Miscellaneous Meeps - Hatching my Dreams

[2ndTink]

In case anyone missed the code for Brinsea in the Connect Testing thread, they had created a special 15% code for us! BYC15 will give 15% on all Brinsea items on their webpage except for the Scratch and Dent ones.

 

[RememberTheWay]

Do you not do fall/winter hatching?

Not so glorious photos, but this is real coop life.

I have two little grow outs that needed more heat in with a bantam and her frizzle friend. Here are the three preening next to each other this morning. View attachment 3985172
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And, I got back up to 7 broodies so I moved 4 that were in the one breeding coop into a "please stop being broody" pen. They are not happy today. Once these 4 break and go back were they belong, I'll move the 3 from the other pen in here.

 

[2ndTink]

Do you not do fall/winter hatching?

I have, but I prefer spring hatching so I can get them outside sooner. The cockerel I kept from the Christmas hatch last year doesn't really know how to chicken. He's been outside now for months but still acts like a little prima donna and doesn't know how to eat grass and scratch around like a chicken

 

[2ndTink]

Here is my favorite pullet from the Brinsea test hatch, she's been such a curious little chicken and really calm.


And two of the bantams that don't like the cold weather, their favorite place is to perch on the plate heater and keep their toes warm.

 

[TwoCrows]

Here is my favorite pullet from the Brinsea test hatch, she's been such a curious little chicken and really calm.
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And two of the bantams that don't like the cold weather, their favorite place is to perch on the plate heater and keep their toes warm.
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She's a beauty! Love the rusty colors!

As for those two chilly birds.... If they fits, they sits. Heated roost bar !! (Give Baby Bird a snuggle for me. )

 

[2ndTink]

She's a beauty! Love the rusty colors!

As for those two chilly birds.... If they fits, they sits. Heated roost bar !! (Give Baby Bird a snuggle for me. )

They're so cute up there together. She isn't usually that floofed up, but I caught her poofing her feathers out with all her might and needed a photo

I am looking forward to seeing how the SFH pullet passes on that golden feathering. I have an older pullet that is very similar and she's developed a little blue along with gold and she's so beautiful!

 

[RememberTheWay]

Here is my favorite pullet from the Brinsea test hatch, she's been such a curious little chicken and really calm.
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And two of the bantams that don't like the cold weather, their favorite place is to perch on the plate heater and keep their toes warm.
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Is the darker one a silkied Cochin? It looks very similar to the ones I have here. What is the light colored one?

 

[wrathsfarm]

Here is my favorite pullet from the Brinsea test hatch, she's been such a curious little chicken and really calm.
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And two of the bantams that don't like the cold weather, their favorite place is to perch on the plate heater and keep their toes warm.
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They're beautiful, Tink. I like the coloring on that first pullet.

 

[2ndTink]

They're beautiful, Tink. I like the coloring on that first pullet.

That breed has the base of BBS like many birds, she is a splash, I'm not sure how that golden brown works genetically but I'm fixing to find out! I wouldn't mind a few more like that

 

[2ndTink]

Here's the feathers from my other splash SFH that has all the brown. The brown has variegated specs and then she has some blue on some feathers too. She's so pretty!