2020 Flock Life

Brahmachicken240 · Mar 5, 2020

MysticUniKitty said:
Thanks for tagging me!

So intro: my name is Monica. Im a stay at home mom turned chicken carer. Last March my then 5 yr old son was obsessed with chickens, we thought it a phase....nope! We finally caved and got him 12 chicks. He loved them, cuddled them, took them on adventures, and got me hooked too! We've rehomed and added since then, but my kiddo has a special bond with all our chickens. He can run and play and they follow him and want his attention, even our big rooster!

I don't like birds, but I have to say this adventure with chickens has changed my tune a bit. At the start of fall we had 18 chickens, we now only have 13 grown ups. A coyote and neighbor dog have been sneaking girls. . So we tried ordering chicks and got all roosters, but chick days started and I now have 17 babies, 3 four month olds we hatched, and our 13 adults. Waiting for the ground to dry a bit before finishing up the new large run.

Here's some pics!
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All the babies: OE, Giants, BR, Comets, and Orps.
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Our big boy Toasted. He's a sweety!
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His three babies I was able to hatch. Two OE mix males and one cinnamon queen mix girl.
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All our remaining girls. It's been raining almost nonstop till this morning, so everything is a mess!

Everyones Looking great!
toasted looks gorgeous!
I have one young lemon Pyle cockerel that I kept from my last hatch in September

he was a bit slow to grow at the start but he just had a big growth spurt there recently.

It’s been raining nonstop here too, luckily this past few days haven’t been so bad.
sorry for your losses :hugs

We were having lot’s of fox problems around the end of last year
Our neighbours lost all of their chickens a few weeks ago but I haven’t heard or seen any foxes since then, so they must of got him..

Brahmachicken240 · Mar 5, 2020

CyndieRauls said:
It’s all so beautiful!!! Your gardens are my goals. We moved onto our undeveloped property November 2017... we have so much catching up to do. Lovely, lovely ❤

thanks!!

cluckmecoop7 · Mar 5, 2020

Thanks!

Brahmachicken240 · Mar 5, 2020

cluckmecoop7 said:
Hiya! Sorry, I lost this thread. (stopped getting alerts. IDK....)

Well, I'm back!!!
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Nice Coop!
I like your setup.

MysticUniKitty · Mar 5, 2020

Brahmachicken240 said:
Everyones Looking great!
toasted looks gorgeous!
I have one young lemon Pyle cockerel that I kept from my last hatch in September
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he was a bit slow to grow at the start but he just had a big growth spurt there recently.

It’s been raining nonstop here too, luckily this past few days haven’t been so bad.
sorry for your losses
We were having lot’s of fox problems around the end of last year
Our neighbours lost all of their chickens a few weeks ago but I haven’t heard or seen any foxes since then, so they must of got him..

He's gorgeous!!! Our neighbor lost their entire flock this last month, now that we know what we're up against we've set traps and my other neighbor has the ability to despatch it. (He lost his long waited calf to it, so he's pretty ticked) Looks like this winter wasn't kind to a lot.

I'm so jelly of your gardens!!! I have a black thumb, kill any plant I touch! I saw Luna's babies! They're beautiful! I wish I could get my hands on more variety of brahmas in my area... But I have to have them shipped and it just gets sooo expensive!

cluckmecoop7 · Mar 5, 2020

Brahmachicken240 said:
Nice Coop!
I like your setup.

Thank you! Here is a close up of the coop from about 1 month ago.

Brahmachicken240 · Mar 5, 2020

MysticUniKitty said:
He's gorgeous!!! Our neighbor lost their entire flock this last month, now that we know what we're up against we've set traps and my other neighbor has the ability to despatch it. (He lost his long waited calf to it, so he's pretty ticked) Looks like this winter wasn't kind to a lot.

thats horrible about the calf. Good luck catching it! :fl

MysticUniKitty said:
I'm so jelly of your gardens!!! I have a black thumb, kill any plant I touch! I saw Luna's babies! They're beautiful! I wish I could get my hands on more variety of brahmas in my area... But I have to have them shipped and it just gets sooo expensive!

thank you!

Brahmachicken240 · Mar 5, 2020

Just after closing everyone in.
It was nice and sunny out today, it was probably the warmest day so far this year.
Here’s some photos from today.

Luna the Golden Partridge Brahma and one of her Daughters named Clover.
Luna is part of the original flock that I started off with and Clover was hatched in September, I also used an incubator to hatch the all the September chicks...
All of the other chicks were hatched by broodies

Rocky the Blue Partridge Brahma cockerel.
He was hatched last may.

my little RIRxGolden Partridge Brahma mix.
names are welcome..

She was hatched last September.
How are your Brahma mixes getting on @FortCluck ?

Dixie the buff Orpington hen.
I’ve had her for nearly three years now.

another one of Lunas daughters
Named Goldie. She was hatched last August.

Daisy the blue buff columbian Brahma pullet.
She’s one of the best layers we have at the moment. She was hatched last June.

Cookies and her sister Cream

(on the bottom) they’re the hardest to tell apart out of them all. They were hatched last September

That’s Cream in the front and Cookies in the background right behind her

Penny the blue buff columbian Brahma hen.
She’s one of the original ones that I started with. She’s also the largest hen out of them all

Clucky the blue buff columbian Brahma hen (sitting on the branch) she’s one of the noisier ones.. she was hatched last may.

Fluffy the lemon Pyle Brahma hen.
she’s also from my original flock that I started with

Custard the blue buff columbian Brahma pullet. she was hatched last August.

This My RIR, we just call her mother hen because she was our first broody and she hatched all of the original Brahmas. I’ve had her for almost 3 years now. She’s our best layer.

this is Ginger, she’s a buff Orpington mix and she was hatched with the original Brahmas, she’s Dixies daughter..

Daisy on the left, Isabella on the right.
both are blue buff columbian. Isabella started incubating the September hatched eggs but she gave up and joined Dixie and her chicks when they hatched in mid August, luckily I had just bought an new incubator to save them at the time. Isabella is also one of our original Brahmas