Missouri Maiden: WOW!! What a spectacular rooster!!! How on earth does he stay so strikingly white? He is truly beautiful. Just curious -Do you bathe him?
My cats are very interested in my chicks, I let my older chicks ( 13 weeks old) out to freerange just before dark, I have to guard my chicks with the garden hose, which I have used on the cats once they start stalking. They keep trying every few days or so, i guess to see if I changed my mind...
Yes!!! Forgive me!!!!! I was looking at all the winners and I just loved that Diana and Peeper shot, I cannot wait till I can have my own hen and chicks.....I got distracted!
Here's my happy dance:
This is what my avatar looks like now, well at 8 weeks.....he's 13 weeks now and gets...
Mine? He was IDed as EE to me,at my local feed store - they had just arrived, I watched them get taken out of the crates they flew in on...he looked just like all the other EEs until he got older.
Edit - my avatar pic is of him as a baby
Yep, I agree, all girls!
I have one EE roo who loves me, the other 3 could care less...they'll tolerate handling, but don't hop in my lap like the one! I have hens that like us, and others that run if we even look at them like we are going to pick them up - I think it has alot to do with...
She is fluffy! But I'm pretty darn sure she's a buff orpington, my other EEs chick has alot more fluffy beard- it almost covers her eyes! Altho I did order BO, who really knows what I got!? Those hatcheries never make mistakes right?!?
If others agree she is not a BO, I will withdraw my pics, no...
I got my little "odd ball" from a small local feed store here, I have no idea where he gets his birds from. She has always been small with the odd feathers from start...we too love ours as she is smart and cuddly! and awfully cute!
Thats what I was thinking, like 90% BR and 10% silkie. I'm not so sure its the others picking on her cause I went and looked at her to check for damage I might have missed and look at the feathers again. the odd feathers are pretty much all over, even places I doubt picking would happen. and the...