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Bock...Bock....

Wife got home

Okay, here ya go:

The two bright yellow ones are golden sexlinks, or 'golden comets'. They are girls for sure (different sexes come out different). They lay light brown eggs.

The lighter brown ones are Americaunas ('Easter Eggers'). They may lay whitish/ greenish/ or brownish eggs.

The darkest birds are Buff Orpingtons. They also lay light brown eggs.


Dennis, how'd she do?
 
laterob said:
Okay, here ya go:

The two bright yellow ones are golden sexlinks, or 'golden comets'. They are girls for sure (different sexes come out different). They lay light brown eggs.

The lighter brown ones are Americaunas ('Easter Eggers'). They may lay whitish/ greenish/ or brownish eggs.

The darkest birds are Buff Orpingtons. They also lay light brown eggs.


Dennis, how'd she do?
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Those look like sexlinks but I wouldn't have guessed B.O. on the dark ones. I have some that are a few years old now but if I remember correctly they were very yellow chicks. Not positive but that is what I recall.
 
Oops...I switched the Amaricaunas and the B.O.'s. 'Course, you could always just look at your receipt..... TSC rocks, btw. My wife's favorite store nowadays.
 
You hear that?
It's every predator in the county salivating about the chicken dinners to be had at your place!!

It's amazing how many ways chicks find to die when someone first starts with them~ so don't get discouraged if you lose some of these....it's almost surely going to happen, and if it doesn't well then COOL for you!!

I love the chickens. I lost a lot of them when I first started, everything including my own dogs ate chicken! But eventually I got the dogs trained and now I have more chickens than I know what to do with~ at a guess I'd say I have at least 50 to 60 hens at any one time. I only keep three roosters, the rest I process and we eat. I sell eggs at $3.50 and 18 pack, and I incubate and hatch the eggs to sell to the feed store as straight run chicks. If the ones you got from TSC are purebreds they may very well be the breeds Robs wife suggests~ if your TSC is buying from a local breeder (some of them do, it's up to the managers) then those chicks could be just about any breed. I get a lot that look just like that and I've got a LOT of breeds out there all intermixing!

Definitely build a coop or a tractor. That Tractor Rob built is a nice little one~ you'd pay a pretty penny to buy one of those so if your at all handy and he's offering you the plans build that one. Nice little Tractor!

Congrats!
 
Went back to TSC today so I could upgrade their housing from a 55 gal tank to a med sized stock tank. Checked out the labels on the birds.

The black ones are labeled as Golden Laced Wyandotte. The other two were just labeled as Pullets and then on the sign had 6 or 7 possible breeds that they could be. I prolly should have wrote all of them down... but I didn't.

We had a horrible storm blow thru last night (and another one blowing thru now) so I didn't get my ideas down on paper for the coop. Maybe I can get that ironed out tonight.

I've been messing with them just a bit and holding them when I move them over to their new enclosures.... Im hoping it will make tamer birds.
 
So I went yesterday to price some materials at MRS and Lowes. While at lowes I lost my fool mind and decided to take the easy way out. I bought one of the wood storage building kits.... actually I bought two because the one wasn't big enough to do what I wanted to do.

I get it home last night at dark and then this morning I get up and start to unload it.... I keep going down layer after layer and finally get to the bottom. I have all this precut lumber laying out on the ground... and no damn directions on how to assemble it.

If you are considering buying a wooden storage building from Lowes.... AVOID THE ONES MADE BY HEARTLAND (Backyard storage solutions, LLC).

I finally track these folks down online and they have a phone number on their site. The lady has me go out and get the stamps off the end of a few pieces and then says she can email me the instructions on how to put it together.

Turns out to be a 62 page booklet.... but for $998 they should have been included in the damn kit. My printer is still printing it off.... hope like hell I dont run out of ink.

In the end... .my chicken coop will be a 10'w x 20'l x 10't and about 10x15 of it will be for the birds. Im going to build a wire divider and the first 5 foot after you walk thru the doors will be for the humans... for feed and hay storage.

and the saga continues.... but it will have to wait till I get back from watching Fast Five... off I go.
 
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Ugggg the weather is not cooperating on my days off. I have almost got the coop finished, but the weather wont let up long enough for me to get it done. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I do have enough completed to get the birds outside though. They are probably loving the room.

I wont show the outside until I get it done... but here is some updated bird photos. They are growing fast.


All eight of my birds
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**I know he came thru here somehow**
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OK... I'm ready for my close up. Be sure to get my best side.
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Cant ya see I'm resting here?
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Good looking birds!
Now that they are bigger I'm guessing Gold laced wyondottes, red star and white leghorn. Can you get a closer pic of the neck and saddle feathers on the white one with the big comb? I'm thinking you may have a rooster there, he might be old enough to ID by pointy feathers on the neck and saddle.
 
Gold laced wyondottes is correct on the darker ones. That breed was labeled. I dont know what my sex ratio is though... they were straight run.

The white one with the big comb is SUPPOSED to be a hen.... it was bought as a pullet.
 
Cheryl I think you might be right. I went out this morning around 6:45am to feed the chickens and that one was making a god aweful noise. I'm not gonna say it was crowing.... but it was definitely trying to project it's voice... but it sounded like it was horse with a frog in its throat.

I've read that young rooster will TRY to crow before the actually learn how. I wonder if that is what I heard?
 
probably. They sound pretty pitiful with their cracking little boy rooster voices! He'll develop pointy feathers on his neck and saddle if he is, the hens will have rounded feathers there. When they develop you'll be able to see the difference pretty easily.

I've got an adolescent peacock trying to learn to make the WoooWoo sound...took us a few days to figure out it was him, it honest to goodness sounds like someone one drowning a cat MmmeeOOOwwwww! LOL!
 
If I have time tomarrow before work (meaning if I can get up on time) I will try to shoot some video.

It was sold as a pullet... how often are they incorrectly sexed?
 
pretty often, they are very hard to sex unless they are a "Sex link" which causes different colored markings. On birds that the pullets and cockerals are the same color they have to sort of "pop" them only it seems to me much harder than snakes are and what they are seeing is MUCH smaller~ I've tried it with chicks, turkeys and geese....I can't do it~ everything in there looks the same to me and what it usually looks like is a little bird pooping upside down~ and I can pop snakes even little ones no trouble!
 
wonderfull. So far out of the bigger birds that is the only one that seems to be missexed.

Maybe all the straight run's will turn out to be hens.
 
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