Recent content by Zoeyheart

  1. Zoeyheart

    Ended Official BYC-Mini Contest - Post a pic of your chickens with your other

    my little ones, 6 weeks old , showgirl / turken crosses foraging by the cats/protectors. Who needs dogs?
  2. Zoeyheart

    WINNER ANNOUNCED Comb Contest 2014 - V

    This ia Spot, she was the product of an affair between a turken hen and a polish Roo. She is 9 months old.
  3. Zoeyheart

    Polish Turken?

    This was the hatching of the imfamous non crowing Peepoe, He is a feather necked showgirl and has fathered a few chicks. I keep finding fertile eggs from my polish-turken. should be fun. Here is Peepoe now and here is Spot, his Lady Love. She did not get the naked neck like her sister...
  4. Zoeyheart

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I just had my first "all natural" chick. Peepoe my little Silkie Roo who has never ever crowed (be jealous) bred with a silkie hen and an egg hatched yesterday. I am a bit concerned about weather the chick can get what he needs if he is in the hen house. not access to water etc. Should I put...
  5. Zoeyheart

    Possums are Chicken Killers

    oh, I used canned cat food. stinky and a great lure.
  6. Zoeyheart

    Possums are Chicken Killers

    Be sure your water source is deep enough to fully cover the cage.... Things you dont thinnk about until that moment you say "oh crap"
  7. Zoeyheart

    Five toed breeds

    I just had a hatchling from an elicite affair, mother was a cochin naked neck cross, father I am told is a silver splash polish. one has normal feet, naked neck and a bit of a crest, the other is full feathers and has 5 toes on one foot and 5 on the other.. no silkies involved, no telling...
  8. Zoeyheart

    Possums are Chicken Killers

    I caught my first possum last night, I have lost at least 8 hens in the past year. it is about the size of a cat. I still suspect most of the damage is racoon, though I have never seen one here. I live on a penninsula/island area with lots of mangroves and I think they live around there...
  9. Zoeyheart

    Polish Turken?

    I aquired a pair of Tokens... turken/cochin crosses. After deliving them to me i was told that they had been romanced by a polish roo. I tested the first egg for fertility and put the next 6 in the incubator. They are due on the 8th. Cant wait to see. I just hatched my first showgirls over...
  10. Zoeyheart

    New Here with our first six baby chicks!

    Just hatched today, 1 little feather necked showgirl. Here siblings have not pipped yet. maybe tomorrow, They are in there and wiggling but no tapping yet.
  11. Zoeyheart

    Finally joined

    I come here all the time to answer or verify chicken question. I finally actually joined. I am an urban backyard chicken keeper, I love hatching my own. Right now I have 6 showgirl eggs due to hatch in 4 days and am getting ready to put eggs from a turken/cochin hen that was romanced buy a...
See more
Back
Top Bottom