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Getting big!

They are SO pretty, love the butterscotch coloring.

You may recall Little Chick, one of two chicks in a staggered hatch back in April? He was the one pecked and left for dead on day two, again on day three. I gave him B Complex and E from a syringe a couple times. He would get lost, Martha had to go back and find him. He cried when he got left...

Bantams don't have much meat. :eek: There's too much drama in the coop, so the juvies are heading to the auction next Saturday. I'm considering keeping one. If I didn't want to eventually breed I might keep this boy, he's got more of the Dominique sweetness than the others, the purebred Sussex.

What about a series of smaller articles?

Just because the label says something doesn't mean it's always correct.

Thank you. Seven hatched, one declined and died. So six are left. Please, PLEASE let there be some females. My last hatch of 5 was all males. Heading to the auction:

I love seeing a chick peek out from underneath its momma. Tamar and one of her two chicks...

I'm in-between taming chickens as pets and a total hands-off approach. I am the giver of grapes, and my first bunch, the Sussex, will land on my lap if I possibly have treats. The Dominiques are a little skittish but willing to eat from my hands. I wasn't able to spend time with them napping on...

:D That was an inspiration. I got some discarded produce for free at the farmers' market, it was either collards or cabbage. Since I only had one chick feeder for two brooders I used an uneaten leaf from the run floor for Rahab's group. Today they used an upsidedown rubber tub, no problems...

Wow. Bumble Jr. is striking!

I've a solution, STOP FEEDING THEM! I've read about towns banning people from feeding waterfowl at ponds and lakes on public property. We have Canada geese on the nearby university campus, and when they go foraging around the buildings they leave lots of nasty "land mines" on the sidewalks.

For anyone interested, 7 of 12 shipped eggs have hatched, I think we're done. Rahab is happy with her five, Tamar has accepted two (one she did hatch).

And backwards to boot! :gig

Here is my favorite 4-legged chicken picture: :lol:

I save my phone photos on an SD card, and my real camera photos on an external hard drive.

Oh, I did, and will. They're now out in the nesting box with Rahab, who is looking very happy.

Weeding is good exercise and therapy!

Three incubator chicks have been placed under Rahab, who's been trying to hatch two plastic eggs for almost three weeks.

It never gets old...