Recent content by jonandlaura

  1. jonandlaura

    Our Chicken Adventure 2

    We are a family of three living on an old family farm. Trying our hand at farming on our own and have started with chickens. We have experience with sheep and Jon works on a dairy and beef farm. Jon is building their coop from scratch. They are living in a piggy deck unti they get too big and...
  2. jonandlaura

    Icelandic Chickens

    thanks for the encouragement jake! we will certainly be looking for sheep when we are ready for that. i'm not sure about regulations and such for chicks from iceland but it certainly is something to look into in the future. thanks for the welcome. we have been doing some research online about...
  3. jonandlaura

    Icelandic Chickens

    congratulations!!!! they certainly are beautiful birds! i day dream of having an iceland themed farm. i'd love an icelandic sheep and icelandic chickens would just be icing on the cake! we live in gimli manitoba and that would be lots of fun to have an iceland farm in little iceland. so happy...
  4. jonandlaura

    need help distinguishing chicks from one another

    sorry, they are single combs as far as i know
  5. jonandlaura

    need help distinguishing chicks from one another

    the black ones are jersey giants. and the ones that have the brown stripes are black with the brown stripe, sorry i should have mentioned the base colour there. the white ones are a generic plymouth rock meat bird, the name escapes me right now but those ones are huge and obviously not the...
  6. jonandlaura

    need help distinguishing chicks from one another

    thank you, here are the pictures...they're big! i can try to take more tonight if you need a better look at their backs. the little yellow one on the left is what i think is a buff. and the wing is an example of what we figure is a whyandotte. but we are missing 6 buffs somewhere. we have some...
  7. jonandlaura

    need help distinguishing chicks from one another

    hi there, new to the forum so let me know if someone has already asked but i can't seem to find anything that answers my question. we purchased day old chicks and they are now 2 weeks old. we have four different breeds and there are a few that we can't figure out which is which. the main issue...
See more
Back
Top Bottom