Hey y'all! So excited about these two little guys!! The one on the left we call Little Jo Bunyan, and the other one doesn't have a name yet. The one on the right has the fuzziest of legs. Both of them are 1/2 Australorp 1/2 Cochin. We have a bantam Cochin, and a regular sized Cochin, but we're...
they've been on the eggs for about 19 or so days. I know that hens will abandon their eggs sometimes, thats why we did this: You know the hen who has the one chick and 7 eggs? well, we moved her to a small place by herself, so that she can raise her one chick, and incubate the remaining seven...
thing is, I think it would be really cool to get a Australorp / d'Uccle Mille Fluer mix, and I know you can't tell what breed chicks are from candling. (DUH) I think It'd be good to candle them and see how many are developing, but even if something looked clear, I'd be too scared to throw it...
Hello everyone! Okay, so I've got 18 full grown chickens altogether. These are their breeds and sexes: 16 Black Australorp females, 1 Black Bantam Cochin male, 1 huge Black Cochin male, 1 d'Uccle Mille Fluer male. (and all these chickens are in the same coop.) So anyways, I let 3 of our girls...
Hey thanks guys. I suppose it would be okay to put them in different pens since our coop is pretty big, but then we would have to take them out of their pens everyday, and put them in the run. (the 1st run is connected to the coop, the 2nd run is connected to the 1st run.)
And we have room...
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I have 16 chickens. 3 of them are roosters. All the hens are Australorps. 2 of the roosters are bantams. (one is d'Uccle Mille Fleur, other bantam is a black Cochin) The other rooster is a Big black Cochin. All of our chickens where together since they where 3 days old. They have always...