I've had chickens for a few years now, but I just brought home a pair of Narragansetts today. These are my first turkeys. When I picked them up, the girl and I were double checking that I had a tom and a hen, and not two hens (these guys are only about 17 weeks old), and I mentioned how red...
Thanks, Julie! That's the first thing I looked for - feathered feet and an extra toe... LOL! Looks like Whitey might just be the winner! And since our Roo to Hen ratio is so high, it's good news that Top Dog has a new home as of this weekend... A good friend just contacted me today! She lost her...
Where in Alabama? My daddy was from NW Alabama near Muscle Shoals....
My Alabama chicken story: my mom is from California and never really understood my dad's family or their "ways..." One time when they were visiting, my dad's grandmother went to catch a chicken for dinner. She was about 80...
If it helps any, Lucky and Top Dog are the same age, and out of all the fluffy chicks we brought home that day, they were the two yellowest ones, and they were bigger than the others to start with (that's why we thought she was a roo), followed by the yellow with red-striped ones that turned out...
Little did I know my Silkie was as sneaky as he is... Now I've got a bunch of baby chicks with fluffy butts! LOL!
Here's our newest game - try to guess who the mom and who the dad is for our 8 baby chicks...
There are 3 all white ones, 2 that look like Red Stars with fluffy curly tail...
This is one of the chickens I got from a friend when she moved. I have no idea what she is, but we call her Goldie for obvious reasons:
And this is Lucky. We got her and 8 others as baby chicks from TSC a year and a half ago. She's called that because we thought she was a roo at first... ...