Where did you get them?Here are my new NN babies!
They are very feisty! I've seena few of them grab another chick by the foot and drag it away from the feeder. Is that normal? I've never brooded chicks before, only had broody hens do it.
Any guesses on what colors I have?
Thanks!
Welcome.
Welcome to you too.
@DesertChic now that is one barred rooster that I could live with in my flick. @Pensmaster and @LocalYokel once you get some you'll love them. I really enjoy mine. I've dressed a few in my time and they definitely have fewer feathers to deal with. Most of the hens are good layers. So welcome to the naked side!Okay....Just one more photo. This is Dutch @ 17 weeks. His weight is toward the higher end in my flock, and he's got decent breast and thigh musculature, but I admit that it's his feathering that's winning me over. I'm a sucker for all that white...and then he's got some red barring too. I'm hoping to keep this one too.
I'll be pulling for her...I'm feeling like a bad chicken mommy today. Last night we got home rather late and I wasn't feeling well, so I sort of rushed through the process of locking up the chickens and didn't notice the young NN pullet who'd opted to hang out on the porch of the cabin all alone instead of tucking herself in her coop with her friends. Our weather was cold and windy all night...gusts around 60 knots...and rainy. I awoke early to find my little girl limping on one leg and shivering right outside my bedroom slider. There was a cut on her foot that I suspect may have come from an a rat or something, so I treated it with Blue-Kote and isolated her all day and put her under a heat lamp to warm her up. She finally began eating tonight and was standing on her leg some...and appeared quite distressed as her friends went to their coop...so I put her in there with them. I'm really hoping she recovers okay and that I made the right decision about returning her to the coop. I don't think I'll be resting well tonight because I'm a worrier. I just want to awaken tomorrow to find her back to normal.
You mean 4-6 eggs per week, right?They absolutely live up to it! My girls average 4-6 large eggs each per day even while molting, and some go broody. (I consider that a plus.) The boys I've been most recently been posting photos of are 17-18 weeks old and weigh 4-5 pounds. Not all of my boys have been as meaty as I like, but that's why they're being culled and I'm breeding for better meat production...and believe me, my "meaties" have nice solid bodies, strong frames, and outstanding meat.
I got them from Ideal Poultry.
I'll be pulling for her...
You mean 4-6 eggs per week, right?
@Pensmaster
, I have a lot fewer birds than DesertChic, but I had 7 cockerels in my hatchery chick group. I weighed them every single week and graphed it all out (very CDO!), and kept the largest ones. They are 20 weeks. The primary flock leader is 7.7 lbs, other two "backup" boys are 6.7 lbs and 6.3 lbs. They are built like bricks/tanks.
- Ant Farm
I got mine from Cackle Hatchery. I've seen a bunch come in for an auction from Cackle once and they had a bunch of different colors in them. Silver, red, buff, black, and various other colors.
Here's a photo of a rooster and a hen that I got from Cackle.
Probably half of my flock carry his blood.
This is the maternal line of my mottled NN project.
CACKLE HATCHERY
