Tiffany295
Chirping
- Aug 2, 2022
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Hello! I’m new to backyard chicken. My husband and I live in South Carolina. Our first batch of 4 heritage birds turned out to all be roosters, so we had to rehome them. Now, We have an adult white Americauna hen and adult White Face Spanish hen. We have 10 week old Light Brahma (not sure on her
gender) and a Black Copper Maran rooster.
We just lost our 10 week old beautiful, sweet splash Orpington hen over the weekend. We had them all sleeping together at night in our Omlet Eglu Cube for a couple weeks, and I found her dead in the morning on Saturday.
thankfully, there was no blood coming out, so we guessed that there was a predator around, and they got scared and accidentally trampled her. Any thoughts? I hope to get a couple more splash Orpingtons soon. She was so lovely. Our first Orpington rooster was a sweetie too.
We also just got a couple 8 week Copper Maran hens (one black sex link, one blue). They are minuscule in comparison to our black copper Maran roo. He’s only 10 weeks, but he’s literally 3x the 8 week Marans sizes. I keep telling them to eat more! Lol. Our goal is to have heritage chicken breeds with a variety of colored eggs.
We’ve got an amazing Jack Russel Terrier name Jane who is 8, and she seems to be fine with our birds now that we’ve trained her. She used to want to eat them as tiny chicks, but I made her learn to submit to them, and she’s good with them now. She’ll sit and people watch right next to the older hens while they have a dust bath. Our roo was hesitating being caught and flew hard into her side. She didn’t fight back or even think about retaliating. I’ve left her alone with the bigger birds for a couple minutes while I run in the house, and she’s only been concerned about staying at my side, not really taking an interest in the birds. We wanted a proper chicken dog, but so far she’s doing great at keeping the owls and hawks away when the birds free range.
Here are a few images of my Brahma. Think Mulan-Pria is a hen or a roo?
Thanks for reading my mini essay.
gender) and a Black Copper Maran rooster.We just lost our 10 week old beautiful, sweet splash Orpington hen over the weekend. We had them all sleeping together at night in our Omlet Eglu Cube for a couple weeks, and I found her dead in the morning on Saturday.
thankfully, there was no blood coming out, so we guessed that there was a predator around, and they got scared and accidentally trampled her. Any thoughts? I hope to get a couple more splash Orpingtons soon. She was so lovely. Our first Orpington rooster was a sweetie too. We also just got a couple 8 week Copper Maran hens (one black sex link, one blue). They are minuscule in comparison to our black copper Maran roo. He’s only 10 weeks, but he’s literally 3x the 8 week Marans sizes. I keep telling them to eat more! Lol. Our goal is to have heritage chicken breeds with a variety of colored eggs.
We’ve got an amazing Jack Russel Terrier name Jane who is 8, and she seems to be fine with our birds now that we’ve trained her. She used to want to eat them as tiny chicks, but I made her learn to submit to them, and she’s good with them now. She’ll sit and people watch right next to the older hens while they have a dust bath. Our roo was hesitating being caught and flew hard into her side. She didn’t fight back or even think about retaliating. I’ve left her alone with the bigger birds for a couple minutes while I run in the house, and she’s only been concerned about staying at my side, not really taking an interest in the birds. We wanted a proper chicken dog, but so far she’s doing great at keeping the owls and hawks away when the birds free range.
Here are a few images of my Brahma. Think Mulan-Pria is a hen or a roo?
Thanks for reading my mini essay.
and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.
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