ALABAMA!!

[lllory]

So many pictures and things I need advice on! Also pictures of B-mo and Lorraine, the chicks I got from hennyhandler. My sweet babies!
These are our mystery chicks we bought at the feed store on a whim because they desperately needed a nice clean home. All they knew was they were a brown laying bunch. The white one with spots is named LanceArmstrong, the red is harmony, and the grey with white head is little scrappy. Any insight very appreciated.




Here are some pictures of the finished coop! It's hodge podgey but we love it! Plan on adding ribbed metal to the outside. The peeps love it! I'm so excited!









ok and now....even more. B-Mo is the lighter blue silkie and Lorraine (or lawrence) is the darker blue. they are peeps we got from hennyhandler. love them! Any idea as to gender??

The last unidentified chick looks just like one I had with my hatch last August. It was a cuckoo marans. The white spot on the head is indicitave of male.

 

[lllory]

Hi! I had two girls go broody on me for April Fool's Day! I have mixed feelings about this. I love having chicks around, but just have a little backyard, and I'm already above my legal limit! And I have a hard time getting rid of roos, so have had to do it the *hard* way. Now I have to hope hubby does not get a job in AL anytime soon due to hatching. I have no roos, so ran out to the *country* for some hatching eggs. I got blue and lavender AM, and a couple olive eggers. Here is a pic of my broody girls taken yesterday. Sometimes they are in neighboring nest boxes, and sometimes they shared one! It didn't matter at that point, since I didn't have fertile eggs under them, but I hope they stay put in their separate boxes now. The big girl just had one egg under her earlier, and the little one had five when I made the switch last night.

Anyway, here they are both stuffed in one box. Do you think I got the stink eye?



Double Stink Eye, methinks.

 

[Stumpy]

lllory, I think that's the stink eye all right. I hope none of your chicks are roos!

 

[chickadoodles]

What is stink eye?

 

[DixieChicken78]

Silkiemomma, your chicks are precious and I love their house & run!

 

[chirpingcricket]

What is stink eye?

It's the look your bird gives you that says, DON'T TOUCH ME, DON'T LOOK AT ME, DON'T BREATHE ON ME, GO AWAY. A very unfriendly looking direct gaza! haha

By the way, welcome to all new members!

We live in Fairhope, AL.

 

[bamachicks8]

see he looks so happy and your coop looks great

 

[Wisher1000]

I have missed SO MANY new members or new posters on this thread!

PLEASE accept my sincerest apology for not greeting and welcoming each of you individually!

Welcome to BYC and the "Alabama!!" thread!

Okay, shameless plug time. I am hosting a Poltry Poetry Contest over on the "Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon" thread and it is shaping up to be a lot of fun. It is open to all BYC members and there are PRIZES! (sorta'

) Go on over and check it out! Try your hand at poetic prose (although, I like the limericks!)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ayo-turkey-hatchathon-all-poultry-welcome/440

 

[silkiemomma42]

So after some serious google detective work, I have decided what my mystery chicks are. The whites with the black spots are a breed called a terra tint across btw a RIR and a white leghorn. They only come from one hatchery (these were picked up at the local feed store mind you) after looking at the short list of other birds they offer and what those chicks look like, my black is a black star the white spot does mean male...so does anyone want him, and the Brown is a spotted Sussex. No gender cues on the tints and the Sussex yet, but free black star cockrel

 

[Tomtommom]

Just wrote you one, Wisher... Made it up on the spot.


My first flock

I dreamed and I longed to have chickens,
but never was the right time.
Hubby claimed they would smell like the dickens,
but fresh eggs would be sublime.

Then through Google I found BYC,
and I thought and searched and read.
There was so much to learn and see,
turns out there was no reason to fret.

Now we have our own little flock,
and they are quite a breeze to keep.
Let's just hope my black Jersey cock,
will allow the neighbors to sleep.