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Great eye!!!! That's exactly what that bird is! Beautiful birds she turns out, aren't they? I haven't heard anything about Kathy for awhile and hope she is doing well...she's a true sweetheart and generous to a fault.

Great post!!! The oldest chicks I've ever seen adopted were 3 mo. old. Yep...3 mo. They had never had a mama, nor did they want one but this old broody hen of mine didn't have a successful brood and I finally had to run her off the eggs. She was inconsolable until she noticed these...

She would have to be truly broody before she accepted chicks. I've fostered chicks under broodies many times with good success, just have to have a true broody bird and do it under cover of darkness. I keep the nest covered until I can get up there in the morning and supervise the interaction...

A wonderful system there and so nice to not have to worry about brooding chicks. You'll have chicks and mamas running everywhere and it will be a chickapalooza! What a wonderful sight to see! And that's the way to start out a chicken, IMO.

You are broody rich!!!! Will you let them all sit eggs or will you save some for fostering your 'bator chicks?

I love it when they do that! All I can think of is that there will be some excess gas released later on when they are roosting...too much air intake in those loose vents!

Sounds like you are way ahead of us here in the east. And it all sounds GOOD. It's snowing here right now and around 32* with a wind chill of 24* but supposed to warm back up soon. The weather has changed every 5 min. today. Typical mountain weather for spring. I've got some things...

Any of y'all wanna help LindaB220 get back home? Come join the party! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1089202/i-want-my-life-back

A pic of one of my breeding trios..... My great white hot hope for this season...not a great pic but but he oughta shine up well for a show.

Wow! Nice weather and a good jump start on the breeding season! Wish I could say the same. I'm not even done tweaking my breeding pen for the season and we'll be in single digits by tomorrow night. With the windchill we are already in them tonight.

Checked the flock this evening, assigning leg bands, replacing lost leg bands, checking skin and feathers for possible carry ons,trimmed nails, measuring abdomens and pelvic bone widths. I'm very pleased with what I'm seeing in these WRs, loving the heft, width and depth of the genes from Ken...

I don't do lights either. I get to rest from a lot of things in the winter months, so I let them do the same if they are so inclined. If I light them up in the winter, how will I know which birds are naturally good winter time layers vs. those that are not? I'm breeding for that, so I need...

I don't know...I think I'll always value good laying, hardiness, feed thrift, good feathering, good mothering, good foraging, meaty carcass, laying longevity, calm and friendly temperament, etc. That's all pretty basic, isn't it? Well...maybe not..other folks don't value them as much as I do...

I'm feeling a burr of excitement as I look at the pullets hatched this spring and see those I really liked early on starting to show good secondary sexual maturity signs, right on time at the beginning of their 6th mo. Seems like it happened over night for a few of them and I expect to see eggs...

We've been having an unseasonably warm November, so the flock is still getting some good tucker out on range...they look great and are doing great. This spring's pullets and cockerel will be turning 6 mo. old the day after Thanksgiving, so I'll be looking for eggs soon from that lot. The...

That must be an individual taste thingy, as I love the flavor and texture the organs and fat imparts to the soup. I even try to add extra fat from the greaer omentum to the jars or stock pot to render out even more of the fat from the bird. But then, the fat from chickens fed fermented feed...

Was looking through my stock journal this morning and found that this cockerel in the pic was only 4 mo. old at the time the pic was taken....I had said he was 5 mo. old. My old head! So, only 4 mo. old in this pic and still growing....5 mo. now and mating well, is docile and calm, a great...

Do they get woody or hot when they hit that size?

Yep...that way you have a measured amount to each jar. It will all be tasty chicken broth when it's done in the pressure canner.

It is and I have. Then I found that much of the seasonings I was using had a stronger, fresher flavor when added right before the soup was done cooking~garlic, parsley, onions, pepper, celery, etc. When I used them to make stock they were pretty much mush and had to be strained out afterwards...