My husband and I have been building a brooder/chicken tractor for several weeks now. It has been slow going, but we can almost see the finish line. I will post what we have done so far. The chicks are now living in the chicken tractor, so they have to hang out in their old rubbermaid tubs...
They are in a brooder/chicken tractor combo we have built. I take them out during the day when it is nice, and bring them back into the garage at the end of the day. We have had a really bad winter this year, so the ground is like a giant wet sponge. They are getting out of the brooder as...
Well I was pretty sure Nugget was looking like a rooster. I was confused about his comb because it didn't look right for a Wyandotte. He is a lucky bird because he is so sweet, and always begs for my attention. It may save his life from the frying pan. I don't plan on showing birds just...
Thanks for all the feedback certainly explains why there is so much fighting going on in the brooder of 5 chickens that seem to be all turning out to be roos.:( Maybe I can find them homes.
This is Ping who was born on 2/11/14. I ordered a Chocolate, but this bird is jet black. I am not sure what happened there, but I would like to know if I have a hen or roo.
When I bought my three one black, one blue, and one splash the breeder turned the dark ones over and showed me under a light the difference. It was difficult, but I could see the blue and black wings on the under sides of their wings. My splash was yellow like the ones in your picture. My...
I am so thankful for this site. I saw dandruff on my baby chicks today, and about freaked out! Oh! no! mites or lice!!! I see them preening all the time, so they are working on it! They are all getting new feathers, so we are seeing some chicken dandruff. We are good! Thank you BYC!
These are my other two. I cut the head off of the one, but you can see their colors really well. One is a Black and one is blue. They seem to be really friendly, but I have a older Golden laced Wyandotte that is really wild. I got her from another farm when she was a month old, and she...
This is Nugget born March 2014:)
Red laced Blue Wyandotte Splash. I am not sure what sex the chick is, so have to wait for the crowing, or egg laying to start.
This is Nugget short for Chicken Nugget. I named him that because he is the smallest of the 5 chicks, but he jumps up into the face of the largest chick which is three times his size and pecks it. I said you are surely a rooster, so you are going to end up in the skillet, so I called him...
I just got a Blue laced red wyandotte splash chick a week ago. I will try to take a picture of Nugget tomorrow. Nugget is still yellow with a tiny bit of white on the wings. I don't know if Nugget is a girl or boy yet. Time will tell!
I have been looking at BYC for some time now. I hate to admit for over 2 years, but I was unable to have chickens because of health reasons. I am better now, so I recently got chicks after a 33 year gap of raising chickens. I had all kinds of different chickens when I was a kid. Right now I...