I got my chicks this past Friday (3/12/13). I got 39 total. I'd say about half are cornish cross and red broilers. I did get about 8 polish though (White, Buff and Black). I got two turkeys which were both dead in the box. That was kind of disappointing. All the chickens are doing fine...
Mine won't touch snow, they come out the pop door and right under the raised coop. I even shoveled their run and they still won't come out. Although I do have one black silkie who insists on eating snow and won't touch the waterer 2 feet away from her.
I've got a smaller coop with some RIR, 3 Silver Sebrights and 3 Silkies. I don't use heat and it's been pretty cold here in Rhode Island. 10-30F at night lately. The sebrights are always some of the first to come out into the cold in the morning. I do have a cookie tin water warmer so maybe...
Mine are just slightly smaller than my RIR eggs. I've only got two, both are solid black but one has white ear lobes and one has red. I get olive drab green eggs (which turn almost purple in the cold) from one and a mint/blue-ish color from the other although I don't know who lays what. I've...
Thanks CatDaddyFro & hangin'witthepeeps,
That's a big help! I didn't realize that about the ear lobes. I'm going to have to look a bit more closely when I get home. I don't think MPC which gets it's chicks from Meyer's (I think!) have silver-duckwing OEG and I was supposed to get full size...
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I got a pretty big selection from my pullet MPC order but as of 7 weeks there are still a couple of chicks I can identify. Any help is appreciated! Thanks
This one I think is a Phoenix pullet correct??? I've got a couple of them.
The next ones I'm not so sure. The white on in...
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I'm also from Rhode Island (Wakefield). I just got a bunch of Silver Spangled Hamburgs in. They are still all chicks about 3 weeks old and came from an all pullet order. I'm not sure if you wanted Silver Penciled or Silver Spangled but I thought I would throw it out there. I have...
I'm sure you can sneak them down there. After they get settled in they don't make too much noise.
I really wanted a barred rock but I think you guys are right. Oh well, I am still very happy with what I got! I was just looking at MPC and they sell Jersey Giants as baby chicks but I don't...
Golden Campine, I never would have caught that! Thanks!
Yeah I've been trying to figure out which chickens have 5 toes. I know it's not a silke. My understanding (and I've been wrong before) is that Dorklings, Faverolle , Houdan, and Sultan???
Houdan's don't have feathered legs so thats out...
Hi, So I got my MPC Rainbow Pullet order on Wednesday and I finally had a chance to do a little 'photo shoot' today. I've got some of them identified but others have me guessing. I'm very happy with my order, they shipped a great variety. Plus I was supposed to get 50 and they shipped 52...
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I've had mixed luck with mine. I managed to sell my GL Polish Roosters for $10 each a while back. And I sold three white silkie roosters for 3/$20. I had a bunch of interest in both of them. Currently I'm trying to give away an Easter Egger Rooster. Good looking bird too, no luck though. I...
I hope so cause I hate to think anything bad happened to them. I actually picked up a "replacement" keet shortly after I stopped my search. I'm looking forward to the washington county fair though. Gonna go down tonight!!!
Well my roommate was able to find a second one but it's been a few days now so I think the 3rd is lost for good. Thanks Robin416 for the advice though. I tried putting the two of them out there for a couple of days but I never heard any cries back or saw the missing 3rd keet. Anyways, thanks...
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Yesterday it was beautiful out and I decided I would take my 3 week old guinea keets out for the first time. Everything seemed to be going well but they were nervous and hid in the grass. So I figured I would put them back in and all 3 of them took off running into the woods. I spend...
I've got 5 Silkies and none of them roost either. The other 15 non-silkie chickens do but the silkies stay on the floor in the corner of the coop. They seem to like it as far as I can tell. If it is warm out they will crowd around the pop door and a couple will have their heads out at night.
I ordered from Cackle back in March.
I got 5 RIR Pullets (All turned out to be Pullets)
5 GL Polish (4 out of the 5 were Roos)
5 White Silkies (3 out of the 5 were Roos)
So 7 out of 10 straight run chicks were Roos. Kind of a small sample size though to draw too many conclusions. Let us...