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Hi everyone. I got a request from my uncle today to incubate some Guinea eggs for him if he found some. Later on after he had left my sawdust delivery guy stopped by to buys some eggs and asked me if my incubator was empty. It is not as it is full with chicken eggs currently. I asked him why and...

Back in the spring my sawdust guy offered me 6 blue Marans. He had a shipment of Biefielder chicks that were supposed to arrive the first of June to replace them with. June came and went and the hatchery apparently didn't process his order and he never got his chicks. I was under the impression...

The chicks are 6 weeks old now and all but 1 boy have been rehomed. I ended up with 3 girls from Nugget and 1 girl from momma. As of yesterday names were finally settled on. This time around i discouraged my daughter from naming them early so she didn't get too attached to the boys. Nugget's 3...

It's been a few weeks since I posted any updates on my flock. Big changes has happened the last few weeks. Nugget and Momma both went broody at the same time and their chicks turned 4 weeks old today. Looking through my pictures I took today i'm seeing lots of boys, it is not meant for me to be...

Momma hen and Nugget are the proud momma's of 13 chicks between them. Momma has 5 chicks. She was sitting on 11 eggs. She last came off her nest 2 day before they hatched and still had 11, but when we moved her thursday when they started hatching 2 of her eggs had vanished. The only thing I can...

My 2 broodies Momma hen and her daughter Nugget have almost made it to hatch day and i'm a nervous wreck. Both girls decided to start setting on the same day. Friday makes 21 days and Momma started early that morning and Nugget started about 5 that evening. I noticed this morning when I was...

My morning coffee quarantine buddies. The not so little marans are 12 weeks old now and the boys are getting their rooster coloring in. One of them crowed for the first time last week. Toothy is still the big boss of everyone but he won't be the biggest for long. At 12 weeks George and Charlie...

Like clockwork after a week of back laying momma began sneaking off to lay. I finally spotted her yesterday while letting the marans have some playtime and couldn't believe it. The little cave on the hill where the girls were dust bathing a few weeks ago she's decided is the perfect place to...

My daughter Rosie's 6 new maran chicks have been here a week and are thriving! This is the first time i've brooded chicks myself and these guys are sooo friendly. It's really refreshing being able to interact with them and not worry about a angry momma hen out for blood just because you looked...

We went and picked up the new chicks yesterday. Initially went after the 6 black copper marans that are 3 weeks old today and come home with a extra chick. Its a 2 day old Lavender Ameracauna. Didn't plan on the little one but it was the only one to hatch out of 35 eggs he'd set in the incubator...

This past fall me and my mom were discussing about adding more chickens to our flock. One of the breeds we were for sure we wanted was marans. Looking around I managed to find a few different breeders somewhat locally to me. I have been following one of their facebook pages planning on...

My girls are close to back laying after taking the winter off. They have 2 nice nest boxes to choose from when they start back up. Then yesterday I payed attention to them when they were playing on the hill. I think Henrietta is going to make me work for her eggs. If she chooses that spot it...

I got some really nice pictures of Toothless and Henrietta playing on the hill this evening that i wanted to share. Toothy is gorgeous and in the first photo i swear he posed for me when i called his name. I love that chicken and can't wait untill this spring when i hatch some eggs between the 2.

It's been a few weeks so I thought i'd update on our little flock of chickens. Toothless fully recovered from his dog attack after almost 6 weeks of tlc. He was already a sweet boy before but now he's even sweeter. As long as its on his terms he'll now sit in your lap which I love and he's a...

Nugget will be 10 weeks old on Sunday. she is the only 1 of the 4 chicks that i'm certain is a pullet but i want to make sure. If i've ended up with 4 cockerels i may cry lol. So far she acts and looks like a little pullet.

This little one is 9 weeks and 5 days old and has me guessing. I know 2 of the brood are cockerels and 1 is a pullet. It is a game chick. Any ideas?

I think this is a good place to post this. Toothless has become my family's favorite color of chicken. I've looked and Birchen seems to be the closest to his color. What breeds come in that color pattern? More importantly what breeds in birchen are larger, and in general more friendly? So far...

So 2 weeks ago tomorrow a neighbors husky got ahold of toothless. Thankfully I heard the commotion and was able to get outside in time to find the dog in the process of carrying toothless off. A shovel was handy and the dog went home with a headache. When i hit the dog he dropped toothless who i...

The babies are 3 weeks old now. They still seem tiny to me, but then these are momma's actual babies so they are not going to be big chickens. I have a feeling that one of them is a little cockeral, its taking the longest to feather out and only in the last few days started to get tail feathers...

So my semi feral momma hen went missing for almost 3 weeks, infact the last time i saw her was when i took pictures of her and Tuffnut and Hiccup the hen. I was beginning to fear she had died but nope. Surprise my dad called as he was letting one of the horses hand graze that i needed to come...