Hi and welcome to BYC! I couldn't find very much information about this breed, but I do think they are primarily a meat bird. Good luck with them! 
here i am, needing the facts!
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LaFemmeKatia
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I would love to see pictures of your new chickens. I never heard of this breed before.
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Orpingtonsarecool
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A very warm welcome to you
If we have pictures, usually someone can at least give an idea of what they are, especially if they're meat birds. Do you have an approximate age on them?
Read your post with great interest and I'm sure you'll have many more interesting posts about chickens and gardens in Italy. We'll be excited to see pictures of these "little Middle-Eastern" (probably Italian) chicks and whether "experience" can sex chicks at 3 weeks! Looking forward to hearing more.
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ceertah
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I will posts pictures as soon as I can. When I brought them home (about 10 days ago) they still had plenty of downy yellow fluff, but by tomorrow it looks like they will have full coverage by normal feathers. Im not sure what that means as far as age, as its been almost 10 years since i raised chicken chicks.
Yesterday, I finished fencing the first 6 by 6 meter block of garden alongside the greenhouse and let them out of the greenhouse. They are still hunting bugs and eating the young stink bugs. They also seem to go for the basil seeds, right out of the flowers, and the bindweed leaves. In the last day they started scratching around and eating the leaves off my suffering little wing bean plants in the greenhouse, and scratching around the wild arugula (for this reason i had a push to get them out of the greenhouse asap). Aside from that sort of greenery though they seemed to be still finding plenty of insects out of the ground and off the greenhouse plants.
If i can help it, i will try to avoid having them learn about the inside of a tomato (or any fruit really) for as long as possible. The way they are working the stink bugs is really too good to be true! Our stink bugs are extra extra stinky, way more than i ever noticed in the states, and they do the most notable damage to tomatoes, green beans and okra. I think what we have here is Nezara_viridula young and adult.
The chicks haven't seen any fruit yet, except for a couple of green ground fall apples and a couple summer pears i threw into the g.house the other day, and i dont think they noticed those. We are practically swimming in tomatoes, plums, apples, pears and grapes here in the next month. Sooner or later they will learn about fruit...hopefully they will be willing to eat apples, plums and pears rather than getting determined to destroy the grape and tomato crop.
At the moment, I am (procrastinating by typing).... working on two other movable pens, one made with a bed frame, another with one of those metal cages that cubic meter bulk tanks come in. In the future im thinking of having something like poultry netting to allow temporary foraging areas (havent found anything like poultry netting in italy yet...) to have them help clean up the mess of plums and mulberries on the road.
The official chicken house and run in the space that i am working on is going to be a big project in the next year...we probably wont get much time to focus on it until after the olive harvest. Besides that, there is a retaining wall involved on one edge of the run that is in bad shape, it'll be awhile before that gets resolved and restructured in a stable way.
I want to enclose the entire run area with the coop house itself...safely against weasels so i won't have to be up with chickens everyday, as they will have access to the main run all the time. When that is done, I can keep an actual laying flock with at least 6 hens or more, whatever can fit comfortably in the run that we manage to build. Im gonna be looking for mediterranean egg breeds (like leghorns).
I know this is missing much meaning without pictures... I will be back.
Yesterday, I finished fencing the first 6 by 6 meter block of garden alongside the greenhouse and let them out of the greenhouse. They are still hunting bugs and eating the young stink bugs. They also seem to go for the basil seeds, right out of the flowers, and the bindweed leaves. In the last day they started scratching around and eating the leaves off my suffering little wing bean plants in the greenhouse, and scratching around the wild arugula (for this reason i had a push to get them out of the greenhouse asap). Aside from that sort of greenery though they seemed to be still finding plenty of insects out of the ground and off the greenhouse plants.
If i can help it, i will try to avoid having them learn about the inside of a tomato (or any fruit really) for as long as possible. The way they are working the stink bugs is really too good to be true! Our stink bugs are extra extra stinky, way more than i ever noticed in the states, and they do the most notable damage to tomatoes, green beans and okra. I think what we have here is Nezara_viridula young and adult.
The chicks haven't seen any fruit yet, except for a couple of green ground fall apples and a couple summer pears i threw into the g.house the other day, and i dont think they noticed those. We are practically swimming in tomatoes, plums, apples, pears and grapes here in the next month. Sooner or later they will learn about fruit...hopefully they will be willing to eat apples, plums and pears rather than getting determined to destroy the grape and tomato crop.
At the moment, I am (procrastinating by typing).... working on two other movable pens, one made with a bed frame, another with one of those metal cages that cubic meter bulk tanks come in. In the future im thinking of having something like poultry netting to allow temporary foraging areas (havent found anything like poultry netting in italy yet...) to have them help clean up the mess of plums and mulberries on the road.
The official chicken house and run in the space that i am working on is going to be a big project in the next year...we probably wont get much time to focus on it until after the olive harvest. Besides that, there is a retaining wall involved on one edge of the run that is in bad shape, it'll be awhile before that gets resolved and restructured in a stable way.
I want to enclose the entire run area with the coop house itself...safely against weasels so i won't have to be up with chickens everyday, as they will have access to the main run all the time. When that is done, I can keep an actual laying flock with at least 6 hens or more, whatever can fit comfortably in the run that we manage to build. Im gonna be looking for mediterranean egg breeds (like leghorns).
I know this is missing much meaning without pictures... I will be back.
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