2022 The Rest of the Story

[WIchickMama]

Not to sidetrack from the chickens but @3KillerBs if that is you in the pics your hair is soooooo long! that is amazing!

 

[3KillerBs]

Not to sidetrack from the chickens but @3KillerBs if that is you in the pics your hair is soooooo long! that is amazing!

I can't sit on it, but it does touch the chair I sit on.

Usually I have it up when working with chickens, but happened to have it down last night.

 

[Iluveggers]

Aww if you were closer to me, I would happily take that blue half-Cochin off of your hands. Blue Cochin is on DSs list for next year! (Yes I am raising a future chicken mather). Lol

 

[3KillerBs]

Did banding and photos on the July 3rd hatch today -- 9 weeks old.

I had *tried* to hatch only Australorp eggs and failed miserably in my selection -- probably getting only one "keeper" pullet.

Red Band. Likely male, likely pure Blue Australorp.

I *thought* he was half-Cochin but looking at that comb I wonder if I accidentally hatched Brahma eggs -- though I could normally tell which eggs were Dumplings because they were usually strangely round. He's massive.

Here's another of those weird combs on a black male with silver leakage and light foot feathering.

Austra-Wyan-Orp -- the rose comb gives it away.

Purple Band. DQ Blue Australorp pullet. Lovely color, but she has one feather on her left foot. I don't suspect her of being half-Langshan, just of being one of those occasional genetic flukes that pop up.

Green Band. Black Australorp male.

Red and Yellow. Keeper Blue Australorp pullet.

Double Pink, Black Australorp male.

 

[3KillerBs]

Sold 5 birds today.

2 of the hens from my ad, one of the ones I was going to put into an ad once I could separate the for-sale birds from the keepers, one of the two Delawares (who were so identical that it didn't matter which one I caught for sale and which one I kept), and the little Australorp girl with the one feather on her foot flaw.

That one is going to be a little girl's special pet chicken.

 

[3KillerBs]

3 more girls off to a new home.

Since they had a pack of kids with them I made sure NOT to sell them the Java who bites. Instead, I picked out the Dominique, who is the friendliest bird in the flock. They also took the Lavender Orpington and one of the Lavender Orpington x SLW girls.

 

[3KillerBs]

I have officially lost count of how many I've sold, but I've sold all the hens I'm going to sell.

5 young gentlemen from the July hatch went to Camp Cockerel tonight. I'll get photos and put them up for sale tomorrow ($5 each, inquire if interested).

I *meant* to count the remaining chickens when I closed them up tonight but forgot in the excitement of DH surprising us with the stuff for s'mores and the intent to use the new firepit.

The first egg has hatched in the incubator and I have 2 more external pips.

 

[3KillerBs]

Did banding and photos on the July 3rd hatch today -- 9 weeks old.

I had *tried* to hatch only Australorp eggs and failed miserably in my selection -- probably getting only one "keeper" pullet.

Red Band. Likely male, likely pure Blue Australorp.
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I *thought* he was half-Cochin but looking at that comb I wonder if I accidentally hatched Brahma eggs -- though I could normally tell which eggs were Dumplings because they were usually strangely round. He's massive.
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Here's another of those weird combs on a black male with silver leakage and light foot feathering.
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Austra-Wyan-Orp -- the rose comb gives it away.
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Purple Band. DQ Blue Australorp pullet. Lovely color, but she has one feather on her left foot. I don't suspect her of being half-Langshan, just of being one of those occasional genetic flukes that pop up.
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Green Band. Black Australorp male.
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Red and Yellow. Keeper Blue Australorp pullet.
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Double Pink, Black Australorp male.
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This batch actually ended up having 5 boys and 4 girls instead of the 7 and 2 I'd though I had.

The girl with the feather on her foot and a black girl were sold. I kept 2 blues -- one medium-toned and one dark.

 

[3KillerBs]

I just counted my chickens when I put them away -- first fishing some of them out of the nests so I could line them up on the perches.

1 gorgeous Blue Australorp rooster.

18 hens and pullets from 14 weeks to 2 years.

5 cull cockerels.

13 new-hatched chicks, one of which is my long-awaited splash.

3 remaining unhatched eggs. Strongly doubt more than 2 would hatch and not counting on any more hatching since it's been 24 hours since the first early-bird hatched.

 

[Sally PB]

13 new-hatched chicks, one of which is my long-awaited splash.

Oh, pictures, pictures.... pleeeeeeeeze?