Posts by motochick

Well, a month later and the verdict is... Roo!  

Gomes Bantams - Do you have any photos of your birds? I've been thinking maybe I could get a couple bantams:P - how do they do for egg laying?

Hi there fellow BYC - this is my first  time with chickens - I've had such fun growing up these chicks! I got a cochin bantam assortment (plus one leghorn) from McMurray on Oct 6, so now they are about 10 weeks old.  This...

Oh my, I would love for you to breed them too!  Being in a city I can't keep a rooster, so I have to vicariously support breeding projects and rare breeds.   I'm pretty new to chickens - I loved raising chicks I have now -...

mycutekitties, How good to have a nest box project to work on while your dwarf eggs hatch.  I sure hope you can post some pictures of them - just how small are dwarf chicks?  Are they much smaller than a Japanesse bantam? ...

"Keep Calm, Carry On"...wishing you all the best for your hatching! Hopefully there will be good news in the morning?

Quote:Originally Posted by dbcooper02 Flip a coin. Heads its a boy tails its a girl or maybe its the other way. I forget

aw! I love my leghorn pullets, they are more forward and interested in me (really, it's about the FOOD), than my bantam cochins of the same age. They're 9 weeks old and pure white now, but they were pure yellow as chicks.  So cute!

Here's the scene this morning - leghorns coming out to say good morning and the black frizzle below where she spent the night.Chicks get a play space too during the day, but note who's still in the very back.  Mystery does come out...

I have 5 assorted bantam cohins and 2 leghorns (all 8 weeks old), but the black frizzle is the slowest of all to mature.  This "ugly duckling" is, of course, also at bottom of the pecking order.  Two days ago, I...