Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

Congratulations CFC on your beautiful new babies!

We woke up to find our first two broody hatched babies this morning...both girls! One ducked back under, but here's one! (btw I dusted Lucy last night since the rain has brought so many bugs around)



I hope there are more later!
update!!! I saw a boy with a big white spot and what looks to be lots of light gray, but I'll try to confirm! I hope he is one of Cider's.

 

[ChicKat]

Chickat, I know some folks set up misters for their birds when the weather is extremely hot - you could run the hose off a timer for it to come on during the hot part of the day. If you do a search, there are several threads that tell you how.

Yep--also been there, done that. I did get a mister set and tried it last year....and I do use a sprinkler on a timer..... One thing, their run shades are absorbent material so when they are wet, there is evaporative cooling, and having the ground wet helps too. But it doesn't take too long before it is a messy mud hole...where they are. I did say in my BYC blog..that chicken keeping just shouldn't be this hard.

This will give me peace of mind while I'm gone....they will just have to get over it:



It really is a burden off my mind -- I can feel the difference!

 

[ChicKat]

Congratulations CFC on your beautiful new babies!

We woke up to find our first two broody hatched babies this morning...both girls! One ducked back under, but here's one! (btw I dusted Lucy last night since the rain has brought so many bugs around)



I hope there are more later!
update!!! I saw a boy with a big white spot and what looks to be lots of light gray, but I'll try to confirm! I hope he is one of Cider's.

So cute!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very pretty chick.... pepper us with pictures please.

LOL at Lucy. I keep lots of DE in my dust bath and one day Robin looked like a ghost and freaked me out -- no more yellow legs, no more salmon breast -- etc. Then it hit me she had just been in the ashes + sand + DE dusting bath and she was dusty!

 

[cleansquared]

Ive heard of people hosing down the run ground or sand and the chickens digging down it it to stay cool mine kind of do that i dump their water every day and put down new in the pans they always dig where i had poured the water that morning. Ive also heard of wraping ice packs in a towl for them to sit on or stand on

 

[sol2go]

Yep--also been there, done that. I did get a mister set and tried it last year....and I do use a sprinkler on a timer..... One thing, their run shades are absorbent material so when they are wet, there is evaporative cooling, and having the ground wet helps too. But it doesn't take too long before it is a messy mud hole...where they are. I did say in my BYC blog..that chicken keeping just shouldn't be this hard. This will give me peace of mind while I'm gone....they will just have to get over it: It really is a burden off my mind -- I can feel the difference!

It looks like you have a good fix for a select group.

 

[ChicKat]

It looks like you have a good fix for a select group.

Thanks.
So glad I did it -- one of the thermometers says 111-degrees out there now.

 

[Rancher3535]

Hard to tell with out seeing individual pictures...but my guess would be...

Back bird looks like it is a Barred Rock.
Middle bird could be a Delaware, Columbian Rock, or Columbian Wyandotte if it has a rose comb.
Front bird could be White Rock, White Leghorn and or a couple others that are white.

I am thinking they are probably hatchery stock?

 

[blackbirds13]

I would like to thank BlackBirds 13 for sending me hatching eggs and I hatched out six pullets!! Now to find cream males

Thank you very much Maria... and thank you to Curtis for the lead!!! A great experience all around and I appreciate it.


The two on the far left are partridge cochins belonging to a friend.

That's Fab!

 

[1muttsfan]

111 -

We are having a very odd summer, it was 53 degrees this am and we have struggled to get into the 70's each day. Seems like fall is here already, after a long cold spring, then 2 weeks of high 80's, now back to fall temps.

 

[wlhtx]

I'm excited. Went out at dawn this morning and noticed for the first time that my one CL girl is starting to get a little bit pink in the face and her comb is starting to pop up a bit! She's only about 17 weeks old, so I'm not expecting anything anytime soon - but exciting nonetheless!!!

The lighting was really bad since the sun wasn't all the way up yet: