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Well the grand kids love them and we cant wait to see what they look like when they mature! "That is if the Cyotes, hawks or bobcats don't get them 1st

Well as some may know from this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/714041/what-are-these-mysterious-birds-that-have-taken-up-residence-at-our-house/20#post_10543277 we had some unexpected visitors who took up residence here. Well we now have 16 total new birds from these guys. The 1st...

BABIES!!! Well ou of the remaining 4 eggs 1 was rotten, 1 died just after comeing out of the egg and we got two little chicks

We had sizes ranging from larger chickens like Orpingotns and Brahmas with our Sizles Silkies and bantoms, we even have 2 turkeys with then and have very few problems, you have to watch for any one getting bulled or being overly agressive to the others. We did find mixing small flocks in groups...

I figured I would post them since it was mentioned about the whit ears in reference to Marys Marans :) I will have to look tomorrow to see the sprig mentioned I do believe what appears to be a sprig is actually a discoloration possibly caused by scrapping with another rooster before we set the...

We hope to have some better quality with the blues and splashes but no one can tell until they mature how close to standard they will be. The ones in the next pen with the white ears are Marys White face Black Spanish the heritage breed she is also working with. Here is a better pic of those,

Bad news, we went back to check on her and 12 of the eggs were destroyed and we beleive only a week to go to hatch, We moved her into a cage with the 4 remaining eggs to keep them safe, On top of that the other hen disappeared and we tracked her to find her on 15 eggs. Not 10 feet from the...

Marys trio of Black coppers and her blue and blue splash Marans chicks. #1 Big Daddy Elvis His girls "Davis line" who are now laying and the eggs are not quite the chocolatte brown high end of the egg scale but they blow Marys brown egg layers away!! Now for the chicks who have me...

Well unfortunately we are having a do over with Marys sizzle program. We lost our blue splash and white girls to a hawk and my blue splash roo had white on the feet so we replaced him with another young roo. As it sits Mary has 2 pairs. #1 with a black silkie roo and a blue splash sizzle hen...

no problem, hope we can help each other out with these

None of ours are from Lund or any large hatchery, Mary said she wants to see what sex our chicks turn out to be and since they said they have been male heavy she has no problem letting a couple go if you need them, she wants to get 2 or three unrelated groups going and would be interested in...

We have 2 young breeding age roos I will ask my wife if she might be willing to trade one as we are looking for some unrelated stock " incase you get a roo out of your chicks to keep the inbreeding down" As i understand it inbreeding and mixing with the Minoceras and others have hurt their gene...

we have seen the white guinea twice and our four are big enough to be out on their own and are still here and happy not sure if he will show up again but the pied of ours is starting to nest so we may have more of them here some time in the future soon..

Will do with luck we can round them up some where safe from preditors.

Question on Blue Splash Marans? Mary got 6 chicks 3 are white with the blue spots but 3 are a dark blue looking, is this normal? 1st time with the splash birds so we were just wondering about the coloration differences and also about sexing at a young age with them. A quick pic of the...