Welshies
Crowing
Well, in Alberta here it is a warm, beautiful day of -16°C. After 4 or 5 days of -30 to -45°C this is a welcome change!
Hauled my butt out to my chickens, gave them fresh bedding, time outside, and their daily water. They loved it!
Set up a chick brooder for my frostbitten chicks, who are surprisingly healing with almost no damage
My rooster is a mixed breed, year old boy named Ashley. He loves his four hens, two of whom are Barred Rocks, one of whom is a handicapped mixed breed, and the other who is a beautiful beetle-green broody mixed breed.
I've got 7 chicks, all mixed breeds. Looks like I so far have FIVE pullets!
I've got 2 coops. One built when I was not very wood-handy, and the other is a beautiful 6x8 coop I built this year. You can see both here, with my 450 square foot run area that attaches to both, and the shed. I am working on expanding this spring
The hay bale gives me a way to cover snow for my chickens, and the trough *used* to be for pigs, just haven't moved it yet
You can see my chicks have been healing well. If you've read my frozen legs thread, you'll know 5 chicks froze their legs so bad, they were like ice! Quick thinking saved them and they have barely any damage now, as I said. They are under a heat lamp to prevent it from happening again.
Aren't they cute?
Now to move in my new quail!
Hauled my butt out to my chickens, gave them fresh bedding, time outside, and their daily water. They loved it!
Set up a chick brooder for my frostbitten chicks, who are surprisingly healing with almost no damage
My rooster is a mixed breed, year old boy named Ashley. He loves his four hens, two of whom are Barred Rocks, one of whom is a handicapped mixed breed, and the other who is a beautiful beetle-green broody mixed breed.
I've got 7 chicks, all mixed breeds. Looks like I so far have FIVE pullets!
I've got 2 coops. One built when I was not very wood-handy, and the other is a beautiful 6x8 coop I built this year. You can see both here, with my 450 square foot run area that attaches to both, and the shed. I am working on expanding this spring
The hay bale gives me a way to cover snow for my chickens, and the trough *used* to be for pigs, just haven't moved it yet
You can see my chicks have been healing well. If you've read my frozen legs thread, you'll know 5 chicks froze their legs so bad, they were like ice! Quick thinking saved them and they have barely any damage now, as I said. They are under a heat lamp to prevent it from happening again.
Aren't they cute?Now to move in my new quail!
