25 chickens of all different shapes and sizes! 11 Straight Run laying hens that are currently producing just shy of a dozen large extra large eggs a day. 14 Assorted bantams (Seabrights, OEG, and Duccle/OEG mixes, and possible Seabright/OEG mix) Two of the bantam females have sat once this...
Thanks for the insight guys! Guess we have some more waiting and research. He seems like a really terrific chicken, very people friendly, not skittish and he likes to be held.
happy to announce we are up to 16 chicks!!! We are getting a lot of fun ones, we like to call the Chocolate Chip Cookies
They seem to be cream with reddish colored faces, and black spots.... Only thing we can think of is our red pyle game bantam girl and a sebright rooster... seeing how if...
We have a clutch due this week... we are thinking Wednesday through Sunday since they came so early this first time! And another clutch due next week Guess we're around for the long haul as well
Our 7th and final chick hatched last night!
This chick had been pipping for two days without any progress other than a very small crack by his beak. We have been very worried and really didn't want to lose this chick because it is another from our favorite hen which we lost last week. We...
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We put the baby under her last night when it was super dark snuck him under her in the back!
going out in a few to check
*update*
Just checked on the little guy with all the others and he is doing great!!!! all 6 were under Ginger this morning when we went out....
Also, last...
woke up this morning to the 6th little guy hatched outta this clutch!!!!
Had to put it under another broody as Ginger didn't want to sit....
That means one left and that 100% hatching! I hope this one hatches as it was our favorite chicken we just had to put down a week ago Already have one...
We used liquid Sevin on Ginger's hotspots (the lice had laid a ton of eggs between her wattles) and dusted her a couple times yesterday really well. This morning we checked her and she looked good so we gave her babies back and she immediatly pulled them all under her wings. She was really...
Beautiful pictures!!!!
We are still up to five, but realized after Ginger decided to get off her nest that the other two eggs where placed a few days later, so hopefully today or tomorrow!
Had to put the two eggs left under another broody as mama Ginger was ready to show the five how to...
Up to five out of seven!!!!!
Looks like another Sebright Hope everyone else is doing good... the end of the day is coming, everyone who has been at work might have surprises!!!
Two more bundles of joy this morning!
Could be a full blooded sebright as we have sebright roosters and hens...
Another yellow, this time with black spots on its back...
Here is a video clip of the first two chicks, the d'Uccle mix is the one jumping on mommy's back.
Also this is the real mother of the little guys. She is the one who clung to these eggs tell about two days before when the sebright hen stole her clutch and managed to take the first glory as we...
Here are some new shots we took today. The wing and back feathers are really starting to look like a Mille Fleur Belgium d'Uccle, though the head and other feathering doesn't and there are hardly any boot feathers compared to the other d'Uccles we had at the same age. At this point we are...
Their site is sorely lacking and we've tried Emailing them also without much luck.
We've gotten a silkie, along with golden and silver sebrights as well as Porcelein & Mille Fleur d'Uccles from them for sure. Other bantams we've gotten look like Old English Game bantams to us but we aren't...
This chick was born 29 March 2010 at Townline hatchery and we're not quite sure what it is. When it was a chick it looked pretty clearly like an old english game bantam, perhaps a silver duckwing, but we don't really know. As it has aged it does not look like any chicken we can find. Any help is...
Excited to report we found two chicks under one of our sebrights this afternoon. One is clearly older than the other as one chick is dry, fluffy, and is able to stand and walk, and the other is still wet and wobbly. We had six or seven eggs under this sebright and expected them to start hatching...
thanks for the help, un-fortunately Clemmie went down hill really fast yesterday and we ended up loosing her
We are on a scheduled worming from now on as we have lost both our D'Uccles to worms... We have babies growing up so time to stick with a plan
Thanks for the help, I will remember...