Lets talk yardbird

[baboon]

Google "spent hens" - if you are brave.

Stew hens are what they are called in a grocery store! Really old or poor folks use to ask for them.

 

[baboon]

Hell, I thought this thread was about workers at a shipyard. We were called "Yardbirds".

I didn't figure it was about Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.

 

[BRD@66]

Hell, I thought this thread was about workers at a shipyard. We were called "Yardbirds".

Would that be Yardbirdors?

 

[TxStetson]

Hell, I thought this thread was about workers at a shipyard. We were called "Yardbirds".

I usually had a colorful adjective to go along with that term.

 

[easy rider]

Would that be Yardbirdors?

I hope I see you at the reunion!

 

[easy rider]

I usually had a colorful adjective to go along with that term.

I won't go into all the adjectives we had for sailors.

 

[jordanmills]

Stew hens are what they are called in a grocery store! Really old or poor folks use to ask for them.

Or people who want chicken that tastes like chicken. They almost always have more and deeper flavor.

 

[jordanmills]

We had some Chinese chickens that laid green eggs.

I've been doing some research on chicken genetics wrt egg color. It's pretty neat. Apparently, there are only two gene sites that determine egg color, brown and blue (these are two separate genes on separate chromosomes, so you have two brown/white genes and two blue/white genes - it's not like base eye color in humans, where it's two brown/blue genes).

Blue color is added as the shell is formed, brown color is added as the egg is finished and about to be laid. Both of them are dominant. With a non-expressing gene at both sites, you get white eggs. With one expressing gene for brown and none for blue, you get light brown eggs. With two brown, darker brown eggs. Same with one or two blues with no brown, light blue or dark blue eggs. Mixing brown and blue at the same time gets you shades of olive.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

If you really want to mess with your neighbor....

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[TheDan]

Running an electric fence around the pen at about nose height to a raccoon works great for keeping the varmints out.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Thanks for the info gents. I think we'll press forward in the spring with a coop.

 

[deemus]

Why for the dogs?

old and tough

Glad to see you are going to do it. The kids will enjoy it, its kind of cool and fun to watch them. And the fresh eggs make it worthwhile.

 

[FireInTheWire]

old and tough

Glad to see you are going to do it. The kids will enjoy it, its kind of cool and fun to watch them. And the fresh eggs make it worthwhile.

Fresh eggs are so rich. They are the best!

 

[jrbfishn]

Duck eggs are even richer. Speaking of which, I really need to talk to Dan. Been a while.

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[jordanmills]

Thanks for the info gents. I think we'll press forward in the spring with a coop.

Get started sooner than you think. It won't go as easy as you expect it to. Also, even though most people assume that birds can perch on round dowels easily because most sticks are round, chickens seem to prefer square perches like a 1x1.

Keep us posted with what you make and what birds you get.

 

[digger]

 

[FireInTheWire]

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Lol!! Good one man! made us laugh!! We love chicken tenders too...

 

[texasnurse]

Chickens equal= rat snakes they love eggs and chicks.


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[texasnurse]

I've been doing some research on chicken genetics wrt egg color. It's pretty neat. Apparently, there are only two gene sites that determine egg color, brown and blue (these are two separate genes on separate chromosomes, so you have two brown/white genes and two blue/white genes - it's not like base eye color in humans, where it's two brown/blue genes).

Blue color is added as the shell is formed, brown color is added as the egg is finished and about to be laid. Both of them are dominant. With a non-expressing gene at both sites, you get white eggs. With one expressing gene for brown and none for blue, you get light brown eggs. With two brown, darker brown eggs. Same with one or two blues with no brown, light blue or dark blue eggs. Mixing brown and blue at the same time gets you shades of olive.

araucana lay blue-green eggs.


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[karlac]

Thanks for the info gents. I think we'll press forward in the spring with a coop.

If you need some coop plans or ideas, give me a shout. Built dozens of them down through the years, many portable and for small enclosures/urban use with a view toward predator resistance.

Here's an example

Most of the plans were done in SketchUp, which has a free web version and/or viewer available, but I can also print them out easily in pdf format. No charge ...

Built this for a neighbor up here in AR last summer who keeps about a dozen banty chickens. Although he's got plenty of land to let them free range during the day, being in a rural area they are in dire need of predator protection at night.

So far he hasn't lost one since I did this one with an enclosed run for him