Our introduction to keeping chickens, the high's, the lows and pics of our journey.

[CB and CG]

#1 Fav is looking boyish to me but still probably too young to tell for sure.

Interesting that your purchased lorps don't have the white in their wings. Every chick I have hatched has had white. Must just be a different line of Australorps.

 

[Bens-Hens]

I have the same suspicions about #1. Our crosses do have the white, but yet to see any on the ones from Katt. They are not as far along though so maybe just late bloomers. Funny, because Luna was an egg from the first of our hatches, which came from Katt too (different coloured egg though)

Probably won't recognise them after 4 days away! I will get some shots then and see

 

[NovaAman]

yeah, you have one of each on the favs. You start getting that grey in on the feathers first.. then you'll start seeing the feet feathers. If you get grey starting there, you have a boy. The girls will get no grey at all, unless you get muddy girls. They'll just be dark salmon then... like this one...

It's mother and daughter, I think I posted them here a bit ago. Mama has the black tips in her hackle, and abit in her tail, some darker foot feathering. Breeding her will give richer color on the boys, but darker girls, unless I have a lighter boy, then I should get some lighter offspring on the girls, but the quality of the boys will be... meh... if I understood it right.

Like I said, I get head humming when it comes to genes. LOL

 

[Wrightsx4]

When Baby was a week old she had the gray/blackish primaries at first which made me think she was a male, but when the next rows came in they were all salmon and white. No dark in the legs at all. That's why I held out hope when 6 out of 7 of my recent hatch had the Smokey color in their wings...they were boys of course! They also grew random black on the legs early on.

 

[NovaAman]

Hey Ben... just cuz you're out of town for a minute or a bunch... you can't neglect us. LOL

 

[Wrightsx4]

I was thinking the same thing! C'mon Ben, bring out that iPhone .

 

[babyfoot]

I was thinking the same thing! C'mon Ben, bring out that iPhone

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If he doesn't he won't know that I am about to be a chook grandma again. One of the eggs under Coco is pipping and cheeping already, two whole days early. By the time I get home I will have alil, ball of fluff cheeping all over the place

 

[Wrightsx4]

Yay more babies! I hope we'll get to see some pics.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I say we run a muck on his thread. While the cat is away the mice will play.

 

[ozexpat]

How about a photo flood of our chickens?