prock family
In the Brooder
- Dec 14, 2022
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We have been into the chicken life for a few years now. We dabbled at our last house in town with a handful of chickens but then lost them all to predators and a harsh winter. We moved out to the country in '19 and started a new flock in the early spring of '20. It was just 4 hens, at first. We lost a couple because of a neighbor dog a year ago. We got some ducks this spring (8) and then our hens went broody. We didn't have any roosters but we had seen one in the area not long before so we gave them some time to hatch but they weren't fertilized. So we tried to trick them by swapping out the eggs for new babies. It didn't really work out as we think some of the babies that died were pecked. So we separated the babies that were left. One is a bantam rooster. The ducks then started sitting on eggs. We ended up losing some of those babies before we separated the 2 that survived but then we thought those babies needed some friends and bought some more chicks. So, the current count is 10 of each, ducks and chickens. The ducks are all Runners, of the original 8, 4 were chocolates and 4 were white/fawn, one of their babies is mostly chocolate but some lighter edging on the wings and the other baby is very unusual in color and markings. We have a mixture of breeds with the chickens. In addition to the bantam rooster, he has a companion bantam hen, a Sicilian Buttercup, 2 each light and dark Brahmas, 2 Red Wyandottes and 1 Blue Wyandotte.
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