Recent content by WildWalker

I can't believe noone's said it yet. Ebony and Ivory? Soot n' Snow sounds cute to me too

Perhaps bantam GL wyandottes, and I would think the two bearded ones might be EE's. But suffice to say not everything in that brooder is a chicken.

I have a broody BO who's been sitting religiously on her dozen eggs for at least 20 days now, candling what eggs I could (curse those thick-shelled EE eggs) I see there's little hope of a successful incubation. She's been sitting hardcore on the nest, going into broody over-drive and has lost a...

How old are the babies? Whether or not they can have some fun in the sun depends entirely on how feathered they are. With temperatures being that nice you could certainly put the brooder out, provided the were protected from drafts and away from strong direct light. At minimum I would go no...

Congrats on the babies! Careful tho - chickens are VERY addicting. They're like potato chips - you can't just have one (dozen). I'm not an expert at sexing chickens by any stretch of the imagination - but I can usually sex them reliably at 3-4 weeks of age. It depends on the breed, but the...

I have a bantam self-blue D'uccle hen that is the friendliest little thing. She's considerably smaller then the vast majority of our mixed flock, so when it came around to feeding time I would always giver her a little something extra (usually kitchen scraps or a tiny bit of starter). After a...

I had one exactly like that day before yesterday - decided to have a one-egg omelet for sup.

Quote: I think they'll both do just fine together then, they both seem very even tempered - I inspect the BO and the silkie once a day, checking the eggs and keeping a head count of the babies. Both of them will gripe and grumble at me, but they've never once shown signs of aggression. The...

I'm expecting quite a few fuzzies in my brooder now. I've ordered about a dozen silkies (white, blue and black) and have some beautiful pidgeons (satinettes, FF'd pouters, homers, and capuchins) on the way for later this month too. Went this morning to the local feed store and got 8 assorted...

~Bump~ I'd also like to update about the youngest chick, who may have turned out to have underdeveloped legs. It's been about 30 hours since he's hatched and is only now attempting to stand and barely managing it. His joints at the tibia/metatarsus seem swollen, although it may be because he...

It's been a good few months since I last posted here, been busy building pens, looking through catalogs and otherwise enabling my chicken addiction. I just started raising chickens this year and and now that my chickens are older (mass chicken-birthday in march) I have a few questions. I...

With that green sheen it looks like a Black Australorp to me. Hope she finds a good home!

"O rly?"

Aww - cute lil' peeps, I can't wait until mine grow up and get all crabby-broody. Do you know for sure what breed Silver is? I have a banty baby that looks almost exactly like that, partridge patterning, rosy breast, slate legs but with a while head and muffs - it's absolutely gorgeous.

I guess I'm just worrying over nothing then. First time hatching and I feel like I'm playing the part of the worried parent.