So my nubby little girl is looking more and more like a little boy every day. I'm about 90% sure this one is going to crow. Notice the reddening of the crown, the wattle development, pointy wing feathers, and undefined tail feathers which seem to curl downward. All the signs of a cockrell. Such...
My flock is growing up so fast I finally got the two older chickens and the 6 youngins to get along well enough to share a coop. No more chickens in my living room! A bit strange not hearing their peeps all day. Now that the weather's nice I can enjoy some free range time with them in my over...
So my last post about Lucy (aka Nubby) talked mostly about her weird nubby wings (which is still a mystery), as well as her lack of feathers. Well, today I found an article about delayed feathering in chicks. It's not something I've personally come across before raising chicks, so I thought I...
I've introduced Lana and Tori, now I give you Lucy. Little Lucy is a very special Brahma chick. She's earned the nickname Nubby or Nubs or Nub Nub due to her... well.. nubby wings. I brought her and her sister (well two sisters, Audrey and Marilyn, unfortunately Marilyn was dead the next...
So I mentioned earlier that my sweet chick, Tali, was eaten by the neighbour's dog last week. My poor Lana was a lonely chicken as the other chicks are still very small. Well luckily I stumbled across an add posted by someone who bought way more Amaraucanas than they really should have, and so...
Little Lana is just over a month old, and is the sweetest little Easter Egger. Unfortunately, the neighbour's dog got her sister Natalia (Tali) this morning So here I am, keeping my poor lonely baby company. And yes, yes I have pulled several hairs out of her mouth and up out of her stomach...