BarnYard Mix Rainbow Flock Hatching eggs for Sale

The Foxy Chicken is now selling its beautiful BarnYard Rainbow Flock Hatching eggs 

These are our own eggs.  

Rainbow Eggs

"We don't even have to color them Mom!"

That is what we hear when children see our BarnYard Rainbow Flock eggs for the first time.  Here is your chance to make every day an Easter Egg hunt.  What colors will you find today?

Our Rainbow Yard Flock is made up of several breeds that we have kept simply because they were pretty and created a colorful egg.  We call it the Rainbow flock because well......look at the eggs!  :)

The Breeds include:

Ameraucanas
Easter Eggers
Copper Marans
White Rocks
White Cochin
Olive Eggers
Brahma /EE
Lavender Ameraucanas
Splash Ameraucanas
Cochin/Lavender Ameraucanas

Roosters:
Blue Splash Ameraucana

Splash Ameraucana
White Cochin
Copper Maran

Have a look at our Fun Rainbow flock and let us know what you think.

Everyday is an Easter Egg Hunt!

Email us for Hatching Egg Availability or visit/follow us on Facebook at The Foxy Chicken 

BarnYard Rainbow Flock Hatching eggs are $35 per dozen.  Shipping is included.

We can send you a PayPal invoice to make payment.

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Shipped safely

Our eggs are shipped using a method that we believe provides the greatest chance for high hatch rates.  We have been online sellers of fragile items for years.  We've shipped thousands of items with damages only in our first year.  Shipping expertise has given us an edge in the shipping of hatching eggs globally.  Our method is simple and we hope that many breeders will start using it too.  HERE is a link to a video of how we ship our eggs at the Foxy Chicken. 

Disclaimer and Guarantee:

We cannot guarantee hatch rate.  Hatch rates are determined by many factors.  Most of those factors are during the 21 day incubation process.  We guarantee against breakage.  If any of your eggs are broken or cracked upon arrival, we will replace them or refund you for the egg.  Depending on egg availability.

Please make sure you rest your eggs for minimum of 24 hours after arriving, large side up, prior to incubation.

Although there are no hatch guarantees:
Please know that we at the Foxy Chicken are not doing this for the money.  We truly enjoy introducing chickens to families all over the US.  Nothing gives us more pleasure than to see children and adults alike sitting in front of an incubator awaiting that chirping day.
If you have a poor experience with our eggs, we will do what we can to help you hatch some eggs.  

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Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Hatching eggs for sale

The Foxy Chicken is now selling its beautiful BLRW eggs to the public

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Hatching eggs for sale

"Oh, WOW....What is that!?"

That is what we hear every time someone sees a BLRW for the first time.  Now is the time to own a chicken breed that turns heads.  Blue is in.  What is better than blue?  Lacing!

Our Blue laced red Wyandottes are not only pleasing to the eyes, but they are also a very friendly breed.  A tri-purpose bird.  Not only can they provide meat, and eggs, but they make wonderful pets.  A hearty bird that handles the cold easily.

Our breeding line of BLRW have been hand selected so you can expect crisp lacing and wonderful blues from your eggs.  Our breeding pen has two roosters covering five hens.  The dominant breeding rooster has strong deep blues, a great comb and the shape we have come to love.  The back up roo is a black lace.  He is not breeding yet due to his young age.  The hens include 3 crisp blues, 1 splash, and 1 crisp black laced.  This selected color blend is exactly what we were aiming for to give us crisp colors and random splashes to spice things up.

"A bird of curves"

The BLRW is a full figured bird.  Known as the bird of curves, they have a great full curvy shape and fluffy feathers.  

Fertilized

We are seeing 100% fertilization.  We have tested eggs quite often and every egg we have placed in the incubator were fertile.  We do not guarantee 100%.  But, we have done all we can to make sure the hens are being covered properly.

Have a look at our breeders and let us know what you think.

 

Email us for Hatching Egg Availability or visit/follow us on Facebook at The Foxy Chicken 

BLRW Hatching eggs are $65 per dozen.  Shipping is included.

We can send you a PayPal invoice to make payment.

Message us HERE

Shipped safely

Our eggs are shipped using a method that we believe provides the greatest chance for high hatch rates.  We have been online sellers of fragile items for years.  We've shipped thousands of items with damages only in our first year.  Shipping expertise has given us an edge in the shipping of hatching eggs globally.  

Disclaimer and Guarantee:

We cannot guarantee hatch rate.  Hatch rates are determined by many factors.  Most of those factors are during the 21 day incubation process.  We guarantee against breakage.  If any of your eggs are broken or cracked upon arrival, we will replace them or refund you for the egg.  Depending on egg availability.

Please make sure you rest your eggs for minimum of 24 hours after arriving, large side up, prior to incubation.

