Flock/Life Journey's 2019

[mixedUPturk]

I forgot to mention that the Hona roo is missing what should be points on his comb due to frostbite.

 

[KLIL]

Flock Update:
My girls are free ranging at the moment. Im sitting with them. They got some cuddles. Like they love.

Only got 1 egg today but not sure if it was Hazels. Same colour but smaller so not sure. But Coco is squatting all over the place. Almond is starting to get a bit of comb and wattles but not red yet. Just pinky colour. I think she will start after 6 months old. They are 5 months and 19 days old today.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

ETA. Oops. Give me a second to finish this!
First off, Happy birthday Krystal! I just read all 114 pages in the last couple of hours and this thread seems great!

You guys can call me J, even though my handle has absolutely nothing to do with my actual name! I'm a native central floridian and currently have almost 30 chickens and 6 muscovy ducks.

I started over after the majority of my flock was killed by an unknown predator and hatched out some mixed breed chicks on September 22. They are about a day from being 4 months old!

They could be any mix of Speckled Sussex, BBS Copper Marans, Ameraucanas, Olive Eggers, EEs, Leghorns, Red Sexlink and Salmon Faverolles.

I rehomed all of the cockerels a few weeks ago, pretty boys but too big to continue to try to mount the Bantam girls I have. I only kept a frizzled Bantam Cochin cockerel who is the least masculine cockerel I've ever met.

At over 5 months old I've only seen him crow once a few days ago! He's also not very interested in breeding the girls yet, so he's doing a good job so far at being calm and controlled. I also have a Batchelor coop for the Bantam cockerels from last springs TSC straight run Bantam bin.


I went out just before dark today and got some pictures of my flock. I got a picture of everyone I hatched myself.

The girl in front was taking a drink of water and the one in the back was looking all sassy! It's the beard that makes it! (No the water is not dirty I just need to scrub the milk jug down)
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This is the little biter! Always finding something interesting, like a scab, and pecking it.
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Beards just make me happy! How could you look at this and be sad!
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Seeing if she can get a spot on my shoulder.
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My girl in the back is Gimpy. She had a slipped achilles tendon when she was about a month old. She limps but gets around quite well. She enjoys cuddles and was known as Tax Chicken yesterday. She came in the house with me when my sister was doing her taxes online and 'helped' by talking back when she was asked questions. All hail the Tax Chicken!
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The background girl in the first picture, this is A photo all by herself.
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A group shot of my bantams.
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Burr it's getting cold out!
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That's all from today!

Now for more Gimpy!
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Here's the frizzled Bantam Cochin cockerel. Isn't he cute?
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Some foraging going on. This was before the cockerels where rehomed.
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One of three silver duckwing OEGBs.
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Lavender OEGB.
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Lavender and red Pyle OEGBs and the head of a porcelain d'uccles peaking out.
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Dust bath!

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Now the ducks! I have 2 drakes and 4 ducks. I need to get more girls to make sure there's enough of them to keep everyone happy.
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One of the drakes.
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Another duck.
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The other drake. He looks funny because he's about to sit down!
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And the final picture of one of the ducks.
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Great post and pictures, every one of your birds are beautiful - absolutely gorgeous in fact - all had me cooing and awwww'ing,
And as for your Bantem Cochin Cockerel, so cute!. Lovely post, so glad you shared this

 

[Anna Ranieri]

It's 1:39 here in Florida. I stayed up Late for the blood moon. It was pretty cool seeing the moon red!

Never seen a red moon, must be an awesome sight!

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Morning Peeps on this side of the world

Evening Peeps on the other side

Hi from England

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Good morning to you! At the time of writing this it's 5:04PM here in slightly chilly Florida. Everyone has been free-ranging most of the day. I got a few pictures too!

I love Gimpy and her beard!
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This girl thinks I'm her rooster! I guess Mr. Fluffball in the back isn't attending to her needs.
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This is one of my dogs, Keke. With Bob in the background. Typical pit bull, looking so cute in her sweater!
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Those beards are great - who would have ever thought a beard would look so good on a female lol.
Lovely looking dogs, how are they with your birds?
Never seen a fluffy duck before, what breed is he? He's so cute.
Saw your duck pools in the background, I have very similar type pools, I have to scoop out the water with a bucket when I empty mine - such an annoyance. We don't really get any decent pools for ducks over here which is a shame as I'd really like one with a water outlet on it, my ducks like them though so I guess that's all that matters really

 

[Anna Ranieri]

We aren't allowed to have pitbulls here. The government thinks they are too dangerous. But its not the breed its the silly owners that make them dangerous.

Your babies are beautiful. Omg Gimpy is sooo cute with her beard lol.

Same here, Pit Bulls are banned, however recently they lifted the ban on Staffy's but I doubt they'll ever lift the ban on Pit Bulls.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

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Your birds are lovely, gorgeous colours - I've never seen chickens with black combs/wattles before, they're awesome!

 

[KLIL]

Same here, Pit Bulls are banned, however recently they lifted the ban on Staffy's but I doubt they'll ever lift the ban on Pit Bulls.

We can have Staffys but not pitbulls. Were Staffys banned where you are?

 

[rjohns39]

Morning folks in my hemisphere

Evening for those down under

And afternoon for those in the UK