Fugly Farm

[igorsMistress]

Rest of the crew and a flower. The three pics of the EE are the same chicken but I wanted to get pics of her color. She really is a beautiful girl. Flower is on a pink bower vine.

 

[drstratton]

Love seeing your flock and yard IM. Those babies are so cute and your EE is a beautiful color.

 

[igorsMistress]

Love seeing your flock and yard IM. Those babies are so cute and your EE is a beautiful color.

The birds are awesome but the yard is a disaster. Have the almost adult helping clean things up out there. I really added more chickens for better weed control Not really, but they are great for that.

 

[drstratton]

The birds are awesome but the yard is a disaster. Have the almost adult helping clean things up out there. I really added more chickens for better weed control Not really, but they are great for that.

Nice to have some extra help with things.
Now, showing that the chickens are a tool used for weeding, will lend itself very well, to chicken math.

 

[Chixnbacn]

Our current flock members, we no longer name our chickens because it makes them pets. These are all Turken crosses, some with Jersey Giant but others I'm not sure.

The dominant rooster. I had 6 roosters to choose from. This guy wasn't the biggest of the males. He was selected because he didn't try to rape every pullet in sight when the more dominant boys were removed and I've never seen him beat up the little guy like the others did. He never grabbed a pullet by the feathers just because, didn't try to sneak up behind me in the coop and wasn't constantly in my space when I went outside.

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Here's the little guy. I hope to breed that nakedness into future generations.

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The flock, one of the black pullets came from an egg I hatched from Fugly and his favorite hen Nyx, a black Nn

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This was before we processed 4 roosters last weekend

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The chicks. One is an EE we got as a friend for the older Nn who I brought home because it was alone. There were 4 hatchlings on8/17 but one was culled, unable to hold itself up or walk well and pipped too high on the egg to get out without assistance. I don't babysit, I'll help a little bit but after that they're on their own. The EE has two extra toes on the side of each foot that I didn't notice when we got it. They seem to be causing problems with walking so we're debating on how to proceed there. Possibly remove with a dremel, it doesn't seem to have any control over them and they don't move. Turken/Bresse cross for the Nn babies.

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We have 3 eggs in the incubator due to hatch 8/25. One is a Turken/Bresse and 2 are Dorking/Red Ranger crosses.

That black one is fancy