Search results for query: *

I wasn't prepared for two broodies, I only had one chick feeder, and my galvanized metal waterer base rusted. Today I went to a hardware/farm store and got a chick waterer base and a chick feeder base. I bought a second waterer base at TSC, but all they had were bases with a flower design...

I was fortunate that I had a broody already setting when I got some eggs, and another hen went broody shortly after I put half of the eggs in the incubator. Both appear to have accepted the chicks I placed under them, but the hens had been broody close to the 21 days of incubation.

Chicken Math strikes. In March I had 7 hens. In April I added five chicks. As of today I have added seven more. That's 19...NINETEEN! :th The April chicks are all cockerels :rolleyes: so they'll be headed to the auction, June or July. That will help. Oh, and they're bantams. That also...

Love the pictures, but the expressions in the middle photo are funny!

The door to my hoop coop was getting hard to close, so I raked debris from around the frame and found lots of earthworms. So did my chickens! ;) I tried to get a picture but the hens insisted on checking out the freshly raked soil. I had a bucket of debris, and decided to use it as a side...

Show him the egg size...

Blue band has not developed red wattles like the others, yet...I'm hoping she's a pullet. The one in the middle ⬆️

Mine will be 6 weeks old on Monday...and I agree, they are cute. They're like a little gang. Blue band took a wild strawberry from my fingers today, first time! Purple band left, blue band front, LC right rear ("Little Chick"). One of my hens, Rahab, had similar black coloring on the neck...

They will go to a local auction when they get feisty. I got $5-10 each last year for six 3-month-old cockerels and another one sold a few weeks later for $30. I don't think they were purchased for soup... bantams aren't very big! But they sure were pretty! (May 2023) The two I kept: Joel...

:fl

Well? The one you mentioned is one of the two sitting on the left side of this photo. :confused:

The chicks are getting SO big... :love Wish I could keep them, but it appears all five are cockerels...

Thanks, but I am fairly certain they're boys. And all of them have yellow shanks, a non-Standard trait for Speckled Sussex, so I don't want to keep any of them for future breeding. Bummer. I have 12 more eggs incubating: 6 under broody Tamar and 6 in an incubator. I'm hoping some will turn out...

The chicks were mixing it up with the hens when I brought tomato bits to the run today. But I think all five are boys :he :barnie

I put zip-ties on the chicks, and refer to them by their zip-tie color until I am sure they're staying. Then I name them.

The Baleful Glares! :gig

Oh, thanks, but I got that information from someone else here, I am a novice at this! :pop

There's a place about an hour's drive from here, where I got my original chicks, but I was hoping to get a cockerel from another source, or even eggs. There aren't a lot of places to choose from, bantam Speckled Sussex are unusual.

The previous roo, Joel, was attentive to the girls, tidbitting them, watching over his girls...but he had a seizure and died in January. He had a good temperament. Samuel never tidbitted the hens.

Thank you. That's so sweet. :hugs I'm actually hoping to introduce a different cockerel to the gene pool as all the Speckled Sussex chicks got the recessive and non-Standard yellow shanks, all were Samuel's. I will still keep any yellow shank pullets for eggs, but not for breeding. I'm not a...