Recent content by Tstraub

Maybe a mystic onyx? They are a silkie cross they commonly have black skin and feathered feet. Yours doesn’t appear to have a head tuft or extra toe often associated with mystic onyx but I don’t think those are required. Anyway that’s the best guess I have.

Man I gotta learn your secrets of the 10 I hatched out this year I have 7 cockerels and 3 probable pullets. No broodys here. Gena finally gave up after about 2 weeks of collecting eggs several times a day and pushing her off the nest. Lacy decided she has thought her babies everything they...

I haven’t had any experience with this yet but the video sure makes it look like an easy fix.

Gena hatched out 7 chicks and mothered them for 3 weeks then I added 2 more 3 week old chicks to her group. She seemed to accept them well enough. The 2 new ones always sort of stayed somewhat separate from the group but momma was happy to keep them warm or protect them any time they needed her...

I was surprised to see them crowing this soon. I was fairly sure they were cockerels a couple weeks ago based on comb development. Then about a week ago I noticed the saddles and shoulder patches growing in so I knew the crowing was coming. I just don’t remember my other boys crowing until they...

I just can’t do anything with my hair from all this humidity.

The chicks are starting a band. I saw 3 unnamed cockerels from Gena’s hatch worming up their singing voices this morning. I managed to get one on video. The pullet named chicken and noodles is learning to play the xylophone

I found some time today to get on the river. The fishing was great but the catching was just fair. I cleaned one sturgeon and one silver carp that jumped right in the boat.

That looks like a cockerel. The white feathers on his wings is really common at six weeks old. He should molt out of those white feathers and the grow black ones in their place.

The first round of chicks are now 8 weeks old and the second round chick and his 3 friends I bought are now 4 weeks old. Everybody is doing well. I believe I ended up with 3 pullets and 7 cockerels.

But no matter what, Joannie stays, she's not a cull even if I stop using her to breed. Cull simply means you are not going to use her as a breeder. Moving her to the eating egg flock, keeping her as a pet, or a good reliable broody are all perfectly acceptable ways to cull a bird. It doesn’t...

Are you starting a 3rd clutch of eggs or taking over for one of the broodys?

I have a mixed flock including 15 hens 1 rooster and 13 chicks. They are fed an all flock crumble feed 20% protein. They spend most of their time in an enclosed run but I try to let the out for a few hours at a time on days that I’m home in the evening. Attached are the notes I have for my 2...

Thank you for your reply. His legs are pretty dirty in those pictures. I recently expanded the outside run and I have been waiting for them the eat down most of the grass before adding more wood chips. So when it rains it gets pretty muddy and the chickens love digging up worms when they get the...