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[gator75]

Gator75 - 

can we do general chicken chatter -- and await your posting the pictures of your flock when they arrive?  Not meaning to be rude here -- but you already got the answer to your original post, sooooooo is it o.k.?  

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[ChicKat]

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Thanks!

 

[BantyChooks]

Quote:Lol! Well, one can always hope. I thought for sure the setting hen ("Jace") was a male, hence the roo-ish name... Whoops! Best mistake I have made yet.

She will be a year old on the 16th and is the sweetest, tamest, prettiest chicken I have come across yet.

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Oh, I am sure- Isn't that how it always goes?

-Banti

 

[Calebs Chicks]

Definitely standard size...some jumbo. Black Copper Maran laid gigantic chocolate eggs!

 

[unionhillchix]

A little bit away from the topic - but a question you may be able to answer. I had a single chick hatch -- and went to the feedstore to buy a companion for that chick to grow up with. All the other chicks I have are 2-weeks older to about 9 weeks older.

I bought an OEGB - and the information I found says that they tend to go broody, be good mother hens and don't lay many eggs. -- If (and I hope I picked out a she) were to go broody, how many full sized eggs could she cover? Size from research says these hens will reach 20-22 ounces. Little! Wanted to make sure that the new chick I got wouldn't beat up the 2-day old....and the now the 3-day old is bigger than this 2-week old.

A standard size OEG can cover around nine or ten eggs and a bantam can cover 5 to 6. (I got this information from Harvey Ussery's book The Small Scale poultry Flock which talks about incubating with broody hens. Really good book.)

 

[ChicKat]

The friend giving them to me "paid extra" for guaranteed females....So, I'm sure all of mine will be roosters.

Wouldn't that be awful! but you could always eat them and start over again.....

 

[RoseMary12]

I really think next time you get chickens you should get three or more. I've gotten three. If you only get two, what'll happen to one of them if the other dies off? Just keep that in mind.

 

[ChicKat]

I really think next time you get chickens you should get three or more. I've gotten three. If you only get two, what'll happen to one of them if the other dies off? Just keep that in mind.

Hi RoseMary12- is that advice for me?

I was tempted to get more than one -- but what I really needed was a companion chick for one that hatched as just a one. My hatching season is pretty much over now -- I have 29 chicks to grow out right now and that is about my capacity (especially as they get bigger) -- and that doesn't count my 11 others. Recently sent a nice legbar hen with a friend and 6 other chicks were sold or I would have begun to have way way too many!

Always worried when you are hatching -- what happens if only a single chick hatches. A friend of mine had a broody that didn't get any of the eggs to hatch so she bought two chicks at the feed store for the broody -- and it was a very happy family. -- and one died, but the remaining chick had mom. In my case -- the chick that hatched was 2-weeks behind the youngest ones ahead of it -- and so I thought a feed store chick would give it a playmate to grow up with. They are really cute together!

 

[ChicKat]

Hi gator75 ---
any chickens yet?

 

[gator75]

Hi gator75 --- 
any chickens yet?

I posted them in another forum. But here they are..

Coop area progress. Starting on the garden.