Yes, this has been an unusual winter. The blizzard is still on here...started with rain Saturday. We have had rain, hail, sleet, snow, high winds. There have been tornados in our state as well. Plenty of flooding and downed power lines. Christmas Day the temperatures were in the high 60s.
Little Man Jr. is the ruler of the barn. He will not roost with any of the other birds but prefers to roost 10 feet up on the barn rafters. During the day, he guards the door into the barn and expects his corn on top of a fishing tackle box...will stand there until he gets it too. As yet...
@HotDesertChick Love the coop colors too...definitely New Mexico design!
@Speckled Hen. Sure enjoy the pictures of your birds.
Haven't been on in a while. So getting caught up on reading.
Will have to post some pictures of my newest lovelies. I have a Porcelain rooster that thinks he is...
My little d'Anver hen hatched eggs this week and I gave her a few more from that were incubator hatched. She has taken all 13 well in stride. They all make it under her wings...for now. Some were almost one week old so already knew about food and water. A mixture of Bantams...Delaware...
K Epp....sure hope your little ones are safe thru the night and are looking for you in the morning demanding their breakfast.
The KLF has been flirting here with my LF Cochin/Wyandotte crosses that make the best broody mothers and delicious roasting birds. The temptation to cross a Buff...
Those of you in the south, stay safe and warm.
Best advice: Don't walk on that ice without good shoes!
Wear surgical gloves under your other gloves to keep your hands warm and dry.
Wear double layers of everything including your head.
My two single cockerels are attempting to breed the standard hens...sure hope that isn't possible. The sure are determined though.
I've paired a Black cock with a Quail hen, a Ginger Red with a lovely Buff Col hen, a Buff Col with two Buff hens. The hens and one cock bird are split to MF...
I have large fowl hens sitting on a mixture of banty eggs in the outside coops. I'm moving the eggs inside the incubator just before hatch (3 days) and the hen into a hanging cage nest over toss able eggs. Then I'm giving the hen the hatch chicks and tossing those two or three eggs.
One hen...
Backwoods Bntms, Nice chicks! Will be interesting to see comments on the Mille with white wings. Could it be a split?
Cyn, Tiny looks like she is saying "you want a piece of me!".
SonRiseSilkies (Cheryl) asked me to post these pictures of some recent chicks she has hatched because of their unusual markings...any idea what variety they will be...Parents are Quail, but chicks appear to have some spangles.