Silver Pullet Poultry

Well another Spring is here! Weather has been nice, but very windy, making chores hard. Hubby has been hard at work on my brooder house, totally gutting the building down to the frame, putting on a new metal roof to match the house roof, new siding (concrete) that matches the house. Beautiful new door with a window in it that can be opened, a window in the back for cross ventilation. This building will have counter space and some storage space but will have mostly my brooder cages and show conditioning cages. Once completed, (he has a deadline of August 31st.) This will have all 4 of my large fowl show cages to prep large fowl for the shows, 8 of the bantam show cages, my 2 dog kennel cages stacked, on rollers for brooding chicks, the 3 tiered metal rabbit cages for trios or pairs to condition for show, and all along the other wall, above the large fowl show cages near the floor, there will be 2 rows of built in wooden cages, plastic mesh fronts, and will be 2x4 each, but able to add in dividers to make each section 2x2, so I could add 12 more birds in for show conditioning. But they are meant for raising chicks.

Birds have been doing a lot of brooding and I still have a quad of Whites for sale. The blue and blacks sale is pending still. If no interest in the whites by the beginning of June, I will list on Eggbid. Shipping will be a lot, as I do not over crowd my birds into boxes. I  can fit a trio into a larger Omni box, and can ship the other one seperate in a single stall. Shipping would likely run about $110.

Been hatching chicks, got some strange ones, some are born white out of the black pen, and have pink skin for a while, but that quickly disappears and they do get dark. Also still getting silver gened white chicks out of the black birds, they carry silver very nicely no gold here! My buff birds are producing well, got a bunch out of my Paradise cock, and a few out of my new red roo, but now am getting some from the red pen again. Some birds are getting a lot of black in them, but it seems to disappear as they get older. Very nice color. The red bird is in with the two lightest buffs I have, hopefully he will pass on his genetics to his offspring. Partridge is always a possibility with the buffs.

Plan to catch up with Connie int he fall and trade some birds, cannot wait!