Recent content by pebbltree

hi! I think it was ECSandCCFS or something along those lines? I used to have so much fun watching the batches of babies grow up :]

Oh, I used to lurk on this thread years ago, 2015-2016 I wanna say? I got a new account and was so delighted to see it's still around, I hope everything is going well for you :frow

Is it cold where you are? chickens are usually able to take getting wet alright, they can even swim a bit like ducks if need be. Mine would be a little sluggish after I bathed them, but after a couple hours of drying in the sun would be running around just fine.

I kept killing all my succulents until I was looking after a friend's house while they were out of town, and they just asked me to water them by spraying them once a week with a little bottle sprayer. I had definitely been overwatering mine :oops:

I've heard about some folks getting the wrong chickens from TSC before, and it sounds like your other birds did end up being rudd rangers, so I'd say that a bielefelder somehow ended up in the bin. He's a very pretty big guy, I'd say you were lucky with that guy

oh my gosh, they're so precious!

I'm getting antsy to get things in the ground, it keeps getting warmer but I'm always afraid to plant until the first week of April or so, I feel like there's always one last frost right when I think it's safe. I'm planning to make a lot of tomato sauce and pickles this year, and trying out...

agreed he looks like a polish to me :]

If you're referring to the very light one in the front (my apologies, i'm a bit color-blind and can't tell the color well), it looks to have puffy cheeks, which are pretty common in easter eggers, or ameraucanas :)

both cockerels

wow, these are so beautiful!!

They're hens! If they are plymouth rocks (which they look to be) roosters would also have a lot more white in the feathering as well as more long, curved feathers, and larger combs and wattles

o/ hello! i've been lurking in here a little while, used to be part of the site like 10 years ago and lost my account. when i came back i wandered over here and found this thread and got excited to see other lgbtq people chatting and wanted to say hi :frow

We haven't had problems yet, but we usually ask pest control to avoid the chicken coop and the area around it just to be safe. Birds are a little more susceptible to ill effects from breathing in chemicals, so I'm a little extra cautious, but they should be ok when they're older, especially if...

If i had to guess, I'd say that he has some Dorking in him, but probably not purebred, it doesn't look like he has the 5 toes typical of dorkings