This may have been asked before, but I didn't find it easily... so here goes:
I have four black Jersey giant chicks and four GLW chicks, all pullets (assuming the sexing went right). I got them all as 1 day olds; they're four weeks now. A couple of the chicks - including two of the Jersey...
Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :
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I think they're eliciting some deep subliminal mother-hen instinct in me. I see them and have an overwhelming urge to tuck one under each arm and wander around clucking and scratching at the ground. Hmmm.
Ah-o!!! YOU HAVE IT BAD!!!! Don't fill bad, ... I've done...
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I got them from Meyers Hatchery here in Ohio - it was only about an hour and a half drive. So easier on the little peeps for me to go pick them up than to send them through the mail.
That's so cool! They're just ...
I think they're eliciting...
Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :
KDH Your babies are adorable!!!!! Where'd you get'em from?
I got them from Meyers Hatchery here in Ohio - it was only about an hour and a half drive. So easier on the little peeps for me to go pick them up than to send them through the mail.
Drumroll.... here are my two black Jersey Giant pullets - three days old in the picture. They're the very first JG I've ever had - or seen in the flesh. They seem so tiny. Hard to believe they'll grow up to be solid black. And, well, giants.
One is named Esmerelda. Why, I don't know. It just...