Pics of my flock

[Worm94]

wowie it's been a while since I've posted here,
Better drop a few pics!
This round beast here is Buttons and she's one I kept from the spring hatch, and she is absolutely perfect

this young man here doesn't have a name but he's one of a couple who might be getting a home and he's just very pretty!

and my sweetest most beloved duck who started my love of ducks!!

and last but not least for now, my mr Dumpling (I've got such plans for him!! I found out so much about my flock's colors during my first spring hatch and next year is going to be very exciting, lots of test hatches as a result).

he's just about 10 pounds at almost six months and I don't have any others like him (yet) but I want them!

 

[Nicechickens64]

So a lotta these pictures (but not all) are from last fall before things got dreary and muddy over-winter, but I wanted to share some pictures of my flock and ramble about how much I love them!
They are all very sweet birds, the roosters I've kept are friendly if a bit skittish (but some of them are big cuddlers too) and I just love chickens a whole lot, more now that I've got my own.

The three younger ones hatched around December, and have just transferred to outside! Ebony (the black one) is a sex link, and so is her white sister there with the black feathers, and their dad is that really pretty boy in the first picture (his name is Atilla)! He's an Ayam Cemani/White Leghorn cross, we're pretty sure, and he was one of the first birds I got. He's skittish most of the time but if I sit down out there long enough or just hang out, he'll come hang out with me.
He's also super lovely to the hens. Even before they started laying he was tryna find em nesting spots, and when they did start laying he tried to sit in the nest boxes with them before they kicked him out.
The really round cuckoo barred lady there is Matilda and she likes to bite if you don't let her sit in your lap. Also a very good hen, lays the biggest eggs I've ever seen too.
And so far my favorite breed has been the Brahmas, because they are the cuddliest calmest birds I've ever met. The one in the pic is Morticia and she also wants to be a lap chicken, so then she and Matilda get mad at each other because I can't fit two large hens on me at once.

Anyway me n my roommate are also hatching a whole bunch of eggs from this mixed flock this spring (some are hatching right now actually!) and looking forward to seeing what the babies will all look like.
I do have more pictures and I will share more

Beautiful!!!. Thanks for posting!

 

[Emmaloveschickens9156]

Wonderful chicks! Better drop some photos of one of my hatches from earlier this month!

This is my first time incubating eggs all by myself, and for my first time I think I did pretty good. Started with 21 eggs 19 went into lockdown- 11 hatched. 3 died shortly after hatch for unknown reasons but they seemed sick from the start. The other nine are doing amazing! I think I had a lot of unfertile eggs because my roosters are 5-7 months old but they were mating regularly so I went for it! Here’s a few of the footballs.

 

[Worm94]

This is my first time incubating eggs all by myself, and for my first time I think I did pretty good.

I think so! Those are such adorable little fluffballs, I always love getting to hatch chickens and unfortunately it's too late in the year right now but I've got so many plans for next year (must..not...hatch winter chickens...)
I wonder what colors they'll all be as they grow too, that little black and white one is so round and sweet looking!! Well really they all are, that's just about my favorite phase of baby chickens when they're just tiny cotton puffs like that.
Thank you for sharing them!

 

[Worm94]

Been a bit since I've posted here, but here's some more pictures of my birds!
They are, as usual, not fans of the snow. They like the treats though, and we got them a bunch of straw bedding recently as it's cheaper than the wood chips we were using and seems to go a lot further (used some to combat the sheer amount of mud winter always brings too).
Put some corn and various treats into it n have been watching chicken TV ever since, they love scratching it around!
Very much looking forward to spring already, even though I've got at least 3 more months of this miserable snow and cold and rain coming before that. More likely it'll be 4 or so months but I never know these days.
bonus, picture attempt of a failed sock hat for one of our roos who seems like he might get frost bite (big comb, but also his dad got it and the other roo with a big comb has never had an issue so I think at least some of it has got to be genetic):

He's been fine overall so far though, aside from minor discoloration on the very tips, but that might just be the coop staying warm enough. He sure didn't like any of the sock hat options enough for me to manage to keep any of em on him .

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

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Been a bit since I've posted here, but here's some more pictures of my birds!
They are, as usual, not fans of the snow. They like the treats though, and we got them a bunch of straw bedding recently as it's cheaper than the wood chips we were using and seems to go a lot further (used some to combat the sheer amount of mud winter always brings too).
Put some corn and various treats into it n have been watching chicken TV ever since, they love scratching it around!
Very much looking forward to spring already, even though I've got at least 3 more months of this miserable snow and cold and rain coming before that. More likely it'll be 4 or so months but I never know these days.
bonus, picture attempt of a failed sock hat for one of our roos who seems like he might get frost bite (big comb, but also his dad got it and the other roo with a big comb has never had an issue so I think at least some of it has got to be genetic):
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He's been fine overall so far though, aside from minor discoloration on the very tips, but that might just be the coop staying warm enough. He sure didn't like any of the sock hat options enough for me to manage to keep any of em on him .

This is ADORABLE! Thank you for sharing. I'm laughing wishing I coulda witnessed you and the chicken and the sock! You are having a blast with your chickens and I'm smiling over here in CT wishing for spring already too! It just started snowing and I know the girls have all their feathers in a ruffle mad about it! Keep warm

 

[Worm94]

This is ADORABLE! Thank you for sharing. I'm laughing wishing I coulda witnessed you and the chicken and the sock! You are having a blast with your chickens and I'm smiling over here in CT wishing for spring already too! It just started snowing and I know the girls have all their feathers in a ruffle mad about it! Keep warm

Oh he Hated the sock, he hated all of it, it was really funny trying to put it on him at all! I hope your girls stay warm too, n that you have a good holiday season!
It hasn't snowed a whole lot here yet but I'm sure it will, because at least around these parts winter hasn't fully kicked in yet. January and February are the dreariest and coldest months of the year . and of course, hoping so much that spring comes quickly (I will be doing more chicken math, naturally).

 

[Worm94]

yesterday it was in the 50s, today it is 28 degrees Fahrenheit and there is snow on the ground. Matilda would strongly prefer to stay inside (unfortunately the food is not inside and she is experiencing unhappiness ).

 

[Worm94]

Had a possum take one of the bachelors unfortunately. Only had the two and they were housed with the geese, and that shelter should have been safe but I guess it wasn't. It could have been something else, but I don't know what's small enough to have gotten in.

Did a major check and didn't find any broken wire or new holes, so I moved the remaining one to the main coop just in case.
The small mercy is he was definitely the friendlier of the two.
I think he misses the other one though, I hope he's able to recover emotionally soon and I've been spending more time with him because of all that.
He's got a neat comb, but enough rambling, here's the pics. Kinda wondering if he should get a name since he's been here so long and he's likely to stay.

I certainly have never seen a comb like it, I bet it wouldn't breed true though.