Chick ID **Update**

[Lanissa86]

She is pretty! Definitely has some RIR in her. If she has a small muff or beard, I think you are on the right track! Wow, he color is beautiful!

 

[lovinthechickens]

Wow! shes AMAZING! absolutely beautiful! im going to steal her :]

she will be gone when you least expect it :3

 

[65browneyes]

Thanks! I really love this girl!

lovin.......I'm thinking maybe I'd ought to put a padlock on their gate, eh??

 

[lovinthechickens]

haha, i would if i was you

 

[Shogun99]

Chickenmama,

I mean no offense....but the one on top is an ugly mug, but if she's a good layer and healing up after her bout after bout with the male roo...then she'll look good eventually and hopefully. The one on the bottom looks like a very pretty hen.

Ryan

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

When a bird has been in a stressfull environment they always look bad. There is a lot of satisfaction in taking those birds who have not been cared for properly and giving them time to heal, good food and clean living and watching them turn into beauties. I reccomend isolation just to be sure...but you'd be stunned at the beautiful birds that can emerge from the isolation pens around here. A few months ago someone dropped off a rat...three weeks later I had a silkie that lays 6eggs/wk.

 

[65browneyes]

Not to worry, Shelly's been with me for coming up on 6 months now. She was isolated for a few weeks when I first brought her home, and has been in with flock for the rest of the time. She has remained a bare back, but is now beginning to grow them in very nicely.

When I first got chickens, I had one hen who was attacked by the others. I put her in the flock "ER" and she healed up nicely. She also grew all her feathers back in.

Hmmm.......worked for her, it'll work for Granny Chicken, too, right?? WRONG! LOL Poor ole Granny is bare back more than feathered! Pitiful little bitty!

I think Shelly's beautiful, then again beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, isn't it? LOL! She's a very nice hen who produced a gorgeous pullet for me, and continues to lay more frequently than the others do.

 

[65browneyes]

Posting an update here.

Back just before Thanksgiving, we took in "Pity-Pat", the most pitiul, pathetic looking little banty known to man. She hardly has any feathers and is terrified of humans.

Shortly after Pity-Pat moved in with the main flock, we started getting a nice olive-green egg. I didn't know where it had come from, so assumed though it's size was a little big for Pity, must be hers, right?

After a couple weeks of getting 4 to 6 of these eggs weekly, I started to suspect it was actually Snickers, but could never prove it........until today. I caught her in the act. I'm SO excited about this!

Here's the pic, but the colors don't show up right. The olive egg is on the top left, with the egg Snicker's mom, Shelly laid beside it. They're in the great rooster basket I found at a second-hand store a few weeks back. The comb was broken when I got it, but I love it still.