Posts by Wrightsx4

Yay nova! You're about day 5 right? Hahaha....I have a hatch buddy...Ben, you may want to warn her... Dust in my kitchen was disgusting. My house has a very "open" floorplan so my living room chicks produced kitchen dust until they...

All but four if mine spent their first night outside last night. It seems all went well. The other four will rejoin them once their backs feather in a little more. They're lagging behind so I'm boosting their protein to catch up. The...

I'd love to join you all! Last night I put 7 SF (salmon faverolles) eggs under my first-time-broody BA(black australorp). She's only eight months old but has been diligently sitting on her ceramic eggs for a full week. The sf eggs...

Strutter is a very handsome guy. I sure hope my fbcm grows to look like that - I'd have blue chicks running around all over SF eggs went under my broody Betty last night. She didn't seem to notice. Ben - I'm going to miss our old...

Looking good!

18 weeks is early but definitely not unheard of - I just wasn't that lucky. Maybe it depends on the time of year as well, daylight hours. Not sure.

Sorry Nova - that's awful. I had the same experience with the eggs I received last fall. I saved what eggs I could, wiped them off with a warm wash cloth and hoped for the best. Good luck!

Beautiful!!! The older ones look so grown up and the young ones are so sweet. I'm not seeing a splash look on the 2 LA's but they sure are lighter - the yellow legs I hadn't noticed before. Maybe they'll be the palest lavendar as...

Good morning!

As far as feathered legs go, the only "adult" (6mo) chicken I've had with them was my salmon faverolle, Baby. She's not the best example as she was a fall hatchling and was moved out from the brooder just before snowfall here, and died...