Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

Jem, it looked exactly like the kind of plastic we install here under the outer roof material.

 

[Amberjem]

Snapped some pictures in the coop. The chicks seem to be afraid of the camera though.

Most of the flock:


Two of the cockerels:


Wilma's hedgehog phase is getting worse.


Bad and blurry pics of the chicks:




The wings are mostly black, with some very dark brown in there, and some have some white too. So they will probably be getting very dark Speckled Sussex coloring, with some extra black in there.

too cute!

 

[BriardChickens]

@Amberjem how much land do you have? So much garden!

 

[Amberjem]

sumtin like 3/4 of an acre or something

 

[BriardChickens]

That's it! You really know how to work it!

 

[Amberjem]

 

[minihorse927]

love it.

 

[BriardChickens]

You know that garage would make an awesome chicken coop!!

 

[bamadude]

Lmbo

 

[Alaskan]

No Cayuga ducklings this week... the lady had all die during the hatch.

still waiting on word that my ancona eggs get shipped this morning but it's only 9:30am.

that sucks!

(but it does make me feel better that other breeders are equally incompetent)


Talking of.... update:

my shipped egg leghorn hatch:

first, the wry neck chick... I found a vitamin E liquid capsule thing that I had (but it had no selenium which is supposedly needed to help absorb vitamin E), and I cut it open, and forced the chick to drink some, twice last night before I went to bed. It could walk and drink on its own, but the neck was still way bent to the side.

This morning the chick looks perfect... you can't tell anything odd about the neck at all!!!! I am thinking I will give it two more doses of the Vitamin E pill today, and then call it good, and we shall all pretend that the issue was NOT genetic.

So, grand total of alive chicks: (SC = single comb, RC = rose comb)

2 SC white
2 RC white (one of those was/is the wry neck)

4 SC brown
4 RC brown

2 SC black

1 SC Exchequer, but it might grown up to look more "penguin" than spotted, and he has a nasty big belly button scab... so he looks OK, but I won't be surprised if he suddenly dies

2 SC Exchequer, one just hatched, not yet fluffed and "I will clearly live" and one still in egg, one large pip, not unzipped.


What is interesting... is I popped open the rest of the eggs... and there were:

4 that died after pip FOR NO CLEAR REASON! (1 black and 3 yellow)
2 died before pip FOR NO CLEAR REASON (both yellow)
1 hatched with yolk outside (I know some people save those, but

we chopped its head right off) - yellow
1 dead at pip, hit a blood vessel, so pretty bloody. (yellow)

I didn't check combs on those, but that is 6 that were yellow... no more brown... makes me think that most of the clears were from the RC brown pen.