Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[BlueBirdChick]

Well the blue cochin hatched

I did end up naming it Prancer. Its very cute

 

[SteveH]

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[jerseygirl1]

OMG - I have to get a brooder ready!!!!!!!!!!!Wow, I have 17 chicks going into lockdown !!!!!!! It's on Wednesday, right?

 

[PepsNick]

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I did and I think only one chick didnt make it. I think it was because of the trip. But other than that they are doing great I ordered Black australorps , my patridge rock and my other dark cornish.

Thanks, but I meant hatching eggs. And congrats to Prancer and "his" new friends.

 

[aka Rachel]

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Ha! I've spent most of the morning outside building a crazy big brooder, with hubby's help of course. I will have to put pics up when its done.

But of course I pick the coldest day to do it, and the wind, omgooses. My fingers are almost to cold to eat my hot turkey sandwiches

The sun is shining beautiful and the rooster is trying in vain to get the girls to leave the coop with him. They actually ventured out the other day but he could hardly move they were all cuddled up to him, LOL.

And the turkey we had this year was one i grew myself, 20lbs and it was AMAZING. I cooked it upside down for the first time too...it was awesome.

 

[gryeyes]

Well, I was nearly bowled over by my landlady's sheep this morning. It appears they really like corn, and I have been throwing out scratch to the exclusive group of chickens brave enough to forage in front of the house instead of only in the back yard. (I don't buy scratch - this was from half a 50# bag donated with the rescue chicken by her former owner - that is ALL she had been feeding her! She gave me the hen after her other hen died and this one stopped laying. When the scratch is gone, it's gone. I treat with BOSS and old-fashioned rolled oats.)

The leader of the small herd of sheep (3) is the mama-ewe named Baby. She's very clever. Her followers are her second set of twins and they are nearly 3 years old now. Hansel and Gretyl. The sheep keep the tree foliage trimmed very nicely - they stand on their hind legs to get to the leaves. So even the tree at my front door doesn't get too far down to the ground without human intervention.

Baby rushed me as I was tossing out the second small scoop of scratch. She's gentle, but pushy. I love her. Except when she gets out the drive gate when I am trying to get to work.... but that's another story.

She actually saw where the bag o' scratch is stored on a bench at the front of the house! I had to move it.

My chickens are really used to the sheep as they forage around them all the time, all over the acre. (Well, the sheep aren't allowed into my back yard.) So they only scattered a foot or so as the stampede started.

They are out there, right now, making a nice after-Christmas scene, 3 sheep laying next to my car on its concrete pad. Chickens milling about around them.

 

[CorgiHouse]

My early morning Christmas present was a FIRST egg laid from my home-grown blue pullet!!! I was so excited and it was even more special that she did it on Christmas for me. This little pullet is one of the four chicks that hatched under my broody this summer - my first and only hatch ever (so far....until NYD!) Dec. 25th was her 6 mos birthday as well. I've been dying to see if she lays blue or brown eggs, because her daddy is my EE roo, but her mama is a Black Star. She herself does not have the EE muffs/tufts and body shape is more like the hen as well. BUT.......she gave me a pretty little light mint green-blue egg.

So, my question is.........is she called an EE too? Even though she doesn't really have the characteristics of what is typical for them, but does lay tinted eggs?

Here's a picture of her at 8 weeks old (I really need to get out there with a camera):

 

[PepsNick]

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Too cute, Linda!

CorgiHouse- Blue Ameraucanas...

I'm planning on getting some of those next week or Spring!


Jerseygirl- If you want brooder ideas, I just made this page. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=56934-making-a-dog-crate-brooder

 

[SteveH]

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Of course she's an EE ; they can come in any color or form , that's their most attractive quality . Congrats .

 

[LarryPQ]

Here is my entry for the Crowing Rooster contest: