LadyMyrtle
In the Brooder
- Aug 15, 2023
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Hello fellow chicken peepers!
I am new to BYC but not to chickens
finally made myself an account get some help with our youngest birds that hatched 8w ago.
We are UK based. 3 hens, 1 roo and 3 bebes (I think are all pullets so
on that!) and we generally lean towards bantams or breeds that are on the smaller side. We also have an elderly rabbit and an elderly cat, the former is in great health but the latter less so. All our pets are (and have been for years) black & white, or black, or white, or grey... (Greyscale? Monochrome?)
Our eldest hen is 7½ - a silver laced wyandotte bantam called Hattie. She was one of the first batch of eggs we hatched out, and we've been through a lot together.
We had a flock of 6, and then a fox got into the coop in Aug 2020, taking out the 4 smaller hens (pekins and bantam araucanas) and leaving us with just Hattie and Mary (a marans bantam). They both needed nursing back to health as they were covered in injuries but they healed up remarkably. Mary sadly died last summer (I think of old age) right as Hattie went broody, so now there is a big age gap between her and the younger flock members! She's definitely the matriarch.
My username is after Hattie's sister who was one of my favourite hens. She sadly passed aged 3 as she became egg bound (she always had problems laying right from the start). That's her in my pfp, sitting on some bantam araucana eggs back in 2018.
Looking forward to being able to actually post in threads rather than just reading them
I am new to BYC but not to chickens
finally made myself an account get some help with our youngest birds that hatched 8w ago.We are UK based. 3 hens, 1 roo and 3 bebes (I think are all pullets so
on that!) and we generally lean towards bantams or breeds that are on the smaller side. We also have an elderly rabbit and an elderly cat, the former is in great health but the latter less so. All our pets are (and have been for years) black & white, or black, or white, or grey... (Greyscale? Monochrome?)Our eldest hen is 7½ - a silver laced wyandotte bantam called Hattie. She was one of the first batch of eggs we hatched out, and we've been through a lot together.
We had a flock of 6, and then a fox got into the coop in Aug 2020, taking out the 4 smaller hens (pekins and bantam araucanas) and leaving us with just Hattie and Mary (a marans bantam). They both needed nursing back to health as they were covered in injuries but they healed up remarkably. Mary sadly died last summer (I think of old age) right as Hattie went broody, so now there is a big age gap between her and the younger flock members! She's definitely the matriarch.
My username is after Hattie's sister who was one of my favourite hens. She sadly passed aged 3 as she became egg bound (she always had problems laying right from the start). That's her in my pfp, sitting on some bantam araucana eggs back in 2018.
Looking forward to being able to actually post in threads rather than just reading them
.
to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!
