Update on my wild ladies. Ones a Rooster!!!! Lol love it. He just started crowing and the other roosters are not pleased with his intrest in thier hens. All 5 of the wild chickens let me pick them up and move them around and only one trys to peck me . Her and I are working through it. Before I...
I have a little giant from Wal-Mart with egg turner. The I put them in a homemade cooler incubator for lock down. I do a dry hatch then at lock down I try to keep the humidity at 65-72
Also I have no intentions of selling them as bielefelders just having fun learning how to hatch and raise babies if or when I sell them as pullets and cockerel they will be called mixed chickens. This feed is just my story of figuring out how to get some wild ladies to be my friend and the...
I am getting a flock from a reputable breeder out of Mississippi. Until then I'm having fun with the guess the chicken. I know that my roo and that the hens I got from my friends farm are either mixes with a bielefelder or was fertilized by him. Valerie the orginal owner of the wild chickens ...
Fun side note . When I picked up the first chicken before the night raid AkA Destiny she was laying on an egg about 16 ish. The trip from the dog kennel I happanded to find her in to my kennel some got broke. However I put the rest in the incubator and they hatched here are the babies. Now...
Today there milling around loving life. When I come to the field they perk up and look at me. Makes me feel like they have accepted me . Here's some pics from this morning
They are doing great about three days ago I opened their pen and have been letting them roam free with the rest of my flock. I have an auraucana rooster that has claimed them as his hens and sleeps with them at night. Each night they go back to their roosting bars in the pen that I lock up at...
I am 5 days into the taming these wild ladies. I have two juvenile pullets that settle quickly when I hold them. Two Hens I would say a year and a half or two years old. The one that looks the most like a Bielefelder Kennhuhn hen does well when I hold her . She doesn't squak any more. The other...
Hi everyone,
I started chickens and the love for them June 2021. My 1st hatch was a clutch of eggs given to me as an early birthday present. Out of it I hatched successfully 3 eggs. Out of those 3 eggs is my favorite chicken, Chick Chick, who just so happens to be a rooster. Now when Chick...