this spring we lost Cornellia to a dog attack and a few weeks later lost Joan to a hawk. Since then Kenny and Bianca spend most their time in the run now. I have stopped the rotation of free ranging and Randall is the yard bird now. Jonny is safe in his run, and Kenny has his lady.
- aaron m
- Jun 12, 2015
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My learning curve was pretty steep as I began caring for the American Game Bantams. I had seperated the girls, thinking the boys would be ok out of the run where no girls were... and they were ok with eachother for about a month. At the point when I came out to find them in a 3 way boodbath, I made a large pen for jonny, let kenny in with the girls in the run, and let randall be our yard rooster.
- aaron m
- Jun 12, 2015
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I quickly found this awesome website and build a run/coop after one that I liked in the coop section. THe little chicks grew and my experience into keeping chickens began. One chick died... they turned out to be 3 males and 2 females. Interestingly out of the 5 chicks there are 2 sets of "twins" Kenny and Bianca are black and white and both have a very different comb (pea i think) than the rest. Jonny and Joan are black and brown with a single comb. Randal is a bit more colorful and has brown tips at his wings.
- aaron m
- Jun 12, 2015
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This is the family of American Game Bantams that I own. The hen on the right is cornellia; shes the mother. Last summer a beat-up wing-clipped skinny chicken wandered into my yard. I started feeding her and she stayed... a week later she dissapeared and for the next 3 weeks I only saw her for brief moments. All off a sudden one morning she had 6 little chicks behind her as they foraged and ran around the yard.
- aaron m
- Jun 12, 2015
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At this point it was still dropping below freezing outside and even with a heatlight I didn't feel it was safe for them to stay outside in those temps... long story short... they spent a week and a half in their box in my room. What was very cute for the first few days became a living nightmare of endless noise.
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- Jun 12, 2015
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