Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[satay]

Howdy folks Just back tracking to some posts I missed when I jumped on the FF-wagon; sometimes it is better to reply while a topic is hot and not hours or days later Sidhe13 sounds like you made excellent progress with the roosting lessons, not bad numbers at all. appps lols at the bedtime bickering; happens every night here. Deej211 I am so sorry to read about your little one; it is a very good thing that the highs of owning chickens far out weighs the lows. It would be wonderful if we could have no lows. I hope you have a turn of luck for the better also. ChristieB sleeping chookens is always cute; regardless of the bad lighting; they look so content. Congrats on the new additions; very nice! Lol at Hermione the sticky beak; they do not let anything go unnoticed. I reckon buying chooks to break the drought definitely counts; I hatched them to break the drought and still have money on the bubs laying an egg before some of the other slackers in the flock K Spot your Casanova tale gave me a good chuckle, thank you. Woot woot Steampunked congrats on the drought break and from a rooster also . See, did I not say it was possible .. lol. Now to keep an eye on the cats that eat layer feed Anniebee I agree on throwing out the medicated chick start. I had some left over from the last hatch but tossed it and started off with a new bag for this hatch. Wow cwrite that is one exciting day that I would not like to have here. Kudos to you for rescuing the dogs and caring enough to find them somewhere to stay. I have done similar on a couple of occasions but kept the dogs on a lead, out the front, well away from my cats and chickens and was lucky enough to find the owners quickly because both times the dogs were wearing tags with phone numbers. News from Bambrook Bantams: OK, ho hum, yawn, been there, done that but please indulge me for a moment as I am so very excited and want to share. After much patience and weeks of planning, may I introduce all of BB’s flock in one picture(s). Granted, it is only on free range and the coops are still divided and will be for a couple more weeks but today I got to throw open both doors and let everyone out together. No fights, no pecking, no bickering and I even got to sweep and do other stuff as opposed to watching their every move .. I am sooo happy! Remember how I mentioned that I have never clipped wings and my fly-like-rocks bantams have never attempted to leave home? You can see how low the fence is in this photo:

So glad everything is going well teila. Looking at your pictures your black and buff pekins mine and yours are identical to look at. My frizzle is slightly lighter.

 

[spicychicken42]

Thank you guys! At least we got 3 out of 7 chicks pullets

 

[Deej211]

Howdy folks Thank you. I have more in the bator now. Will start hand turning at day 7 this time. Fingers crossed!! Just back tracking to some posts I missed when I jumped on the FF-wagon; sometimes it is better to reply while a topic is hot and not hours or days later Sidhe13 sounds like you made excellent progress with the roosting lessons, not bad numbers at all. appps lols at the bedtime bickering; happens every night here. Deej211 I am so sorry to read about your little one; it is a very good thing that the highs of owning chickens far out weighs the lows. It would be wonderful if we could have no lows. I hope you have a turn of luck for the better also. ChristieB sleeping chookens is always cute; regardless of the bad lighting; they look so content. Congrats on the new additions; very nice! Lol at Hermione the sticky beak; they do not let anything go unnoticed. I reckon buying chooks to break the drought definitely counts; I hatched them to break the drought and still have money on the bubs laying an egg before some of the other slackers in the flock K Spot your Casanova tale gave me a good chuckle, thank you. Woot woot Steampunked congrats on the drought break and from a rooster also . See, did I not say it was possible .. lol. Now to keep an eye on the cats that eat layer feed Anniebee I agree on throwing out the medicated chick start. I had some left over from the last hatch but tossed it and started off with a new bag for this hatch. Wow cwrite that is one exciting day that I would not like to have here. Kudos to you for rescuing the dogs and caring enough to find them somewhere to stay. I have done similar on a couple of occasions but kept the dogs on a lead, out the front, well away from my cats and chickens and was lucky enough to find the owners quickly because both times the dogs were wearing tags with phone numbers. News from Bambrook Bantams: OK, ho hum, yawn, been there, done that but please indulge me for a moment as I am so very excited and want to share. After much patience and weeks of planning, may I introduce all of BB’s flock in one picture(s). Granted, it is only on free range and the coops are still divided and will be for a couple more weeks but today I got to throw open both doors and let everyone out together. No fights, no pecking, no bickering and I even got to sweep and do other stuff as opposed to watching their every move .. I am sooo happy! Remember how I mentioned that I have never clipped wings and my fly-like-rocks bantams have never attempted to leave home? You can see how low the fence is in this photo:

 

[cwrite]

Well for the first time in the 8 months since I got those 6 little chicks that were roosters I have an egg! And as predicted it was one of the newbies, as yet unnamed but I'm pretty sure it was the scruffy one. It's been years since I've had a laying hen so this is exciting!

Congrats Christie - that's so exciting!

Austrolorp or austrolorp cross would be my guess.

Seconding that & that it's a pullet. : )

@cwrite i just hope they dont live close by when their owners claim them and think visiting your backyard and chooks is the new way to spend their days when their owners are out!

Their owners never bothered to claim them. The guy who runs the FB group picked them up, took them to the vet & dropped them off at their home - 3 doors down from where I live.

He then popped over to tell me that the dogs were fine & back with their owners.

 

[sjturner79]

Okay help plz. I have 2 silkies and 2 ISA brown adults. We have had chicks that my niece's child care hatched. 6 are ISA browns with unfortunately 4 are roosters. And the problem is the mystery black chick. I do not know its breed nor gender. I am just hoping it is a hen. Pictures in order as follows. 1. Peekok (silkie) 2. Princess (silkie) 3. Fillet (ISA) 4. Nuggets (ISA) 5. Group of the chicks 6. Group of chicks again 7. Mystery Black chick 8. Mystery black chick again.

. Mystery black chick looks exactly like our astralorps did when they were pullets.

 

[chooks01]

Got five eggs today

my ISA brown seems to lay ginormous eggs usually a double yolker. Still wondering when I will see an egg from my araucana and partridge silkie

 

[MagicPidge]

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Mystery black chick looks exactly like our astralorps did when they were pullets.

My Australorps all had black eyes. My Barter Black (Australorp x RIR) had red eyes though. Perhaps she's some kind of cross?

link: a video of a Barter Black for reference

 

[satay]

Got five eggs today

my ISA brown seems to lay ginormous eggs usually a double yolker. Still wondering when I will see an egg from my araucana and partridge silkie

e Congrats on the eggs. Glad someone one here is getting some nice eggs. I am just about at the point I will have to buy eggs Haven't had to buy eggs in 8 years I'm holding out for another week to see if anyone starts up again.

 

[MagicPidge]

X2, lovely range of colours as well. How exciting!

 

[chooks01]

e Congrats on the eggs. Glad someone one here is getting some nice eggs. I am just about at the point I will have to buy eggs Haven't had to buy eggs in 8 years I'm holding out for another week to see if anyone starts up again.

Cheers

I hope yours start laying soon my pullets have all started laying so I'm making some frozen themed chocolate cupcake as requested by my girls

candles my marans egg in the Bator last night one egg was an early quitter the rest I will have to really looked at Friday before lockdown