Recent content by Uncle Chicken

Thanks. It was harder to tell when he was younger. But the last month or so his feathers really started coming in nicely. Was hoping for eggs next month. Not now... :(

All his friends went to market. We have new friends but they wont get out in the tractor until next week. So currently he is by himself. We pay attention to him daily. Whats going to happen is he will show in the county fair first of Aug and hopefully find someone to use him. If not I guess he...

Our first year raising chickens. This is 5 month old Curry. Curry I figured out months ago is a Golden Laced Wyandotte. We think he is pretty and not mean. But he is all by himself at the moment. When I say He, we thought Curry was a She. But a week ago we heard Curry crow. Curry does not crow...

Thanks. Sounds like that owl had some nice feasts at your expense. The keeling over part I was worried about too. Here are our girls....

First time raising meats. We decided on 25 CX females, received 26. We ordered second week of Feb thinking our normal Mar weather would allow the birds outside on grass in a tractor. We had snow and cold in Mar this year which isn't really normal so they never made it to grass. Lesson learned...

Hello, First time poster and first time raising CX. I have a question or two. My CX are at 5.5 weeks weighing between 4-5 #'s. I noticed last night when raising the feeders (feeding 12 on 12 off) one of the girls was lying there breathing hard. This morning she did not get up to eat and still...