July 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[WIchickMama]

Mama and babies fully integrated with flock-slept in the coop loose for the 1st time last night at 2 weeks and 1 day . Woke up to everyone happy and ready to eat! I do have one aggressive towards chicks hen that is now in solitary confinement until they are bigger or will be rehomed.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Mama and babies fully integrated with flock-slept in the coop loose for the 1st time last night at 2 weeks and 1 day . Woke up to everyone happy and ready to eat! I do have one aggressive towards chicks hen that is now in solitary confinement until they are bigger or will be rehomed.

Excellent news! Sorry about the jerk hen but you’ve got a good handle, and plan, on it.

Excessive or unreasonable aggression is my line in the sand with our farm animals. It keeps things simple and safe. It’s applied to horses, goats, pigs, and poultry.

 

[WIchickMama]

Excessive or unreasonable aggression is my line in the sand with our farm animals. It keeps things simple and safe. It’s applied to horses, goats, pigs, and poultry.

Here too. I want to give her one more chance when they are bigger, I mean they aren't even 3 weeks yet but time will tell.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

When all you want to do it take pictures of your July HAL chicks but you have an overly friendly BCM from your June HAL….



What I was actually trying to photograph. The size difference between the Hoover’s Easter Eggers and my local hatched Silverudd’s. Those Hoover’s gals are growing at an astounding speed.

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

When all you want to do it take pictures of your July HAL chicks but you have an overly friendly BCM from your June HAL….
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What I was actually trying to photograph. The size difference between the Hoover’s Easter Eggers and my local hatched Silverudd’s. Those Hoover’s gals are growing at an astounding speed.

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Wow, that Silverudd looks just like one of my June mutts!

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Wow, that Silverudd looks just like one of my June mutts!

Pics! I’d love to see what she looks like.

I have two BYM June HAL with blue in them. I lost track of what eggs they came from awhile ago. Based on their coloring I think they’re from the seller with a blue laced red Wyandotte rooster over Olive Egger hen (Legbar x Welsummer). The bird with more blue is the chick in my avatar!

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Pics! I’d love to see what she looks like.

I have two BYM June HAL with blue in them. I lost track of what eggs they came from awhile ago. Based on their coloring I think they’re from the seller with a blue laced red Wyandotte rooster over Olive Egger hen (Legbar x Welsummer). The bird with more blue is the chick in my avatar!
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I'll get some pics! His name is Nickolai and he has a foot issue (?). I am SO envious of that BLRW mix. I was supposed to get two BLRWs in my July eggs, but I didn't get any. That was the one breed that I absolutely wanted to hatch! Ugh.

 

[Iluveggers]

Pics! I’d love to see what she looks like.

I have two BYM June HAL with blue in them. I lost track of what eggs they came from awhile ago. Based on their coloring I think they’re from the seller with a blue laced red Wyandotte rooster over Olive Egger hen (Legbar x Welsummer). The bird with more blue is the chick in my avatar!
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Are your BLRW mixes cockerels? I have 2 EE in my July hatch that I think are boys, because they are grey with the reddish brown all over their backs. They are so pretty, I was hoping one of them would be a girl. I’ll have to get pics next time I am at the farm. Oldest is going away this week so I might not get over there til this weekend.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Are your BLRW mixes cockerels? I have 2 EE in my July hatch that I think are boys, because they are grey with the reddish brown all over their backs. They are so pretty, I was hoping one of them would be a girl. I’ll have to get pics next time I am at the farm. Oldest is going away this week so I might not get over there til this weekend.

I don’t know for sure. I’m not giving up hope they’re pullets until I know for 100%. Out of the 14 June HAL chicks I kept 6 and gave away 8 definite cockerels. Two of those 6 are also cockerels (one known, one surprise). Everything about them says pullet except for the darker red coming in on their shoulders. Telltale male but still I hope.

 

[Iluveggers]

I don’t know for sure. I’m not giving up hope they’re pullets until I know for 100%. Out of the 14 June HAL chicks I kept 6 and gave away 8 definite cockerels. Two of those 6 are also cockerels (one known, one surprise). Everything about them says pullet except for the darker red coming in on their shoulders. Telltale male but still I hope.

Fingers crossed for both of us…