I cut back on scratch grains and add BOSS (black oil sunflower seeds) - not a lot, treats, scraps and some beet pulp to add fat for winter. I start covering walls with tarps or plastic to prevent drafts and when its cold out I bring hot water out and the chickens LOVE it!
About 3-4 weeks ago I lost my entire flock to a Pit Bull. I got up, got my kids up since its summer break. I thought I heard a dog outside but that's not real uncommon since we have close neighbors so I didn't think anything about it, but at about that same time my 11 year old daughter had made...
SGM - Sweet Gum Minis
Welcome to the Sweet Gum Minis Chicken Coop. My name is Ashley. My husband Steve, daughter Hannah and son Matthew make up our little family. We raise Nigerian Dwarf and Mini-Mancha dairy goats and have dabbled in different varieties of poultry. Our current project is a...
Wow yours are beautiful! Love how they're strutting too. Thanks for sharing pictures of them.
Here are new pictures of them. I plan to take pics as they grow out and show what they mature into. Can't wait to see my first one strut!
Just picked the poults up. The darker two are coming in with more red and the two paler ones are very different. The lightest is buff colored and the medium colored is very pale with almost a bluish tent.
I was also mistaken. I though she had blue slates but she doesn't. She has narragansetts...
Cool thank you so much for the reply. I LOVE color genetics but haven't even looked at turkeys yet. Lots to learn but I'll dive in sooner or later.
Anyway thank you for the info. I will google the rusty blacks to see what they'll look like as mature adults.