Posts by LoriC

Quote: Originally Posted by donrae  x2 I"m thinking 2 roos 1 hen. Definitely 2 roos and a hen. One roo is learning to crow 

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickenExtreme      Just to clarify, I'm not disputing your EE's aren't pretty, lol. Most all EE's are gorgeous     No offense taken. I have a very...

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickenExtreme       Oh ok, lol, There are a lot of chicks that look a like at first, but ameraucanas have the beard and muffs, like...

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickenExtreme  They are definitely a mix. How was they looking like Ameraucana chicks? Coloring? Yes, they had a widow's peak on their head. When I did an image search on chicks, they...

When they were chicks they looked a lot like an Ameracauna chick -  You can just barely seeing one peek out from under Mom:   

These chicks were part of a brood that the neighbor's chicken hatched in my shed. The neighbor doesn't know what breed they are, because she inherited her flock from another neighbor. I'm just trying to figure out what breed they...

The ladies are doing good. They are getting their feathers back, and don't look so ratty. It doesn't appear they had mites or anything, they just had the heck pecked out of them. They have also started to lay. What a noisy bunch they...

Well, I wound up with two hens and a rooster. They are getting big!   They love their num nums:     They love rooting around in my flower garden:       And one of the roosters is...

X + Y = Z   X = Some gal who posted on Craigslist saying she had 6 chickens to give away. "Laying hens, would make a great free range flock"   Y = Me, figuring I only got 3 chicks out of my clutch, and I'm pretty sure...

Well, wound up with only 3 chicks. I'm not sure if it was the badly-timed move, or her decision to join the chicks on the ground instead of staying on the nest. The other eggs were definitely fertile    Mom and chickies...