I know right where that is. I grew up in The Colony, over by Lewisville...and we moved to the San Antonio area around 1994. Farmers Branch has grown so much over the last 20 years, it's crazy!
If any of the 3 pics were Black marans, I'd go with some in the 2nd pic with the black and white spotted wings. Black Marans are awesome chickens to have as well. We've got a few.
Ooh, Black Australorps are my favorite. Is that what's in the bottom photo?
In the top pic, if those brown ones with the dark brown down their backs are Welsummers, they are wonderful egg layers!
I'm Julie and I cannot remember if I've posted an intro, so here goes.
1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
We have had chickens for going on 3 years now.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Right now we have 4 hens and a drake pekin duck.
We bought about...
I've been looking all over the web, YouTube, here, and I'm trying to figure out what is going on with my 2 month old Pekin female. She's been healthy and strong until this week when I noticed she can't walk as far as the other duck now. She frequently stops to sit down, her leg might shake a...
I'm definitely going to try this as my drake has been an ornery little toot lately. I thought maybe it was because he's still mourning the loss of his mate, and still traumatized by being chased by a coyote. We bought 2 more ducklings and we've tried introducing them to him, but he's a mean...
Thanks for the tips. Our next door neighbor had a predator attack and kill 3 of their chickens, so they warned us, since we're outside everyday preparing the coop and pen for our girls. We hope to move them outside this week.
We picked up a solar rope light to staple all the way around the inside of our coop for at night. We bought it at Habor Freight for about $13, I believe. I'll let you know how it works.
http://www.harborfreight.com/solar-rope-light-68353.html
Just wanted to say hello from Texas. We just became the proud new owners of 8 baby chicks and 3 ducklings.
I've never owned any animal other than a dog or hamster... so I figured I should find a place to ask questions and research these beautiful animals.
Let's see, we bought:
2 Buff...