BEE SPOKEN FARM CHICKENS: Introducing my flock!

TesoroSena

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Jan 5, 2023
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As of right now i have 7 older RIRs: Goldie, Zuma (aka Mother Hen), Jay Jay, Harriet, Fluffyhead, Shiloh. I started out with 10, but unfortunately, 1 died as a chick, and the nabor dogs stole the other 2. :( We got them early march, and in november Zuma went broody. She hatched a silkie and dominique mix (sorry if that is spelled wrong), and since the other eggs did not make it, we bought five more darlings. A california white: Fidget, a black sexlink: Night, an australorp: Pecker, a production red: Maple, and another RIR: Autumn. Once they were older, around may, we purchased 13 cornish x for meat birds, along with four turkeys. I wrote a book on them and i am hoping for it to come out on amazon at the end of march, so if anyone is interested... it is called Chip. The four turkey's names were Peeper, Crazy Feather, Tom, and Chip. During that we got 2 silkie roos, Black and Kohaku (Which means amber in japanese) and a female, Sunny. By september all the turkeys had died but one, Chip, so we bought two more males. Tom and Jake. We are butchering Jake. Even later, like november, we bought more meaties, and a chick i hatched went into the new meat bird coop. Then we butchered all but three meat birds and a rooster, Sweetpea, who was the hatcher. The 3 meaties would become breeders. Then we bought a 6 month old RIR roo boy, whom we named Sammy Hagar LOL. Now Chip laid fertile eggs, and 3 are hatching tomorrow, and 8 will hatch in 16 days. I made a hatch a long for them!
TIA for reading! I would love any responses or stories!
 
Yay!!
The two turkeys we dubbed Ada and Jack, Jack because my sister insisted, and Ada because there is a person with crippled feet and she taught herself to walk with no crutchesw or anything, named Ada. Turkey Ada cured herself of the straddle leg with no help, so it totally fit. Pecker would not take them though, and when Blackhawk hatched chicks about two weeks ago, she wouldn't take them either, so they are stuck in my room. Lonestar is getting big, and Mother Hen, the sick one, is now apparently his girlfriend. He dances to her all the time, trying to mate once. That will be awkward when he is huge and she is still tiny. Blackhawk kept her first three babies, bbut for some reason killed her others. It was sad, though we managed to save two, a silkie, who we haven't named cause we may be selling her and her brother, an ee mix. We have only named one of the babies Blackhawk decided to keep, and it is Dotsy. (sis named her) She is a rir and silkie mix, and the other two are rirs, pure. The other day also hatched 8 pure rirs for selling, and put them in with the turkeys, who they guessed was their mother. The turkeys are kind of mad.

PS, if you want some of the rirs, look us up on facebook, bee spoken farm!

PPS, Happy Easter!!
 
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Unfortunately, Wednesday Lonestar died. We are all very sad, especially Mother Hen, who misses him a lot. We think he may have had worms because he had recently lost a lot of weight.
On the bright side, today we hatched two chicks and are expecting one more!
 
Unfortunately, Wednesday Lonestar died. We are all very sad, especially Mother Hen, who misses him a lot. We think he may have had worms because he had recently lost a lot of weight.
On the bright side, today we hatched two chicks and are expecting one more!
Oh I am so sorry about Lonestar, :hugs always heartbreaking 💔.
 
I wish we did have luck, but all three chciks hatched and two of them died, including my favorite :hit . We named the remaining baby rir Precious, bc she is really precious to us now. I am so sad.
On the bright side (if there is one) we finished building the run for the layers... it ended up around 8,000 sq ft! Our great Pyrenees, Duke, lives in there and is loving it.
Thankyou for all the comments and likes!!
 

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