Although there are no hatch guarantees:
Please know that we at the Foxy Chicken are not doing this for the money.  We truly enjoy introducing chickens to families all over the US.  Nothing gives us more pleasure than to see children and adults alike sitting in front of an incubator awaiting that chirping day.
If you have a poor experience with our eggs, we will do what we can to help you hatch some eggs.  

Message us HERE
Follow us on Facebook HERE 

Chicken Run Grazing boxes

DIY Chicken run grazing boxes

Nothing is better than natural.  For those of us who keep multiple pure breeds, we must keep some of our beloved birds in covered separated runs.  Even though our birds are very happy, they have no grass to eat.  It takes no time for chickens to scratch out any sign of green from inside a pen.  So this is where the grazing box comes in.  They provide green grass, herbs, and also help with boredom.  


Materials you will need for 1 box:
(1) 2"x4"x8'
24" x 24" Hardware cloth
Nails and staples.




Step 1:
Cut 2x4 to following lengths.
(2) 24" 
(2) 21" 
(1) 6"  -This should be left over as scrap








Step 2:
Place the 21" pieces inside the 24s to create a perfect square.  Nail together.









Step 3: 

Paint if you desire.  .......We desire.  Color makes everything better!

Step 4:
Lay the hardware cloth over your square and staple tight.





Step 5:
Place the 6" scrap piece  on the inside of the square.  Staple block to the hardware cloth in the center. This helps support the screen when chickens walk across it.  



Easy Peezy.



Step 6:
Plant your crop.  Place the grazing box inside your run and plant your mini garden under or through it.
We use a mixture of grass and herb seed.
This project is meant to be simple.  You should not have to spend much time gardening in these boxes.  It should be a toss the seed and let it grow system.  The chickens will have to wait until the plants get 4 inches high before they can clip a snack from the top.  This system allows the roots to be protected from scratching and never cuts the plants too short to survive.  You can run any type of seed you wish.  You can even grow Rye grass in the winter to keep your chickens green year round.  These little plants will receive plenty of fertilizer for a healthy growth.

We will have photos of a growing crop soon to add.  

Chicken Coop n Run Laying boxes from Furniture Drawers

Furniture Drawers into laying boxes

We have tried many types of laying boxes.  We have tried Buckets, Egg Crates, Baskets, Wood Boxes...to name a few.
But, our favorite is an old furniture drawer.  Simple to build and can be found on the side of the road.  I am sorry I did not take photos all the way through the process.  

Step 1:

Remove hardware from drawer to use on other projects.

Step 2:

Cut 2 pieces of 1x4 or 1x6 around 12 inches long.  Cut one side of each piece at an angle.  Attach these pieces vertically inside (or out) of the drawer on the sides.  Angle side up.  Make sure the angle slopes towards the rear.  This will give you your roof pitch.  

Step 3: 

Cut a single 1x4 or 2x4 about 24 inches long and attach vertically to the old back of the drawer.  This will hold up the drawer off the ground.

Step 4:

Attach the front or largest face of the drawer to your pen using screws.  It does not have to be perfectly level.  Your chickens will not mind a little slant.


Step 5:

Cut a piece of plywood for your roof.
 (Roofing material can be anything that is waterproof and can hold the weight of a curious chicken.)
Cut a piece of plywood a few inches wider and longer than your drawer.
For example:

If your Drawer is 30 " x 14" cut your plywood 34" x 18".  This does not have to be perfect.  You are simply keeping some of the rain out of the box.
Now attach the plywood to the two vertical pieces of angled 1x6 you installed earlier.  I just lay it on top and screw it down with a couple screws.  

Step 6:
Perdy it up!
Make husband paint the box using pink paint.  This reminds him that he is not too good to have a fun time.  HEHE.  Painting not only helps prolong the wood, but it also livens up the place a bit.  

Step 7:

Fill with hay and and let em lay. 
Its fun to watch the girls inspect our projects.  They are so curious.  We like to make fun little bets on how long it takes for a hen to lay in the box.

All you have to do now is collect your eggs.  

Step 8 added:
Add a rail to the front.  Something attached to the front for the hens to fly up to and jump off of.  I used a scrap piece of 1x1x24 attached to the 2x4.  

Free Protein for our chickens! What is a BSFL harvester?

What is a BSFL?

Black Soldier Fly Larvae(BSFL) are similar to mealworms. It is a self harvesting 42% protein yummy free snack for chickens or fish. The harvester bin is essentially a compost box that grows the larvae all by itself. BSFL is self harvesting: meaning when the larvae reach full maturity (about 1 inch long) they crawl to the highest point to become a fly. We use a ramp to provide this journey for them. But, instead of finding their perfect spot, they drop into your bucket for harvesting. Thats it! Yummy healthy snacks for your chickens and it only nothing but your garbage. We expect to harvest .5 to 1 lb of larvae a day. For free!


