Illinois...

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

They grow up so fast. So far these F&F light Brahmas look better than I thought they would.

 

[cavemanrich]

Beautiful girls
I do have an opinion and personal reason why I do not want feathered feet.
I had a few Cochin and some other mixed mutts with feathered feet. Those feathers always look sad, and dirty. After a while, they started loosing their toes. It looked like osteoporosis, and the toes were breaking off. This was a slow process, and eventually one on them has NO TOES LEFT I renamed her stumpy,, She was still able to walk, and even jump onto roost bar.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Beautiful girls
I do have an opinion and personal reason why I do not want feathered feet.
I had a few Cochin and some other mixed mutts with feathered feet. Those feathers always look sad, and dirty. After a while, they started loosing their toes. It looked like osteoporosis, and the toes were breaking off. This was a slow process, and eventually one on them has NO TOES LEFT I renamed her stumpy,, She was still able to walk, and even jump onto roost bar.

As their feet feathers started to grow I wondered if they would just always be full of poop. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Molpet]

Beautiful girls
I do have an opinion and personal reason why I do not want feathered feet.
I had a few Cochin and some other mixed mutts with feathered feet. Those feathers always look sad, and dirty. After a while, they started loosing their toes. It looked like osteoporosis, and the toes were breaking off. This was a slow process, and eventually one on them has NO TOES LEFT I renamed her stumpy,, She was still able to walk, and even jump onto roost bar.

I didn't want feathered feet cause of the snow and mud... didn't know that could happen

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

I think this is my biggest egg yet. 3.65 oz.

 

[Justso]

I'm mucking out the pond today... I drained it out over the front lawn (downhill away form the house) and the grass seems to have filtered the water withing the ~30ft from the end of the 2" hose to the sidewalk. I was shocked. The water was coming out of the hose brown due to all the muck in the bottom and and then clear by the time it reached the sidewalk, which didn't take long. From there it went through the lawn in the parkway, onto the curb and down a to the sewer a few houses over. The muck in the bottom has not been so easy to get rid of though. I'm filling (4) 5-gallon buckets, climbing out of the pond using a ladder and dumping the buckets into a wheelbarrow, and then rolling it across the yard to a spot we decided to dump it all. It mostly gravel, but it the consistency of fresh wet concrete with thanks to all the muck (rotted leaves, poop, feathers, mud, etc.). I've decided the gravel is not going back in. It worked well for the koi and goldfish, but the bio-load from the ducks just clogs the gravel. To help with that bio-load, I'm finally building the pond filtration system too. That's going to be a project in itself for later this week.

Your lawn is going to grow crazy good with all that fertilizer on it!

 

[Justso]

As their feet feathers started to grow I wondered if they would just always be full of poop. Thanks for the heads up.

My girls feet filled with poop and mud, then dry up and clear off

 

[Faraday40]

My girls feet filled with poop and mud, then dry up and clear off

My silkies are like that. The feet feathers can get icky but when the mud dries it flakes itself off. Silkie feet look gross anyway. Black skin, fuzzy ragged feathers, & 5 toes - it's just too weird. However, their fluff always looks clean & their only desire in life is to be cuddled and loved. For that they make good (but odd-looking) pets.

 

[Faraday40]

So far I've got 3 blacks and 11 lavs & blues (hard to tell which is which but I think 2 are blues)

One chick hatched with a bloody navel and the others were pecking at it. It was quickest to pull the injured one out and slip it under Cookie. It's fine now, and Cookie is happy. Her happiness will suddenly & surprisingly grow when I add all those chicks.

Most of the turkey eggs are pipped. No poults or seramas yet.

Incubator party.

It's funny how they can be so active then collapse in a chick pile.

My viewing window is being obstructed by dusty, chick fluff

 

[homeschoolin momma]

This was a slow process, and eventually one on them has NO TOES LEFT I renamed her stumpy,, She was still able to walk, and even jump onto roost bar.

I have a chicken with no toes. Freaks out my 16 yr. old. She goes clomp, clomp, clomp when she walks. She even scratches in the dirt, although not very effective in doing so.