We just had our broody Buff Orpington hen (Linda’s Stewart) hatch 6 chicks. She is in a coop and run with one Speckled Sussex roo with 10 Isa Brown hens and 7 Speckled Sussex hens. From the color of the eggs they all looked like they were laid by Isa Brown hens as our Speckled Sussex hens lay...
We purchased this guy with a pullet as a day old chicks from a breeder who said they were Araucana. The pullet has tufts and is all white and a small pea comb. In the last few weeks I noticed that his comb seems off as it is not what I thought was a pea comb. It did look like a pea initially...
Put 18 Barred Rock eggs in the incubator this afternoon. Picked them up from a local breeder so no shaken chick syndrome. We ordered 11 Barred Rock chicks in April but as they got to a month old we realized we were given the wrong breed (we believe they are black Jersey Giants.). So not taking...
We ordered Barred Rocks, Cream Legbar and Welsummer from our local feed store. They placed the order and we received them the week of April 21. We realized 3 weeks in that the Barred Rocks we ordered are not what we received. (See photo below.). We believe these are either New Jersey Giants...
Just wanted to share a picture of an Araucana chick we purchased last Monday from a breeder who we got the fertile Silverudd Blue eggs from. This is the first we had Araucana. I have read that Araucana with face feather on both sides are difficult to hatch. Well after 7 days it looks like we...
Just picked up these future chicks from a person an hour away. Got there and she also had two Araucana chicks that hatched yesterday and this morning. Yup the came home to us as well. We have 19 more chicks coming home on Wednesday. Chick math….It is REAL! Now I have had my incubator...
I am hatching eggs for the first time in 10 years and there was some great BYC forums that helped me along. I am now trying to relearn what I did in the past. I was usually very successful. Now I am located in FL and wonder if there is not some specific things I need to know due to the...
Raising chickens 2.0 but this time in Florida. Picked up our first 20 today. 10 Speckled Sussex (a first for us) and 10 Buff Orpington (not a first for us). 20 and more to come.
My name is Rhonda and I am in Nth Ctrl Florida. We are starting all over again with chickens. We are very excited. At one time we had over 70 chickens (roo-roos and hens combined). We used the girls for yummy fresh eggs for personal eating pleasure and resale and the roo-roos hung around...