Meet my Chick!

[CrazyCochin]

I am sad to report, that something snagged our D' Anver....

 

[Nigel27]

First pic is my favorite new pullet “China” [chee-na]🗣

 

[WhoDatChick]

Did you see our honorary naked neck Olive Egger hen?

Oh yes.. I did! She must be molting huh?
And I love that.. I think she looks like a natural .... a “true” NN!

 

[WhoDatChick]

I am sad to report, that something snagged our D' Anver....

Aawww... so sorry to hear this....
Do you have any idea what it could’ve been?
That’s so sad

 

[WhoDatChick]

View attachment 2474177View attachment 2474179First pic is my favorite new pullet “China” [chee-na]🗣View attachment 2474182

I love it!
They are adorable! Are they mixed breeds?
And how many babies do you have at the moment? Isit hard keeping all of them warm during the winter?

 

[CrazyCochin]

Aawww... so sorry to hear this....
Do you have any idea what it could’ve been?
That’s so sad

Thank you.
No, sadly, we get hawks, eagles, and owls, and his feathers were outside his pen, so it must have been an aerial thief.

 

[CrazyCochin]

Thank you.
No, sadly, we get hawks, eagles, and owls, and his feathers were outside his pen, so it must have been an aerial thief.

I haven't been inside the pen yet, but I didn't see any remains, and there aren't that many feathers outside it, just one main spot with a small handful, and a few scattered. No obvious trail either.

 

[CrazyCochin]

I haven't been inside the pen yet, but I didn't see any remains, and there aren't that many feathers outside it, just one main spot with a small handful, and a few scattered. No obvious trail either.

But on the up-side, it makes room in the pen, so maybe we can put some of our extra young roosters in there.
We have 9 roosters so far.

 

[WhoDatChick]

But on the up-side, it makes room in the pen, so maybe we can put some of our extra young roosters in there.
We have 9 roosters so far.

Do you plan to keep all of them?

 

[Nigel27]

I love it!
They are adorable! Are they mixed breeds?
And how many babies do you have at the moment? Isit hard keeping all of them warm during the winter?

25 hatched since Christmas Eve, I’ll be setting another incubator In the next day or so. From my first flock, almost a year now. I started w eggs from a AC cock and BR hen and learned about sex link genes, barring genes and fibro-melanistic genes. I got some crested bantam eggs from a friend and got two pullets and a cockerel from those now I’m hooked. Them I got some ameraucana eggs and hatched seven. I’m trying to make some FM (to reduce predation)green or blue egg layers(to reduce egg productivity to make 100%free ranging more realistic), w peacomb(to reduce frostbite) but I now also want a crested bantam flock (for egg incubation and looks)and a dual purpose flock for supplying eggs and meat to family)
So far it hasn’t been hard keeping them warm, they live in a barrel brooder by the woodstove w a heat lamp then they go to a greenhouse w a heatlamp and brooder when they’re a couple weeks(depending on how feathered) the greenhouse is accessible to the flock they’re being integrated into and the brooder makes them visible to the flock so after a couple weeks they go into the greenhouse and a new batch goes in the brooder to get used to the flock. It’s working well so far. One important piece of advice is to add chunks of earth to your brooder. Expose the chicks the dirt as soon as possible preferably before their belly button is fully dried. I think this is really important in building their immune systems when hatching inside and especially in winter.