Have you ever seen anything like this?
They seem to go into a trance when I hold them, especially if it sunny out.
They look dead, especially this one, he/she really relaxes.
Weird huh?
Cat trying to look all innocent. Who me?
Inga
These chicks are a little over 3 weeks old. They are mutts, but still so cute! Just wondering if anyone has any early guesses to gender?
Same one:
Both together:
Compared to the cat(who would no doubt eat them if given the chance):
Thanks!
Inga
I followed the advice on here about not opening incubator once chicks start to hatch. Ours started to hatch 4 days before day 21 in incubator, so we filled up the water reservoir and shut the incubator. Today we had a friend check on them this morning and 9 were hatched and alive. We came...
The small brown and medium green egg are from chickens who have been laying since last week. This is the first from this hen today. She did make the egg song before laying it.
There was a little bit of blood on it too. Poor girl, her first and she got no break with smaller eggs!
Inga
We got our first egg yesterday. I was surprised to find a small green egg when I went and checked the nest boxes. After so many months of not finding anything. Well, I was really surprised that it was green. Because the chicken that we know to be an EE, I didn't think was ready to lay yet...
I got these chickens from a neighbor down the road in May. I assume they were born in late March/early April. We thought they were all hens at first but 2 are definitely trying to crow. They sound broken though. I am thinking by reading and looking at pics that we actually have 3 roosters...