NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

Beer can I think so too. And they can be bred with brown leghorns to improve their color.

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[cutipatooti]

Hopefully I will be able to breed them and have chicks for next years chickenstock.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I haven't had any issues with my leghorns. They can be flighty but with my other birds aren't bad. My wyandottes are my favorite with the brahmas and cochins close behind though.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Cutipatooti- Do you have any extra isabelle roosters?

 

[baunlee]

wow this thread is impossible to keep up with. I have been in school so busy and only get to check up on this when I can. The chickens have been good and mr.baunlee tried incubating some eggs. I happen to be home for a week before the summer term starts. It seems like the chicks are having a hard time getting out. I know you are not supposed to help them but is there anything else you can say for advice? I just got here last night but apparently some of them have been dying before getting out.

also is there any way you can tell between hens loosing feathers because they are getting picked at or from roosters? like does it look any different? because they dont seem to be pecking at one another

 

[cutipatooti]

Cutipatooti- Do you have any extra isabelle roosters?

They just hatched the other day so I'm not sure what I have yet. I will let you know, but I intend to grow them out first.

 

[cutipatooti]

wow this thread is impossible to keep up with. I have been in school so busy and only get to check up on this when I can.  The chickens have been good and mr.baunlee tried incubating some eggs. I happen to be home for a week before the summer term starts. It seems like the chicks are having a hard time getting out. I know you are not supposed to help them but is there anything else you can say for advice? I just got here last night but apparently some of them have been dying before getting out.

also is there any way you can tell between hens loosing feathers because they are getting picked at or from roosters? like does it look any different? because they dont seem to be pecking at one another

I have had a terrible time hatching too. Even dry hatching the eggs are showing signs of too high humidity.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

They just hatched the other day so I'm not sure what I have yet. I will let you know, but I intend to grow them out first.

That would be awesome! Thank you!

 

[Pyxis]

I love the Isabel leghorns! So pretty. Cuti, if you end up with another extra rooster, I'd be interested too. I've never had a problem with my own leghorns. I even had one once that was so friendly she flew up onto my shoulder to ride around when I was in the yard.

I had two sebastopol goslings and two cemani chicks hatch today! One cemani is a cull, I will keep it until I can tell the gender, at which point if it's a rooster it will be either given away or eaten, and if a pullet it'll go in my egg layer flock. The other looks promising, I'll have to grow it out and see what happens.

 

[Pyxis]

Oh, and I found my missing welsh harlequin drake. As I suspected, the brat went to live with the neighbor's white pekins. He led them straight into my yard today and into the seasonal swamp for a swim. If I didn't know the neighbor's birds were disease free that would have been quite a biosecurity freak out.

Now I'm wondering if he will try to move them into my coop - I have had a drake disappear for three months before, steal someone's pekin duck (not my close neighbors, who didn't get ducks until this year) and then bring it back to live at my place. No idea where that drake found that duck. None of my close neighbors had ducks then and he was gone for three months. I honestly thought he was dead and I'd never see him again, and then one day he's back in his pen with a pekin.