Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[lilypad]

We're clearing 105 degrees Fahrenheit here, so most of my chickens are pretty much heat proof. Except the Brahmas because they were too cute to pass up on as chicks. Now, they just dust bathe beneath the oak trees. I think, though, that when the "winter" comes around (it only gets to be about 75-80 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter around here, haha), most of them will enjoy the weather even more. It's been raining buckets lately, and all they've been doing is getting soaked while searching for bugs, haha!

She's gotta be one of the cutest hens ever, though. Maybe one day I can get one like her, but until then, I'll enjoy my little mutts, heehee!

Your winter are our summers LOL!
I think Spring and Summer is the girls favourite time of year, Autumn and Winter are just too wet and windy, they don't seem to like that.

I only have two mutts at the moment, Millie and my Cream Legbar X, Isabel who is such a big hen. I adore them both, they're no different than my purebreeds

 

[LBejaran]

Your winter are our summers LOL!
I think Spring and Summer is the girls favourite time of year, Autumn and Winter are just too wet and windy, they don't seem to like that. 

I only have two mutts at the moment, Millie and my Cream Legbar X, Isabel who is such a big hen. I adore them both, they're no different than my purebreeds 

Our winters are famous, haha! The flock loves the food, too, 'cause they get all the sweet potatoes they can eat, Heehee!

 

[lilypad]

Our winters are famous, haha! The flock loves the food, too, 'cause they get all the sweet potatoes they can eat, Heehee!

I could not survive in that heat, I find our summers hot enough LOL.
I've never given my girls sweet potato, will definitely try some this winter

 

[LBejaran]

I could not survive in that heat, I find our summers hot enough LOL.
I've never given my girls sweet potato, will definitely try some this winter

I'd add some good spices to it, just to encourage them. Some cayenne pepper and cinnamon has always been a hit...and it keeps my dogs from trying to get some too.

 

[lilypad]

I'd add some good spices to it, just to encourage them. Some cayenne pepper and cinnamon has always been a hit...and it keeps my dogs from trying to get some too.

Ohh thanks! I will give it a try, I usually just have mine plain with Sunday dinner though so will try a little plain first and see what they think

 

[Chickens R Us]

just some pics of my mutts
This is Purdy she is a BOxBR

This Stew he is BOxRSL

This is Dumpling he is a Cuckoo Maran X

This is CooCoo she is a Cuckoo Maran X

This is Precious he is a BOxBR

This is Soup he is a BOxRSL
I hatched the BO crosses myself this past spring. The Maran crosses I was dupped by a lady on craigs list, she said they were pure bred.

 

[chickenlover235]

This is my Ameraucana/Aracana mix I have a pic of her sis on my page

 

[ChickNmamma]

just some pics of my mutts
This is Purdy she is a BOxBR

This Stew he is BOxRSL

This is Dumpling he is a Cuckoo Maran X

This is CooCoo she is a Cuckoo Maran X

This is Precious he is a BOxBR

This is Soup he is a BOxRSL
I hatched the BO crosses myself this past spring. The Maran crosses I was dupped by a lady on craigs list, she said they were pure bred.

I like your names for the boys.. I think possibly Precious is safe? Unless his name gets changed to Precocious, most of our "Barred Rock" boys were not nice.

 

[Chickens R Us]

I like your names for the boys.. I think possibly Precious is safe? Unless his name gets changed to Precocious, most of our "Barred Rock" boys were not nice.

I probably won't keep him but he's so pretty. The father( Buff Orpington) of the chicks I hatched is some what of a meanie he will be going this fall, but I think it's my fault I tried to make a pet out of him and he lost his respect/fear of people. My new roosters I walk right past them and they get out of my way it's much nicer that way I don't have to watch my back.

 

[carrieb62]

These are my tried & true mutts!!! The rooster (left) is named Pitiful, he was the egg I almost threw away but it peeped deal! The hen had basically abandoned the egg so I figured something was wrong it and I almost threw it out. He was so tiny and frail when he came out and he lived in the incubator for 10 days because the heat lamp just wasn't sufficient for him. He would squeak his little heart out, and when he went quiet for too long I would holler in a high voice "Pitiful" and he would start sqeakin' again! He's a mix of Silkie, Cochin, and small bantam variety. As he grew, I looked into his eyes one day and realized who his mother was, a hen named Loretta (because she was born in a coal bucket!) who I had to have put down (just the day before I almost threw out the egg!) because of heat stroke. She was my favorite hen and bawled my eyes out over her! When I realized this about him - I had to make another pen! LOL Every morning when I let him out of the coop he dances around my feet like I'm his hen

His "other hen" LOL, (right) her name is Skipper because when she was a baby she looked like a penguin - black with a white chest. She's got Silkie in her too (5 toes) and I think her mama was the small Speckled Sussex bantam I had (died in the dog attack I had in June). She's a lot more shy, but very still very sweet!