Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

Some funny ones... These two were infatuated with the camera today! They wouldn't let me get pics of anybody else!

Great photos! My female EE is so shy that I'd have to tape her down to get a photo.

 

[Coffee 1st]

Sitting outside and a hawk is on the fence not 10 feet from me. It keeps staring at me staring at the chickens staring back at me that thing has no fear.. How do I get rid of Hawks?...

 

[KlopKlop]

Sitting outside and a hawk is on the fence not 10 feet from me. It keeps staring at me staring at the chickens staring back at me that thing has no fear.. How do I get rid of Hawks?...

Grab a broom, get your crazy eyes going, then rush the hawk while swinging the broom and making screeching noises. Show the hawk whose territory it is in!

 

[duluthralphie]

Sitting outside and a hawk is on the fence not 10 feet from me. It keeps staring at me staring at the chickens staring back at me that thing has no fear.. How do I get rid of Hawks?...

I just kick the dogs outside and the raptors are gone. Of Course, My dogs out weigh the hawks and Eagles.

 

[gofeedthegirls]

We got our first egg this morning! Way way early they just turned 16 weeks. I dont expect consistent laying from her tho quite yet. Found it by complete accident, I dont have the boxes in the coop yet mainly because I wasnt expecting eggs yet. I was moving around the feed bins and all of a suddent squaak a chicken runs out of the corner and poof egg!

 

[KlopKlop]

We got our first egg this morning! Way way early they just turned 16 weeks. I dont expect consistent laying from her tho quite yet. Found it by complete accident, I dont have the boxes in the coop yet mainly because I wasnt expecting eggs yet. I was moving around the feed bins and all of a suddent squaak a chicken runs out of the corner and poof egg!

Nice! It always fun to see a girls first egg

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Went to the fair yesterday. Going back tonight to see The Steep Canyon Rangers. Can't wait.

 

[Minniechickmama]

At 4:30 am this morning, I took poor seaquist, who has gone broody for the zillionth time this summer, out of the coop in the dark. Put her in the broody run which has a big dusting area under a roof, and a weedy area of the run - like a giant giant kennel on the ground with hardware cloth roof and walls.

She was freaked because it was dark,.....but I couldn't leave her broody in the hot coop all day. Felt bad, she was too scared even to settle down and roost on the ground. Put her in a sandy area in the middle, but.

So it is almost 7 am, its light out and I'm sure she is happy as a clam. This is the run behind the tiny coop - now known as the broody run.




And the white pullet is seaquist at about 4 or 5 months



An earlier juvie pic of her


She has a grown up comb, but still looks pretty much the same. She is small, like a seagull or pigeon.

Any ideas on what the heck she is? She is from that bunch of chicks that were hatched by someone on byc who trades unusual breeds hatching eggs....and got totally mixed up with what chick was what.

Got a side view of her now?
I am thinking cross with some Phoenix in her.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Grab a broom, get your crazy eyes going, then rush the hawk while swinging the broom and making screeching noises. Show the hawk whose territory it is in!

Or put a wire top on your run if you don't already have it. Bird netting (the plastic kind) might be okay, but if any chance of coon and they can chew right through it.

 

[Minniechickmama]

We got our first egg this morning! Way way early they just turned 16 weeks. I dont expect consistent laying from her tho quite yet. Found it by complete accident, I dont have the boxes in the coop yet mainly because I wasnt expecting eggs yet. I was moving around the feed bins and all of a suddent squaak a chicken runs out of the corner and poof egg!

If you have hatchery hybrids, that is not uncommon. That is about the time they shoot for to get their girls laying. I have heard as early as 14-weeks some of those crazy hybrids will lay.