Thursday night dogs broke into one of my pens and killed around 17 of my birds.I lost almost all of my BBS Orps that I hatched from Tuffoldhen and my 3 year old Barred Rock Roo Elijah.All of my Auracana's from Jody are gone but one pullet and one little cockeral.It had to be the work of dogs...
It's finally dried out some where I could get some pictures.Here are just a few that I was able to get today.
This is the best Black cockeral I saved.He is really starting to fill his body out now.All of these are 10 months old now.
There's a BSL in this picture too.
These are some...
This is what I've ben doing early this morning,out washing jumbo peanuts in the yard getting ready for boiling.They made pretty good this year with all the rain we have had.Last year was a complete loss with the drought.These jumbo's are huge!!
Just to let you know the wildfires in SC are still raging and 2 people that I work with have lost their homes already.More than 70 have been destroyed and it's not under control.Mine is safe thank God but where I work is just about to be evacuated shortly.Please keep us in your prayers.
My bantam Silkie hatched a 4 large egg's for me and I believe two of them are pure Barred Rocks.I knew there was a good chance since the egg's came out of Moses and Elijah's pen who are both BR's.My 3 BR girls are in there with them so I knew if any of the egg's I picked were BR's they should be...
These are the true Blue Orps only.There are also the 3 Orp/Brahma mixes that are not in this picture.Don;t you just love an Orpington chick?These are the Blue Rocketetts girls all in a row.You should see those legs kick. lol
Look at the blue one in the front and tell me what you think?That's the one I told you about that came out of pen MA.
Also here are two of my pullets that are almost 5 weeks old.I moved them to their coop today and as you would guess they were just wanting to huddle in the corner and not be...
I'm most certainly this is George's daughter.I just stuck a couple of egg's in with shipped one's like I always do and this pullet hatched from one of his pen's egg's.She has to be a Blue Orp Light Brahma mix because the only other roo in his pen is Bojangles which is my buff barred wyandotte...
I'm not much on bantam breeds but can anyone tell me what this broody girl is.She came in an order of bantams from Ideal two years ago and I've sold them all but 10 hens that I kept.I know what my other ones are but she is a mystery to me.I would say some sort of duckwing but I maybe wrong.She...
I'm not sure what breed she is but I think she's some sort of Duckwing and my black silkie has decided to join her. lol
I just sold all of my bantams a few weeks ago and only kept about 10 hens.There's a chance their egg's may not be fertile but I plan on letting them have some large breed egg's...
I know several of you have had discussions about what to do with your extras when you don't sell them.My son is a volunteer fireman at 16 years old and we always give some extras to the guys at the station.They are always appreciative and as you know they have to cook for themselves while on...
She is in with all my 2 weeks old chicks and has been since they went in the brooder.The chicks love her to death and they try to cuddle under her to nap.She's getting practice at being a good broody already.She is so gentle and so glad I have her.As you can tell she is almost all solid blue...
They are 12 weeks old today.
I know the waterer looks really dirty but they have an automatic waterer in their pen however they have only been in their new coop for 4 days and have had a hard time getting used to using it. It's real familiar to them so I put it in there for them but they...
I think his chocolate is getting browner but he is a sweetie and is becoming a good flock roo for the layer pen he's in.He's already won a couple of scuffles with some of my older roo's. lol At least he finally has a decent tail now.Took him forever to grow one.
I have a little mixed breed hen that actually belonged to my neighbor.He gave her to an elderly lady a couple of houses down from me after she had a dog destroy all her chickens.He lets his free range all the time and this little girl was pretty beat up due to being out numbered with...