HI Everyone, I'm from the UK, where I grew up with a mixed flock of chickens, I have been living in upstate NY for 9 years now. In July 2014, we got our first 2 chickens from a neighbors farm, when they were about 10 weeks old. The brown one turned out to be a Brown Leghorn we named Sylvia, and the white one a Plymouth Rock we named Miss Pearl. Here they are working on leftovers from a baby shower - they love watermelon!
As new chicken owners, we were so glad they made it, in the coop we built ourselves, through the worst winter we have had for a while, anyone remember seeing stories about 'Snowvember' in the Buffalo area in 11/14? Sylvia did get a little frostbite on her comb, good old Pearl just kept on laying - whatever the weather!
Our newest additions are some pullet chicks we picked up from Nature Berry Farm nr Rochester just last week. According to their chick page hatching list, our Silver Grey Dorking on the right, was hatched on May 15th, and our Silver Laced Wyandotte on the left hatched on May 22nd. Having researched various other chick threads on here, I'm not sure these dates are correct.
Can anyone out there give me an idea if these ages are correct? Our Dorking still has fluff on her chest and shoulders, 1 cute adult feather coming in on top of her shoulder blades, if she really is 5 weeks old wouldn't she have more adult feathers, and be larger? She weighs 116g. The Wyandotte, supposedly 1 week younger, dwarfs her, has more adult feathers and weighs in at 205g. They are both active, eating, drinking, and pooping well. I have a hard time tearing myself away, I love watching them.
Very glad to be part of the BYC group, I have been finding this site very helpful since we got our first chickens, so after almost a year of 'lurking' now I'm officially part of it!
As new chicken owners, we were so glad they made it, in the coop we built ourselves, through the worst winter we have had for a while, anyone remember seeing stories about 'Snowvember' in the Buffalo area in 11/14? Sylvia did get a little frostbite on her comb, good old Pearl just kept on laying - whatever the weather!
Our newest additions are some pullet chicks we picked up from Nature Berry Farm nr Rochester just last week. According to their chick page hatching list, our Silver Grey Dorking on the right, was hatched on May 15th, and our Silver Laced Wyandotte on the left hatched on May 22nd. Having researched various other chick threads on here, I'm not sure these dates are correct.
Can anyone out there give me an idea if these ages are correct? Our Dorking still has fluff on her chest and shoulders, 1 cute adult feather coming in on top of her shoulder blades, if she really is 5 weeks old wouldn't she have more adult feathers, and be larger? She weighs 116g. The Wyandotte, supposedly 1 week younger, dwarfs her, has more adult feathers and weighs in at 205g. They are both active, eating, drinking, and pooping well. I have a hard time tearing myself away, I love watching them.
Very glad to be part of the BYC group, I have been finding this site very helpful since we got our first chickens, so after almost a year of 'lurking' now I'm officially part of it!
