystery 'Creamy'

Blue Sumatra?

--end-- ..not the end! Look what I found on Cackle:

Cackle's Blue Sumatra. Full credit to Cackle for the image.