I would recommend a 2 box chicken coop, with quarter inch chicken wire. We purchased ours from tractor supply Around my area we are known to have chicken snakes, rattlers, opossums, racoons and loose dogs; along with various other chick hunting predators. Our girls started spending the night...
Dink-Dink is a mystery, I picked her from a brown leghorn bin as a chick, she didn't resemble them at all. Her body feather pattern is completely different. The only thing that matches my other leghorns is the neck band, white earlobes and big white eggs. I was told she's either hatchery quality...
If anyone is interested here is the link to when I first asked about her breed when she was a chick. She had a black head as a chick, and no mask, unlike the chocolate of the brown leghorn chicks. Dink-Dink is just special I guess...
The very first picture I posted is from a week ago, the second picture is from a few months ago when her comb was still small. The third (updated) picture is her currently at 7 months old. :) Hope that helps. Also (in the third pic) the sun was setting at just the right angle and makes her neck...
These are my brown leghorn girls (Pick, Peck and Dink-Dink) and their R.I.R. sister, Lucy :) foraging in their favorite spot, because of one certain plant they love to munch on haha!
Pick: was named properly, she has a diva hairstyle and was the first one to lay us an egg.
Peck: also named...
Here is a picture I just took of her. She's in the middle, her brown leghorn sister, Pick, on the left and her Rhode Island Red sister, Lucy, on the right. Our other brown leghorn Peck didn't want to be in the family portrait.
I thought about that too! Possibly a mix of the golden phoenix considering she has no different color on her chest and her body feathers are near black in color. :)
Thank you for the compliment! The partial group photo was when they were still young, have to get that updated ;) And the thought of her being a brown leghorn mix has crossed my mind; I just wasn't sure.
I've posted once before about my Dink-Dink when she was a chick. I picked her from the same bin as my two brown leghorn girls. Responses I received were telling me she looked like a Partridge Rock. This was not the case as she progressed into maturity and developed white earlobes, and laid her...
My Husband and I purchased what we thought was 3 Brown Leghorns (From the same bin at our Local Feed Store) for us, and 1 Rhode Island Red, for my Mother. We have now had them for 2 days and the more I look at 'Dink-Dink', the more I am certain she's not a Brown Leghorn. I will love her to...