INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[JanetMarie]

The recent chicken shed that my husband built. Just finished staining the trim over the weekend.

 

[kanina]

I'm in the SB area and what I've seen on CL... not what I'd trust to purchase.

The posting out of Lakeville with the Maran and Legbar crosses, I've got a dozen of her eggs in my incubator. My grandma visited her last week and really liked her set up. We'll see how these eggs turn out.

Edit: grabbed the link https://southbend.craigslist.org/grd/d/baby-chicks-marans-legbar/6341926354.html

 

[Indyshent]

Looks like five out of six Silkies are guys. Blargh. Will be eating patriotic chicken dishes later, but I'm going to wait til the six CX are big enough to process, then do them all at once. Will have a lot of other young roosters that might be big enough to process later too (mostly Marans and EE mixes). Some of the silkies are actually good size birds, which surprised me. The biggest one has a huge single comb and is a ninja.

 

[kanina]

Looks like five out of six Silkies are guys. Blargh. Will be eating patriotic chicken dishes later, but I'm going to wait til the six CX are big enough to process, then do them all at once. Will have a lot of other young roosters that might be big enough to process later too (mostly Marans and EE mixes). Some of the silkies are actually good size birds, which surprised me. The biggest one has a huge single comb and is a ninja.

What colors do you have and would you be willing to part with one? I'm looking for a colored silkie roo, but not in a rush.

 

[Indyshent]

What colors do you have and would you be willing to part with one? I'm looking for a colored silkie roo, but not in a rush.

They're all white, but white in silkies is recessive, so you'll still get colored offspring. From what I understand, most white silkies are partridge under their lab coats. All of the guys are different sizes, but only one is a more bantam type size. Pretty sure the dinky one is a guy, but he's throwing the bigger guys into confusion, so *somebody* is wrong on its gender (however, I've observed both of these bigger, quite desperate, super hormonal, guys going after other likely cockerels before).

 

[Leahs Mom]

Lab coats!

 

[Faraday40]

Anyone want to play guess that gender!?!
These chicks are 5 weeks old. All are purebred orps. I color coded them with head spots, so I can keep track of them. It also makes it fun when people come to buy chicks. More than once, people made comments about how they never knew that chickens came in such pretty colors.



These 2 are my best bets for males, but I'm not 100% sure. Normally, their combs would be this size by 2 weeks & doubled by 5 weeks.
BLUE

LIGHT BLUE

Pic below shows blue on back left & light blue right/front



My best guesses for females:
WHITE (NO MARK)
*This is Jewel's baby = a possible blue orp sport or lav orp. Chick looked white at hatch but is looking lavender now. Pretty sure it's female, though.

PINK


GREEN


Completely confused on the genders of these last two:
Part of it could be because they were hyper when photographed so they look flushed.

PURPLE


BLACK




Some random group shots:

 

[Dayrel]

Does anyone have any experience with Hillview Vet Clinic in Franklin, IN for chicken/other poultry care?

They appear to be the closest avian vets from SE Indy according to the Association of Avian Veterinarians web site.

 

[hbrown322]

Anyone want to play guess that gender!?!
These chicks are 5 weeks old. All are purebred orps. I color coded them with head spots, so I can keep track of them. It also makes it fun when people come to buy chicks. More than once, people made comments about how they never knew that chickens came in such pretty colors.



These 2 are my best bets for males, but I'm not 100% sure. Normally, their combs would be this size by 2 weeks & doubled by 5 weeks.
BLUE

LIGHT BLUE

Pic below shows blue on back left & light blue right/front



My best guesses for females:
WHITE (NO MARK)
*This is Jewel's baby = a possible blue orp sport or lav orp. Chick looked white at hatch but is looking lavender now. Pretty sure it's female, though.

PINK


GREEN


Completely confused on the genders of these last two:
Part of it could be because they were hyper when photographed so they look flushed.

PURPLE


BLACK




Some random group shots:

In your experience, when do lavender orps start laying? Mine is 7 months and hasn’t started laying yet! Her and my welsummer are my free loaders. The welsummer is showing signs so hopefully she will stay laying any day now. But my Orpington has shown no signs!

 

[Indyshent]

Rule of thumb: bigger breeds and better quality heritage birds will start laying later. If she's not laying by spring, you might want to take a really good look at her and make sure that you're not expecting eggs from a rooster. Big, heritage breeds can take eight months or more to lay, especially if they're good quality girls. Also, some girls hide eggs. I had a Dark Brahma pullet a few years ago, and I thought she took half of forever to start laying... turned out later that she'd already laid like 40 eggs under a neighbor's bush.