So I go to close up the coop for the night and as always I stick my head in to make sure all the birds are accounted for. Panic ensued as I counted 3 fewer than normal!!!! Then I saw this:
Panic averted! Pictured starting from the left are Sesame (Amerucana), Ginger (Prod Red) and Curry (Buff Brahma Bantam). I swear they do the craziest things!
In other news I have a hen one her last leg, literally! She is still eating and drinking, but she has lost significant muscle mass. All I can fee is bones in her chest. Her breast muscle is all but gone. My vet neighbor is coming over tomorrow night to put her down. I just can't bring myself to wring the birds neck. Such is the life of a chicken owner.
Finally, chick math has kicked in again. I went to the Orschlen's in Basehor this afternoon. I must say I am really impressed! BIG store. They had a nice selection of chicks and an employee there named Amy was awesome in her chicken knowledge! I must say I will go back in the coming years. Heck it is even 6 or 7 miles closer than the Lawrence store. Anyways, back to the math. I picked an Australorp, DD pick a light tan Amerucana and DS pick a black and brown Amerucana. Spicy names are inbound as well as pictures.
Have a good night all!
Pikeman - Nice pic of your chickens there. I was just coming into the thread to take a quick glance before heading back to work. Pictures are a lot easier to see and understand than reading words. LOL.
Pikeman, I love your pic of the hens, that's really cute. I hope you're doing better with your health, I meant to respond to your earlier post & got busy & forgot. It does sound like chicken math struck you again, congrats on the new chickies.
bbsnooks, congrats on your new chicks also, post some pics when you get a chance after you get them all settled in.
Well we were busy yesterday, we went to Lowe's & got all the wood for the 2nd hoop coop & came home & got started on it. We got all the panels hooked on & got the frame all screwed on, but ran out of daylight. I'm hoping to be able to work on it again tomorrow to get some supports put in. I'm glad to be working on it at least & making progress. We're building it right next to the other one, so that will be convenient to get to it. The guineas were checking it out today to see what we were putting there.
I let all 3 of the little pullets that were in the small grow-out pen in the run out to run around & range with the rest of my laying flock & they're doing great. They're even learning about going into the coop at night, so I'm really pleased about that. My flock is doing great & they're really happy to have green grass & things to eat outside now. In fact they have really cut back on the feed they're eating due to finding more to eat out there. I put the 3 little blue blaced Barnevelders in the pen where the other pullets had been & they're doing well. I got some pics of them I'll post. I don't think you can really tell the blue lacing that well yet, they're pretty young still. I'm sure it will get more pronounced as they grow.
Finally here are the Barnevelder chicks:
They're kind of shy, so they ran to the other end of the pen when I tried to take their pic at first. You can see the rooster is the one in the middle, that's pretty apparent even at 6 weeks.
Here you can kind of see the lacing a little better.
Trish - Really love the pics of your birds. They look awesome.
Gotta pop in to say a quick hi to everyone
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Have a great day everyone!
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