I have managed to keep my 13 Cochin chicks alive and thriving for 3 weeks! Darned if I can figure out how to post a pic with this new format though. I have so much catching up to do but the lag time is aweful now!
Lynne
She was fine as far as I know last night.
Opened hutch this morning and she looked like this!
Could the rooster have harmed her? It was their first
day out with the flock yesterday-
Ok I am nuts!
Craigslist post came across for entire flock of thirty one 9m-1.5 yr old hens.
Owner has to disperse as they have to move to OH in 30 days!
I was first to respond and brought home:
Speckled Sussex (major beautiful !!!)
Black Australorps
Buff Brahma (1 VERY large hen!)
Light...
I was lucky this time. I was in the barn when the morons next door let the dog out off leash.
She headed right for the chickens which were free ranging in front and along side the barn. They came running into the barn to me. Too bad I didn't have a pitchfork in my hand but I ran screaming...
The 2 chicks hatched here by my broody hen are both roosters. Americana hen x RIR/Gold Comet rooster cross. I think they are 5 months old now-
They are not very pretty but I do like the coloring on one- Wasn't a good mix! LOL But the fertile eggs were freebies. Both are gangly, very long...
A good friend who raises fowl called to tell me he was putting in an order and did I want to get anything?
Heck ya lol! 14 Standard Cochin chicks due 2/20! Had to get 2 varieties straight run so ordered 4 each hoping for at least 1 hen in each 4....
Now to get a brooder set up!
We raise and show rabbits and all our first ones were named after
Harry Potter Characters.
Gilderoy Lockhart is our last one and he just turned 9!
Lynne
Mine are on a canned dog food kick............I get surrounded
in the morning when I let them out and they follow me until
they get it!
(beef only no chicken flavored lolol!)
Lynne