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Trucks don’t have the capacity for sensation or feeling, life or death. But… sorry to hear about your truck 🔥

Magic is a Whiting True Blue cockerel. He gets about 10 foot up on this old pen and surveys his yard.

I hand feed them in the brooder to get them used to moving towards my hand. When I feed them I call out “here chicky chicky” and they quickly catch on. As they munch on the food I will pick them up and gently set them down to get them used to being handled.

Are you sure it’s a whiting true blue? It looks a little different.

IMO I appreciate being able to pick up a chicken without having to chase it or use a net. That trust is built over time. It’s best to build that relationship early as possible in their development.

My pullets have been laying since mid March and the eggs have faded some and the speckles have increased. This one is from my lighter of the 2 marans.

I take that back, mine were only 2 weeks old when I let them into the main coop. You can use a bucket with nipples if you are concerned about a mess.

Here’s some of the chicks foraging by the coop. I have atleast 5 males. Some of the dark ones are getting silver on their hackles. I’ll need to start finding homes for the cockerels real soon.

Should be fine. I let my latest chicks into the coop with the main flock around 3-4 weeks.

If you find any good ones in Texas, let us now.

I found the experience of the forums is better when I put the ppl on IGNORE that consistently and confidently make incorrect claims.

Thanks! I like her body type and the beetle shine on her feathers . I’ve read that the SOP says they have to have bay colored eyes. She has these greenish light melon colored eyes. She’s one of the few chickens that jumps up in my lap every day. Edit: she just jumped a gave me a good picture of...

No. You might be over complicating this situation. It is natural for chickens to be outside, in living soil, eating rocks, scratching and dust bathing. They will do this as soon as it is available.

Thanks! I have a small flock of 5 whiting true blues and 2 black copper marans pullets. Also with 14 chicks, most are Easter eggers and some are pure black copper marans. I plan to keep all the pullets from this last hatch and then in the fall I should have around 13 layers and 1 rooster.

Thanks! He’s a whiting true blue and she is a black copper marans. They’re both under a year old.

It looks like it’s a cockerel. If anybody’s interested in him, I’m in central Texas and you can have him, I wasn’t planning on keeping any of the males from this group. Check out the attitude in the video. Ever see a pullet act like that?

Here’s another partial fibro chick. Seems to be the only one with a single comb. He sorta has that mulberry color comb/earlobe. Good looking Black Cooper Maran cockerel @wrathsfarm I think he might be the only one. The others have dark or pale combs. This barred chick came labeled as a Marans...

I’m just going out on limb here. I think it will be all white. I’ve seen pics of Zombies and they are a cross of white leghorn and all black ayam cemani. They usually have some black feathers mixed with the white. This all white chick is from I believe a multi generation fibro olive egger so...

The grit isn’t for the dust bath. It is used to aid digestion. I sprinkle chick sized grit into the chick crumble at feed time. The earlier the better. Using grit improves digestion and feed efficiency. Studies prove that grit fed chicks significantly out perform control groups in growth...