Necklace
Songster
- Dec 4, 2014
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I live in Tampa, Florida and I got my first baby chick's about a year ago. I got them more for the joy of having them then the eggs but the eggs are a good bonus.. 
I started out with 6 chick's at about a week old.. They all got up to about 6 months of age and I gave up two of them to my Aunt who had lost 4 of her chickens .. plus the two I gave her were a bit mean so it worked out good. One of my chick's turned out to be a rooster.. we were calling it Chipette but now it is just Chip.. He is a red rock rooster and he is huge now double the size of my hens... who are more like turkeys.. they eat to good. My Rooster is sweet though and he looks after his girls very well.. He has only been violent one time with one of my daughters he pecked at her foot a few times and broke the skin but I am preaty sure she did something to tick him off.
My user name "necklace" was the name of another baby chick that my youngest daughter named.. she was a Naked-neck chicken and she was such a sweet baby.. she ended up hanging herself on a bunggie cord that I had hung there water container on to keep it off of the floor.. I had seen other coops like that and thought it would be ok but I was wrong.. I don't use those in there cage any longer..
so we had 2 hens and a rooster left when I bought two more adult naked-neck chickens from the same breeder... one is red colored *ruby* and one is dark grey *diamond* .. they are such smart birds.. Ruby took over the flock preaty quick and was aggressive to my other hens for a bit..
well 4 hens and a rooster just did not seem like enough .. Chip the rooster was stressing out the hens with all the hanky-panky :/ so I got 6 more chick's.. kept them separate till they were about 4 months old then started mixing the two groups.. there was some conflict at first mostly with ruby but they are all getting along good now.. we lost one of the Americana babies.. not sure what happened to her she just did not come home one night and she never returned.. The rest have just started laying there eggs so now Chip has others hens to run after so he does not stress out just one ..
Well that is my long winded story about my chickens.. :/
I started out with 6 chick's at about a week old.. They all got up to about 6 months of age and I gave up two of them to my Aunt who had lost 4 of her chickens .. plus the two I gave her were a bit mean so it worked out good. One of my chick's turned out to be a rooster.. we were calling it Chipette but now it is just Chip.. He is a red rock rooster and he is huge now double the size of my hens... who are more like turkeys.. they eat to good. My Rooster is sweet though and he looks after his girls very well.. He has only been violent one time with one of my daughters he pecked at her foot a few times and broke the skin but I am preaty sure she did something to tick him off. My user name "necklace" was the name of another baby chick that my youngest daughter named.. she was a Naked-neck chicken and she was such a sweet baby.. she ended up hanging herself on a bunggie cord that I had hung there water container on to keep it off of the floor.. I had seen other coops like that and thought it would be ok but I was wrong.. I don't use those in there cage any longer..
so we had 2 hens and a rooster left when I bought two more adult naked-neck chickens from the same breeder... one is red colored *ruby* and one is dark grey *diamond* .. they are such smart birds.. Ruby took over the flock preaty quick and was aggressive to my other hens for a bit.. well 4 hens and a rooster just did not seem like enough .. Chip the rooster was stressing out the hens with all the hanky-panky :/ so I got 6 more chick's.. kept them separate till they were about 4 months old then started mixing the two groups.. there was some conflict at first mostly with ruby but they are all getting along good now.. we lost one of the Americana babies.. not sure what happened to her she just did not come home one night and she never returned..
The rest have just started laying there eggs so now Chip has others hens to run after so he does not stress out just one .. Well that is my long winded story about my chickens.. :/
