My New Additions ***Now with Pics***

[hplowe]

Picked up 8 new Chickens Yesterday from a local breeder... 4 Black Langshan Pullets (16 weeks old) and 4 RiR Pullets (14 weeks old)... I will post pics soon... With my 4 Black Austrolorps, that makes 12... but 3 cockerels will be going to the feed Store swap Saturday so we will have 9 left.

One quick Question, are Black Langshan Pullets supposed to be booted?

4 RiR's and 4 Black Langshans

4 Originals meeting the "noobs"

one of our originals (we wanted this one to be a Pullet)

RiR wants out

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

Where's that smiley that says "This Thread is useless without pics"!!!!! Which it is.

We want Pics!!!!! We want Pics!!!!! We want Pics!!!!

 

[LeBlackbird]

Langshans should have light foot feathering.

 

[hplowe]

They do, and have a green shimmer too

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

Lovely girls. That little roo is pretty too. Will you be able to keep him?

 

[hplowe]

we want to, but how would we keep from getting fertilized eggs?

 

[mrbstephens]

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Oooo Oooo. I can answer this one! I have 5 hens and 1 rooster. The rooster is loving my one laying hen. He mates with her several times a day!

As long as you're collecting the eggs every day, there is no way for an embryo to develop. My hen started laying last week. The eggs are fertile. I can tell by the tiny bulls eye on the yolk, but there is no chance of this turning into a chick unless it were to be incubated or if a hen were willing to sit on it. I don't have a broody hen anyway so if I were to not collect the eggs and leave them there, a chicken would either eat it, stomp on it, or it would just rot. Hope that helps!

 

[hplowe]

So we can keep him!!!! Should I keep 2 with 9 females? Or would they fight? Harvested fertilized eggs taste the same?

 

[speckledhen]

You need about twice as many hens for two roosters as you have. Fertile eggs are no different than any other egg in taste. Most every egg we get here is fertile.

 

[hplowe]

So what is the ratio? 1 to every 6-7?