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[DarthLayer]

First chick!!!!

 

[vickichicki]

Yay Darth.... Let's keep 'em coming!

 

[julie0477]

First chick!!!!

hurray!!!!!

 

[Paul Jones]

First chick!!!!

VERY NICE!

 

[Webechickens]

Awww!

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Wow Another Beautiful Cat !!!!




Originally Posted by irtehun

Just realized today, I have a chicken problem. Going to pick up 9 more hens on Monday. 5 jersey giants, 3 more white leghorns, and a RiR cross breed

I've had this problem for YEARS !!! Welcome to the addiction club !!

 

[Too Fast]

IN-Fecal Facials?

It's hard to tell for sure on the other two, but the red hen at the back of this picture is a red sexlink. If the other two have white tail feathers, flight feathers, and down, then they are sexlinks as well.

And yes, by their build and the size of their combs, your white hens are white Plymouth Rocks. Leghorns are typically more upright and skinny, with very large combs. Here's a white Leghorn hen for comparison:



See how her comb is so large that it folds over?

Funnily enough I just found your post in the 'what breed' forum, I do lurk there from time to time... I then noticed you got yours from TSC in greenwood... The girl who gave me the chicks lives in greenwood so I guess she got them there too... Hmmm....

First of all, I can't believe that 12 hours later I am 56 posts behind. Doesn't anybody on this thread ever sleep???

Thunder Chicken, I like your idea about IN fecal facials. I think we need to get that started over at VickiChickies outpost near Post Rd. Get it? Old Salt will come over to help, I'm sure. He seems to have the most crap to give.

Also, I always thought we had white leghorns, and now with these pictures it is confirmed. Our girls combs are getting bigger and flopping over. I'm starting to call one of them Floppy. They are skinny birds for sure. We got our leghorns from TSC out in Plainfield. West of Indy.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

First chick!!!!

How exciting !!! Congrats !!

 

[bradselig]

Great job! Congrats

 

[Too Fast]

Brad, I have read about the pecking order thing but haven't seen it to this extreme. Of course, this is the first time I have added birds to an existing flock. The first six were raised together, four sex-links and two newly discovered white rocks. The existing flock will pick on each other and sometimes I saw some bullying but they are particularly brutal to the new EEs. The EEs have to roost on different perches and cannot go to the ground without getting pecked and bitten until they retreat to a perch or the upper level. Sometimes it seems that one of the sex-links will go to a perch just to pick on them but the EEs seem to have a better advantage there. They are not able to gang up on one there. I think that's why the EEs are always on a perch. Do you think this will pass? I have read that it takes a couple of weeks for a new bird to be accepted but it is hard to watch.

This week was the first time in over a month that my second batch of chickens I put out in the coop actually went outside. They always hung around the coop. When the older chickens went outside, they all came down from the perches to eat and hang out on the floor. As soon as the older chickens came in, up they went onto the perches. I think it helped taking the next batch of younger chicks and putting them in the coop as well. These guess are more courageous than the pervious group and went out after a couple days of hiding in a lay box. It does get better with time, but you will still catch the older birds reminding the younger who's on top of the pecking order. Heck, I even have my original naked neck hens bossing the roosters around who are quite a bit bigger than them. If the roosters start harassing a hen trying to breed her (and she doesn't want them to mount them), the naked necks go running up and chase the Roos away. So yes, it does get better from my experience, but agree with you. It's not very fun to watch them doing it.

Yes it is brutal to see the new chickens go thru the pecking order. It's been 2 weeks now and finally our new Faverolles is not getting attacked constantly. She is scared of her own shadow, tho, and jumps sometimes when the wind blows. Thunder Chicken, I think it will pass, this is the first time we've introduced anybody new to the original flock.