Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

[BonnieBlue]

That little beak reminds me of candy corn. lol

 

[Sefirothe]

That little beak reminds me of candy corn. lol
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I cant unsee that now!!

 

[BonnieBlue]

I cant unsee that now!!

It's right there! I took one look and started laughing.

 

[Sefirothe]

The escape hatch has been opened. They very quickly learned that the world outside the brooder walls has three very scary giants inhabiting it. Exploring is going....cautiously.

 

[Sefirothe]

Had to do a bit of re-arranging. Fiona has a REALLY long neck apparently.

 

[Sefirothe]

Gimpy is getting around so good, I can’t tell her apart from Eleven on camera or even in person at this point since I took leg bands off.

I think that’s her looking like an emu bottom right. But it could be Eleven also. They are both clean legged mostly black chicks so….

 

[Sefirothe]

Or maybe this is Gimpy….perching precariously on the edge of the brooder plate. Those look like her little pink toes.

But wait, Eleven had pink toes too. Maybe I should have left leg bands on!!

 

[FlockVillemaire]

They are all getting quite big and feathering up nicely. Except the chocolate orp Coffee Bean. She seems a little slower to feather than the others. I think orps mature slower tho?

I got two Light Brahma day-olds from a high quality local feed store last year. (Can't remember their hatchery) One feathered at a normal rate, the other had some sort of slow feathering mutation and was drastically slower & patchier, but she did catch up months later! I guess that particular feathering mutation? allele? can somehow be used in some sort of sex-linked breeding projects, I think I read somewhere. Different breeds generally have their specific feathering rate, so I was surprised to see that extreme difference in just one breed. Roxy, with the very slow feathering is much smaller full grown than Maxy with the fast feathering, but they probably also have completely different parents.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

The no roosters here is probably the only thing stopping me from getting an incubator at this point!

But even if you are allowed roosters where you live, if you hatch, incubator or broody hen, about half of them will be cockerels! If you don't have the stomach to cull your own, you will soon be in big trouble without a way to offload the extras. They'll soon to be deadly to eachother & overbreeding on your hens. In just 2 broods I got 7-too-many little "guys" right now, I think one crowed already, to gift away? Mostly sex-linked with my barred/cuckoo ladies (BPR,CM,COE) & Heritage BCM from Alchemist Farms.

 

[Beau plus penny]

it appears i have been seduced by chicken math we started 2025 with 24 lost 10 in july now we have 14 left now ive gotten myself added to a preorders for 4 mottled cochins and 3 blue brahmas plus i have a bym egg incubating rn and now im looking at some silkied cochins