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[backyardcelia]

I got them from mypetchicken.com. I know it was crazy to try a winter hatch, but they were available and I figured I'd give it a shot. Two out of seven hatched. They are so sweet! I'm really hoping that they're pullets.

oh my gosh, they are cute!!! please chart their progress on BYC they really are little chipmunks!!! i especially love though, the two headed chicken on paisley picture!

ps when you say two out of seven, how soon did you know?

 

[LilacSpring]

How adorable! I got my chicks from My Pet Chicken last April. They are now all paying their way giving eggs. I have 4 Buff Orpingtons.

They grow so fast. I think I want more!!!!

 

[celticgarden]

That's wonderful, 2 chicks! And they do look like chipmunks....Hatching could easily be addictive. I think I got my fill this winter. 9 chicks hanging in their own corner of the coop. Some will have to go.

 

[Adenium]

Fuzzy wunkles - how is the egg size from your Buffs? I got one Barred Rock and one BO from MPC last June. The buff is the biggest but her eggs are much smaller than the rock's. Sometimes the silkies lay one nearly as big as the buff's! Wondering if they'll get closer to commercial egg size as she gets older or if she's just a petite layer.

 

[celticgarden]

Anyone want a 4 month old rooster? Buff Orpington, quite lovely. Got him last August as a chick from My Pet Chicken (so a hatchery guy). He was supposed to be a she. It happens.

I'm in Waterford, CT. Want him to go to a home where he will be well cared for (of course) so I may ask a few questions to any interested. Here's a photo, taken 3-4 weeks ago. I enter their pen just fine, he hasn't been made a lap chicken but regards me with mild interest (as in where's my treat?).

PM me if you are interested, thanks

 

[LilacSpring]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, I do not get here very often anymore.

The smallest egg is about a medium size egg, and that comes from my Buff that started laying at 19 weeks old. The next two one of which started laying at 20 weeks, and one that started at 25 weeks are large, and my hold out that started at 34 weeks old is between a large and an X large. .

Fuzzy wunkles - how is the egg size from your Buffs? I got one Barred Rock and one BO from MPC last June. The buff is the biggest but her eggs are much smaller than the rock's. Sometimes the silkies lay one nearly as big as the buff's! Wondering if they'll get closer to commercial egg size as she gets older or if she's just a petite layer.

 

[pmessner]

Hello Litchfield Hills... I'm in Sandy Hook... are you looking for any more chickens? I'm asking because I am downsizing my flock and have three really nice partridge rock hens that just started laying last fall... I just have too many and need to downsize. I am going to post them on Craigslist for $15 ea and they will go quickly. Here is a pic of one from today... couldn't get them all together without everyone else crowding in... I have a mixed flock of barneveldors, marans and these guys...

 

[new chick 203]

how is everyone doing in this deep freeze? Keeping water free of ice and everyone snug? I added an extra bulb to our coop this morning and it seems to help, but I do worry about them.

 

[pmessner]

BRRR... COLD isn't it. I do not have any heat source in the hen house... they seem to do all right thru the winter on their own... even last year when it was a lot colder. I do clean out the soiled hay every Sunday and supply clean fresh new. I think its key that they have dry conditions to keep healthy in the cold. I'm even getting a steady flow of eggs this winter. And of course I chose hardier breeds.

 

[celticgarden]

I added a red heat light bulb, 250 watts so the chick waterer won' t freeze. Seems like winds will be gusting today with wind chills at neg 10, wondering if I should keep the hens locked in their coop today. They were perched outside on their bales of hay that I put in their run before this cold snap. They seemed fine. The chicks are doing well. 6 of them were hatched end of November, 3 mid December. They are tucked in their own corner of the coop.