North Carolina

[Miss Lydia]

Here are my new babies. I don't know how to add pictures correctly, thats why this one is so small.

when I double clicked on the pic it came up big, very pretty chicks.

 

[BHep]

Got NOTHING done today.

Kids decided they had no milk...cereal... poptarts etc...... although I just went shopping Thrus.

So off to Walmart, loaded up on groceries and stuff . Stopped at a yard sale, picked up some goodies

and now have 3 more kids added to the mix for a play date. So 8 kids running screaming and having a grand O' time.

Supper is in the crock pot...making beef stew.

YUP.......... in the crock pot

I hatched 9 bluff laced Brahma. She sent 12, 9 made it to lock down and all hatched.

And I have chicken eggs pipped in the Genesis and ducks in the Brinsea due in a couple of days. Both will be refilled as soon as they are cleaned.

Repeat !

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Chicken pics. Since I spent the day with them, I thought I'd share some of my feathery goodness:

First, a couple of Splash. My favorite girl in the foreground.





Then a couple of my blue hens...




I had trouble getting a good shot of my blue roo. He escapes getting named, too.




My black (split) cockerel, Toby...





A couple black (split) hens....




I couldn't get a good shot of Sasquatch, the buff roo. But, the next picture is what's going to WCA...maybe even next weekend, if hubby can build cheapy transport cages.





I feel like I'm posting chicken porn or something.......

 

[Country Chickens]

No worries, I figured it was something like that. I didn't think you could be there cause we were the only ones with silkies and people kept acting like they were an alien crossed with a bunny. In a chicken suit.

But, it was fun...and when we got home we found both our guinea keets had pipped! And then when we were outside one of the keets popped out!!! Yay!!!

These keets are presold to a lady who's pretty desperate to get them and has been wanting biweekly updates, so I'm very glad to have good news for her. I love connecting people with their silkies and guineas!

Guess we'll see you at the Winston-Salem show?

Me and a friend were planning to bring quite a few silkie chicks and I was going to bring a few older birds but me and her both are sick and just didn't feel like going. lol So sorry hun. Glad to hear it turned out well though!

 

[gavinandallison]

Hi all, so got up this morning to cheeps, pips and zips...... Spent time outside getting 4 Partridge Silkies use to the outside for next weeks migration. Now 8pm, all outoor birds asleep, and in to 26 chicks hatched!
2 are still in the incubator, this mass below is 24 little chicks!




And for those who want types, there are BLRW's Buff Orps and Barnevelders.

 

[TarheelBirdy]

We went to the Burlington Tractor Supply flock swap and got a Ring Neck Pheasant trio. Beautiful!

 

[Country Chickens]

Nice birds, HollowOakFarm! And GavinandAllison---chicks!!! Such pretty like babies, and all sacked out! Sounds like you had a busy day, and so did they!

 

[BHep]

Chicken pics. Since I spent the day with them, I thought I'd share some of my feathery goodness:

First, a couple of Splash. My favorite girl in the foreground.





Then a couple of my blue hens...




I had trouble getting a good shot of my blue roo. He escapes getting named, too.




My black (split) cockerel, Toby...





A couple black (split) hens....




I couldn't get a good shot of Sasquatch, the buff roo. But, the next picture is what's going to WCA...maybe even next weekend, if hubby can build cheapy transport cages.





I feel like I'm posting chicken porn or something.......

Beautiful !!! And are the turkey friendly ? Are they in with your chickens ?

 

[AHDCST]

Albemarle NC here. We are about 20 miles east of Charlotte. It is nice to see so many NCarolinians on here. Hope all have a successful Spring hatch/hatches! I have a broody BB Red OEGB and a broody Barred OEGB one is sitting on 5 eggs and the other one is on 8!
BB Red Old English Game Bantam cockerel. Spring2012 round 1


BB Red hen(Ethel) sitting on her nest.


Spring 2012 incubator hatch-round 2

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Beautiful !!! And are the turkey friendly ? Are they in with your chickens ?

Friendly? As in, like to be handled? Not that friendly. Our keeper tom, Bob, will let folk pet him, but these haven't been handled like that. But friendly as in, will walk near you without you needing to worry about being attacked? Yes. Attack birds around here become soup, and the word has spread, so we haven't had to turn anyone into soup for poor manners in years. Those two are from last year's hatch. I only want to keep a trio, and right now I havee three males to two females, so there's a lot of pushing and shoving out there. Those two youngsters need to go!

The turkeys and chickens do free-range together. I've never convinced the turkeys to sleep indoors, even though they have a place of their own. They prefer the henhouse roof and adjacent crab apple tree, although occasionally during bad weather the girls will opt to move into the henhouse for warmth.