Arizona Chickens

[Fuzzybird]

Fuzzy I have some french wheaten Marans I hatched from Bargain's eggs. 8 weeks old, I want to keep the lighter females. But she is welcome to a couple of the more buff colored pullets. The eggs they hatched from were pretty dark. I don't know the marans scale to give you the exact darkness, but will edit with a link to the auction I got them from. Send me a pm if babies work for her.

Here is the link: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/583941/12-wheaten-marans-hatching-eggs-great-lineage#post_7605949

I realize she would probably prefer POL pullets. But the babies are here if she is interested.

I think she just might be! Denise works in Wickenberg. I will tell her right away. My husband and I live with her. would these chicks get along with my poor Shamrock that is all alone?

 

[AZBootsie]

don't we all...

I loved this!!


Hey Mahonri is SW a silver wheaten?? Would love to see pics when that one hatches!!

 

[kevs-chickadees]

26!

You won!

 

[Arpey]

Hi, I posted awhile back asking for advice about a coop. Well--It's done now and I have chicks! I got 5 silkie babies from a local breeder. They are ridiculously cute and very sneaky--They are showed me several ways my run isn't chick proof when I let them out to play this afternoon.

 

[AZBootsie]

Here you go Fuzzy: I put a soda can in the pictures, so you can see how much bigger than Shamrock they are. It is kinda hard to see in these pictures, but some of the pullets are a bit darker with some black ticking at the feather ends. From what I am learning on the Wheaten Marans thread, that is not desirable. The real dark ones are the Cockerels. If she is interested in a roo, a couple of them need homes also.





They are at that gangly teen age stage.....8 weeks old. Hopefully they will grow up prettier!!

 

[AZBootsie]

Hi, I posted awhile back asking for advice about a coop. Well--It's done now and I have chicks! I got 5 silkie babies from a local breeder. They are ridiculously cute and very sneaky--They are showed me several ways my run isn't chick proof when I let them out to play this afternoon.

Very cute!!

Congratulations on the coop. Any pics of it??

 

[Mahonri]

Bootsie! Your Wheaten Marans are GORGEOUS! Nancy really has great stock!

 

[AZBootsie]

Bootsie! Your Wheaten Marans are GORGEOUS! Nancy really has great stock!

I love the way she ships. She sent me 12 eggs. I dropped one, so only set 11. 10 hatched!! Really a fantastic person to buy eggs from.

 

[Mikey D]

This is for The other Mary and any other interested parties....
Picks of my New Years Day Hatch 2012 chicks.

First up the only two surviving Swedish Flower Hen chicks. I'm guessing female on the left, male on the right.




Next up, group shot at the feeder. Lots of blacks, whites and chipmunks.

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This brownish-black Icelandic is a tad weird, it hardly has any feathers and the ones that it does have are WEIRD!



Next, an Icelandic with white on it's wings... I'm guessing ROO!

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Next, the SFH.. ?Male?... notice the orange and white feathers coming in?



Next the only pure bred wheaten Ameraucana from my coop prior to roo loss.. I'm guessing pullet.



One of 7 chipmunk Icelandics


The blue and white one on the left is named "29"... as it was the last chick out...saved by my little girl because I was about to toss the egg and she said she heard a peep in the egg. I pipped it and it was out not long after that. It's mama is a big FBCM and the daddy was Fred, the Splash Wheaten roo. Should be a pretty Olive Egger but it's looking rooish to me.


And the Lavender Ameraucana from bargain's eggs. All but two of the eggs she sent went into Meg's bator and they all got fried. The two I kept hatched, one a purebred Lavender and the other a black EE. I'm guessing the Lavender is a roo. Should a get him decrowed and start a Lavender Wheaten project?


There you go. Off to candle the 36 eggs in my bator for the Ground Hog's Day Hatch.

Most excellent!

 

[Mikey D]

I have qouted my own post for I have something to add.
Chick was doing fine. Eating and pooping and drinking. He was strong and I thought ready to go back to mother hen Cotton. Well last night, at dark, I put him to bed under her wings. This morning when I woke up I knowtest it was a dark morning, DANG. I rushed out to check on the chicks and Cottons other three was under her wings as she stroled aroung the chicken yard but poor Shamrock was lieing unconcious by the food dish. Ohhh, I cried! I got him in my hands and started to blow on him. When I started to feel some life I got him under the heat and my golly he came back again! I think I may have to name him Nazerous!
This most be a roo. What other bird could come back from the almost dead twice! I am his mother for sure. I may have a house chicken! He sure hates to be left alone. He chirps and chirps for me. He loves playing with my ears and lips and fingers.
So this little fuzzybutts story has not ended yet.

Wow! Caught him twice now. And the saga continues...

In tomorrow's episode; Nazerous brought back from inside a cats intestine! Reports a rough trip but very warm!