Why BSFL?
Well, it all started when we found worms in our layer pellets.

JULY 6, 2016

After a few Google searches we realized we not only had a moisture and molding problem in the feed shed, but we also were inadvertently growing BSFL in our bags.  We learned that BSFL were much like Mealworms many people give to their chickens as treats.  They cost about $7 per pound at the feed store.  The problem with mealworms is that they have to be harvested by hand.  Meaning, when the larvae becomes mature they must be hand picked.  This is done by choosing the darker larvae from the bin.  Black soldier fly larvae, on the other hand, is self harvesting.  They throw their selves into a bucket for you :) HA!

So we started building a harvesting bin to utilize this opportunity.
We visited some local houses being built and found the contractors had much to toss out.  SO we used our free wood and started building.  

 

UPDATE (8/1/16)
I would recommend 35 degrees angle or less.  Using 40 degrees is ok.  But, do not paint the surface.  See update below for additional explanation.    

Make sure your directing wood has no gap between the wood and the surface below.  Larvae are very strong and will fill any crack they can to Pupate.  Use glue or caulk.  

Then we had to waterproof the project (and Make it Pretty of course)

I recommend gluing this layer down with liquid nail or not using it at all.  I learned later on that the larvae were crawling underneath.  Maybe just painting the bottom would be enough.  

Now, this is an interesting fact to me.  Black Soldier Flies not only self harvest, they also self propagate.  Our environment already has Black Soldier flies flying around us.  Many have just never noticed them.  They are attracted by the scent of spoiled fruit, veggies, or meat.  The adult flies do not eat.  They only breed and lay eggs.  TO take advantage of this fact, we can either drill 1/2" holes around the top of a box, or simply leave a gap big enough to allow them in.  Once inside they will find a rough area to lay their eggs.  They do all the work for us.  Easy peezy! 

This is the bin that will catch your self harvesting larvae.

Now its time to fill the box and attract the adult flies.  The idea is to create a composting box topped with decaying veggies, meats, or just scraps from the kitchen.  They eat nearly everything.  Even used coffee beans.  I started with a layer of straw to prevent the larvae from dropping through the drain hole.  You can use a screen and that may work better.



So to start a compost bin, some suggest to use the rule of thumb "brown-green-brown-green".  This means to use a layer of dead materiel and then a layer or green material.  I added a layer of manure compost (larvae thrive on manure of any kind) and then topped it off with the layer pellets they had already infested. 

Each evening we toss our kitchen scraps into the bin.  

Now its time to wait and see what grows!
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JULY 7, 2016

Much to our surprise, we received confirmation that our work was not in vain.  Only 15 hours later an adult Black Soldier Fly female was already laying some eggs inside for us. 

It is thought that an adult female will lay 500-900 eggs in its short lifespan.  That's a lot of treats!  The eggs take about 100 hours to hatch and will then grow 5000 times their starting weight in only 2 weeks (given enough food)

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JULY 17, 2016

Here is a video of day 10.  The quality is poor.  But, you can see the larvae growing well after only 10 days of adding garbage.  The chickens will be so delighted!

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JULY 25, 2016



They are growing! 

We have a small harvest. 7-25



 Lets see how the chickens like them.

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7-25-16 UPDATE   Ramp angle too steep ( Do not paint ramp )

We have run into a problem.  The 40 degree ramp made of OSB should have been a great surface to climb.  But, we are seeing the larvae make it half way up and then roll back down.  Looking closely we can see that the larvae are slipping.  They cannot get a good grip.  They are without legs, so they inch their way up on their bellies.  It seems the paint on the ramp made it slippery.  We spray it with water and that seems to help them climb.  We are not harvesting as many as we could be.  The ramp is simply too steep with not enough grip at this angle.  


Attempted fixes:

1. Sanded with paper
2. attached sand paper
3. Cut marks for grip
4. Rubber mat 
5. Carpet side of welcome mat
6. Bath tub grip stickers
7. Covered the ramp with fresh OSB at less angle.  

I attempted to move the original ramp.  But I glued it in place.  So I moved all the compost and larvae out of the way.  Then I laid another piece of OSB on the ramp with a 2 inch lift at the bottom to change the angle.  AT the top of the piece I cut at 45 degrees.  Now the larvae walk up without slipping at least most of the way.  If they fall, they fall to this lip and then try again.  It seems to be working.  With all my research on this project, I never read of anyone having trouble with their ramp.  I hope this helps someone else.  "Do not paint your ramp."

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JULY 27, 2016


JULY 28, 2016

Our chickens have turned from friendly to stalker-ish.  They do not just like the larvae. They seem to be addicted now.  They follow us every where.  They are even pecking at our feet.  I guess that vein on my ankle looks like a BSFL.  OUCH!

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Update from 8-3-2016

Harvest this morning.