LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[Tre3hugger]

Update on the keets. Getting ready to move them outside in a week. They will be 3 weeks old on wednesdaty. They seem to be doing well! Flapping around the brooder, they can't wait for some room to fly.

Sorry for the blurry photos, they never stop moving! It's coo, to see the difference between their newborn down feathers(head stripes) and their spotty juvenile feather bods. They're growing up so fast!

 

[Tre3hugger]

Does this mix have a name? Adorable chicks!

BCM x CLB...so sexlinked.

 

[Eggscaping]

I've got a BioBator(broody hen) hatching today....
....hate that I can't watch as closely as with an incubator.
3 of 6 are out...2 Dinners for sure, hoping the rest are Sisters

VERY cool, Aart!! Where are the pictures??

 

[aart]

Does this mix have a name? Adorable chicks!

Black Copper Marans cock over Cream Legbar hens make sexlinked Olive Eggers.

VERY cool, Aart!! Where are the pictures??

Ended up being 3 Dinners and 1 Sister
(could be an integration nightmare once the boys are gone.)
Not had good luck getting pics, but here's a pretty good one.

 

[diamondsilkies]

Just found this thread and thought I'd poke my head in here to introduce myself. Bi chicken keeper here. I used to breed silkies and seramas but last year I made the decision to keep a backyard pet flock instead. It wasn't an easy decision, and I definitely miss it, but needed to be made.

As for now, I have 21 chickens: 2 silkie roosters and 15 hens (a combination of seramas, silkies, EE, speckled sussex, BCM, buff laced polish, red sex link, GLW, welsummer, and mixed breeds), along with four silkie chicks that are coming up on 3 months (thinking all pullets for now, but it's hard to believe I'm that lucky).

I'm currently battling my two broody hens, my BCM and speckled sussex. Lucky for me, neither of them are very mean broodies, but both are very persistent. I'd love some more babies right now, but I know that spending three weeks in nesting boxes during this time of year would be pretty detrimental to their health (our temperatures in AZ are about 105 F right now).

Thanks, @allosaurusrock, for starting this thread! It feels good to know there are people from our community on here, and that so many more are supportive!

 

[jolenesdad]

Update on the keets. Getting ready to move them outside in a week. They will be 3 weeks old on wednesdaty. They seem to be doing well! Flapping around the brooder, they can't wait for some room to fly.
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Sorry for the blurry photos, they never stop moving! It's coo, to see the difference between their newborn down feathers(head stripes) and their spotty juvenile feather bods. They're growing up so fast!

They’re still super cute!!!!!

 

[jolenesdad]

Lol. You’ve been here a while, I see. Welcome to BYC.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Gratuitous cuteness alert!

11 days old today

 

[Tre3hugger]

Moved everyone outside yesterday! The keets are a month old, and will still get their heat plate on for a week. They seem to be loving their new coop. So much room for activities!

I then had a stroke of genius(or maybe it was idiocy that it took this long lol) but I realized my disused rabbit hutch would make a perfect brooder. No more brooding inside for me...which mens more chicks soon! I built this hutch last year, but the rabbits went to freezer camp. The hutch is right outside my window, and one of the cages houses the extension cord where it connects to the brooder plate to protect it from elelments.

They are right across from the chicken run, so hopefully everyone starts getting to know each other. Chicks are 2 weeks old.

 

[jolenesdad]

Moved everyone outside yesterday! The keets are a month old, and will still get their heat plate on for a week. They seem to be loving their new coop. So much room for activities!
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I then had a stroke of genius(or maybe it was idiocy that it took this long lol) but I realized my disused rabbit hutch would make a perfect brooder. No more brooding inside for me...which mens more chicks soon! I built this hutch last year, but the rabbits went to freezer camp. The hutch is right outside my window, and one of the cages houses the extension cord where it connects to the brooder plate to protect it from elelments.
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They are right across from the chicken run, so hopefully everyone starts getting to know each other. Chicks are 2 weeks old.

Yay!!!! How did they do yesterday? I brooded for the first time outside about 2 years ago on my back porch and omg!!!! Chicks are never allowed in the house after 3 or so days.
What kind of chicks are these again??

my broody is doing so well. She has FOURTEEN three week old babies and they’ve been free ranging together for over two weeks without losing a single one! I’ve got another broody hen that I gave eggs to on Monday.

the current broody has olive eggers and the next broody got EEs and polish.