Posts by HogbackMtnChickns

I've been using a 5 gallon bucket with nipples and a bird bath heater from Murdochs in a fairly mild Colorado season (so far).  Our lowest low so far has been 9 degrees, and most nights it has been in the low twenties or high...

I use a 5 gallon bucket with a bird bath heater and the nipple dispensers.  So far - works great.  We have been in the single digits at night - no freezing.  This week might see our first below zeros.  That will be a...

Hi Janet.  The 10 chickens I have right now are the first chickens I have ever raised, so I can't answer your question from personal experience.  I got these girls (and 2 boys) in June.  I saw that you posted on the...

Hi Janet.  I have 4 Wellie hens, all from Whitmore Farm.  Some of our eggs are dark and unspeckled, some are fairly dark and heavily speckled, and a few are light colored and heavily speckled.  I don't know if some lines...

Thanks, Patty.  We got our first Wellie egg today.  It is lovely - dark and speckled.

Hi Patty.  I bought Wellies and Ameraucana chicks from Whitmore Farm in June.  I have 1 wellie rooster and 4 wellie hens, and 2 ameraucanas.  They are beautiful.  I am waiting for my first eggs.  I had my chicks...

I am waiting for my first Wellie eggs too.   I have 4 Wellie ladies who hatched in June.  Any day now ....

I have a small flock, too.  I have 10.  2 are roosters.  They are the same age - and lived together since hatching.  They are only 23 weeks old, but get along so far.  Are yours together now?  If the little...

Do you mean a heated waterer with the chicken nipple dispensers?  I have a very basic 5 gallon bucket with nipples.  I bought a bird bath heater at Murdochs.  So far works great.  We haven't gotten really cold yet...

Hi Mamma Dixie.  My husband also ties flies.  There are a few sources of fertilized eggs for fly-tying birds - but no chicks that I ever found.  This is our first year with chickens, so we didn't want to try to hatch...