Recent content by TexasBlues

I’ve been letting the week old chicks free range with the main flock. Surprisingly the whiting true blues didn’t react at all to the chicks and just walk around with them. The marans get a little territorial and have pecked a few, but I try to moderate the confrontations. The rooster is doing...

Here’s a small video showing off the new chicks running free.

No, I didn’t take like that. It’s been a peeve of mine that they are going over the fence where I can’t protect them. I haven't totally decided how, but I need to make a large enclosure so I can leave for a few days and not worry about them being attacked. I’m probably going to get a 100’ roll...

I’m slowing working towards building a safer enclosure for all of them.

I told the owner that he needs to keep him inside his yard. His fence was all full of holes. He was apologetic and willing to pay for damages. My wife took that picture after she tracked the dog back to the house. The dog looks just like one of mine so I bet the pullet didn’t even react as it...

Thanks @wrathsfarm I was surprised she was alive. This was the culprit. She gets visiting time from her sisters

one of the whiting true blues got attacked by a loose dog a couple days ago. She was out of the yard and a stray mutt grabbed her. My wife tracked down the dog about 200 yards away by following all of the feathers. She recovered the pullet and brought it home. There was some bad wounds in her...

I’m not 100% sure what constitutes a fibro? Can they have green legs and white feathers? My notes say there was 3 black chicks with black skin. Some of those have some gray feathers on the underside. There is one that is black all the way to the tips of its toes. There’s one yellow one that has...

I would say after they have had chick sized grit.

Thanks! It feels good being able to go full cycle and hatch eggs from chickens that I raised from egg. I'm sure hatching and brooding for the first week or two in the house imprints on them. We have a whiting true blue pullet that is extremely tame and will come to the door and I will let her in...

I love his color and the way his hackles reach to his saddle feathers. His comb reminds me of some wrestler’s ears lol.

The cute chick with all the facial markings came out of a very large pink egg. The first yellow chick pic has dark skin, green legs. It came from an olive egg. The Marans are very active and bouncy. I didn’t get any pics yet of the all black fibros.

I had 5 eggs that didn’t hatch. I did an eggtopsy on them. 3 were fully developed but never internally pipped through to the air space and the membrane had tightened around them. 2 looked like they quit developing towards the end. So the final number is 19 healthy chicks out of 25 eggs set. So...

I moved 19 chicks to the brooder and gave them some grit and chick starter. They jumped right in and started eating. This is one reason I don’t order from hatcheries. I like them going straight from the incubator to a nice comfy brooder with water, feed and grit. There 4 dark marans eggs left...