What a pretty roo! We have 2 RIRs 18 weeks old...anxiously awaiting our first eggs lol. My most friendly chicken is one of our RIRs. She comes and chats with me every time I walk outside
I went outside to check on the chickens and ducks (we just started letting everyone free range)....These guys have a good sized kiddie pool but they choose to both get in this water tub together lol...goofy ducks
3 of my 4 bigger girls are pretty quiet most of the time...occasionally making noises at eachother but mostly quiet...one of my RIRs chats with me everytime I come near the coop though....she is my fave and the most social
My favorite thing is our 2 mallards....they are too funny....they just...
we use mosquito dunks in our horse water troughs and dog water troughs and they work great. I would figure if they are safe for horses they'd be find for the ducks too.....but I havent used them in the duck pool because I just dump it and refill it every couple of days...so someone might be...
Well if we don't get olive eggs I don't care....lol....my kids picked her because she had cute little feathers down the side of her legs I was told she was an olive egger and that is the extent of my knowledge on that lol....I don't think they will be too disappointed over the color of the...
I have had a gut feeling about Elsa being a Roo for awhile.... :-/ bad news....he/she is my daughters favorite lol I wasn't really concerned about Anna until she started sparring with Elsa....none of the others tend to do that soooo I started wondering.
That looks like our other Wyandotte...
I am in no way a seasoned pro but this is what worked for me when I integrated out 7 week olds in with our big girls
I kept them in a separate pen in the coop/run with the big girls that way they were near each other but couldn't get to each other. We did this for about a week or two....After...
I am guessing they are around 7 ish weeks? (I was guessing around 3-4 weeks when we got them...we've had them 3-4 weeks) but I am new to this chicken thing soooooo It's just a semi educated guess
of the 7 babies I am fairly certain 5 are pullets there are two that I'm not sure about....at what...
the black and white one (2nd) looks a lot like one of our easter eggers (I am not an expert by any means....but he/she looks very much like our little easter egger)
Finally got the kids to name the 4 unnamed pullets :) sky, glamour, blackie, and fuzzy
And we had to change one of the mallards name.....turns our Elsa is actually a boy....He is now Marshall (from paw patrol lol)
I'm no good at tellling the gender until it is OBVIOUS lol but I am fairly certain we have one mallard drake and one mallard hen....our drake is starting to get green on the sides of his head and getting more and more gray in his wings. His chest is becoming more of a coppery color.
Both...
Dont be too hard on yourself. My daughter brought home 2 chicks from school. After a few weeks I decided to put them (In a smaller cage) in the coop with the 4 bigger pullets. They were fine for a couple of weeks then I walked out one morning to a snake in the cage....one chick laying there...
I let my kids name them....most of them are named after disney princesses
Merida : Rhode Island Red
Ariel: Rhode Island Red
Rapunzel: Buff Orpington
Chicken nugget: Buff Orpington
Sven: Mallard Duck
Elsa: Mallard Duck
Anna II: Olive Egger
Elsa II: Easter Egger
Dot: Wyandotte
then we have...
I did this for the first time today... I put a frozen of gallon of water in the big coop for the big birds (tomorrow I will put two...I had to get my kids to empty the rest of the milk :D ) in the cage our babies are in I took a couple of 20oz bottles of water (frozen) and stuck them in a...
More pics.....this time of the babies....The first one is Anna (the olive egger) and one of the Wyandotte babies that doesn't have a name...and a random pic of the babies :D
This one is one of the black sex linked (who doesn't have a name...and I missed the other one somehow but she doesn't...
That is exactly what happened with our chicks (sooo glad I walked out there to check on them and not the kids) but the snake had gotten in and eaten one chick......and killed the other (not sure if it had a heart attack or what) then was too fat to get back out.....
I think it's a great start! we have a metal building that was half carport and half storage building/well house for our water well. we took the front section of the carport half and framed it in to be our coop. The other side is still storage/well house. I can still pull my truck in to the...