Michigan

[Hillbilly Hen]

Welcome Jenevra!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Some more pics of some of my chickens.
The Delaware cockeral I am thinking about keeping for breeding

My New Hampshire cockeral

My New Hampshire pullets

My first two icelandic eggs, the white ones

 

[NovaAman]

yum. eggs. thinking of breakfast now!
Thats one pretty guy you got there.


Why do we say roosters are pretty/beautiful? Why not handsome?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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I am always telling the New Hampshire [Roy] how handsome he is.

 

[DaughterOfEve]

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My DD's 4H club is great. Call your friends leader and ask if you can join in then sign up with your MSU extension office for your county. You dd can sell market birds or can participate in showmanship, or just take birds for to show for breed class. Showmanship is about what the kids know and can do, where breed class is all about what quality the bird is. Show and Breed do not require selling. Hope this helps.

 

[chicken grandma]

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How awful...I'm so sorry to read about this. So sad. Have your missing layers come back? I had one come out of hiding after a hawk visit only after my dog flushed it out of the flowerbed. We couldn't find her for a day and a half and thought we had lost her.
I had a stray dog visit yesterday, and the neighbor has a dog that gets out. I think we might all be a step away from your experience.......

Fences - I put a 6 ft privacy fence around the yard where the hens are. I still have to worry about predators but not dogs...

 

[Chickmate]

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Glad they fit in so easily! They're such docile birds. The ones I had were always hanging around the edge, so I'd sneak them some scratch when the others were too busy with theirs to notice. And funny about him being gentle. Mine....if the girls sqawked at his attentions, he was, like, apologetic. You could see it in his eyes!

But that roo, Beauregard, timid though he was, had a huge heart. One day we heard this strange persistent loud noise, and it was him! Warily and noisily circling a toy stufffed eagle my son had left in their yard, while EVERYONE else was in hiding. Even the big guys. So my hubby had mercy on them all and removed the offender......

Then dark started coming earlier, before I was always home to shut the pop door, and I noticed he had started to hang out right next to it. Strange. A couple of nights later, we found him. It turns out the neighbor's cat had been visiting, he knew it and was guarding the door until we could close it. He must have gone out, and it strangled him.

I was SO mad!!! And sad. That beautiful timid rooster gave his life for the whole bunch of them.

Will you have pictures up soon?
bethanyrae

 

[NovaAman]

yup. Just giving them a chance to get to know that I am not going to hurt them.

 

[chikkaboomboom]

Well

 

[chicken grandma]

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Our vet suggested I put a full spectrum light into the coop during the daylight hours. The chickens really enjoyed that! I also use a red heat lamp at night. Red is still warming but is easier on the eyes of the chickens - allows them to rest more fully!