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Finally, after a 5 month wait, one of our chickens decided to lay. No idea which one... yay!

I have one at 20 weeks, and still no eggs. I'm trying to be patient!

Mine are over my head and i'm 6' tall... I use 5' tall concrete reinforcing wire to make cages.

Lucky! Where did you get them??

I was told this was a black birchen marans cockerel. Is that true? The chicks I bought were all supposed to be BCMs, but he showed up. Is he worth something in any kind of breeding program? What should I do with him?

My 50lb bags cost less than your 20lb bags... you need to find cheaper feed! Maybe you should post Where am I forum and ask people around you where they get their feed.

I think it's funny that I may never know... they do look like bantam appleyards, especially the head stripes on the hens. Although they don't look very "bantam", I need to weigh one of them. I got them on a whim at a poultry show in newnan when I was picking up my Marans and was so caught up...

Here they are when they were ducklings, if it helps.

I thought maybe they would moult and get darker, but my mallards have always been a lighter color than most of the other ones I have seen on here. Now my drake has a almost black head so I'm thinking they may just be a mix. Any idea?

I got a bunch of marans chicks about 5 months ago and ended up with these boys. They were all supposed to be black copper, so what is up with the lighter one? (Sorry I'm new these are my first chickens)

I'm still not sure about these 2, they are about 18 weeks old... any ideas? I'm guessing roo since they combs are so red at this age... but I'm not sure. sorry the pics are sideways

Look for rat droppings around where you found the birds, if a rat sat there and ate it's beak for that long there would be droppings.

They all look like pullets to me, mine are 16 weeks and my cockerals have way more coloring.

Quote: I made mine big enough to easily get a wheelbarrow between them, but I would leave at least 2ft minimum. The plants will grow past the boxes.

I made 4x8 boxes at first, but I found them to be too wide... I changed to ~3'x16' rows and like them better... just my opinion though, seems like most people like the 4' wide boxes. Here's my garden after I put in the mulch for the paths and finished the middle 3 beds. It's messy... looks a...

I'd say blue, could be blue copper also.

Easy, bring your dogs inside at night....

My Dobie/Rotty mix.

I homebrew also and am planning on at least giving the chickens some of the spent grain. I make bread a dog biscuits out of them also. Just be careful because, as I'm sure you know, the grains can go sour pretty quickly...