LoreWalker
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- Jul 15, 2020
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Chicken update and a bit of a rant ahead
All 7 of our chickens were rescues, and a few of them weren't in great shape, weight wise. It seems like at this moment, only 2 of the ladies are laying eggs (our double laced barnevelder and one of our wyandotte bantams). We have given them unlimited access to pellets in a feeder, every morning they get a scoop of seeds tossed into the run as well as greens/veggie leftovers to keep em busy foraging. Hopefully they'll all gain a little weight and then hopefully eventually we'll have more ladies laying eggs.
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The picture below I showed before, but in a thread asking to identify what cross Toos (and the others) may be...
Verdict was silky cross and someone mentioned Toos may be a rooster... which I think I can now confirm, because Toos seems to be growing out some slightly longer tail feathers
He also has started sounding less like a chick and more like a chicken, but no crowing so far and we were told the youngest chickens were about 6 months old.
Since we already have a large brahma rooster, at some point one of them will probably have to go if Toos is indeed a rooster. So far the big boy lets Toos eat right next to him, no problem.
Eventually we want to have mostly larger chickens (brahmas and large wyandottes probably), as we live in the forest and the little bantams just get snatched away a bit too easily to my liking, if we want to let em roam the yard.
We currently have two wyandotte bantams and Toos and Emmy (the silkie crosses) would be considered bantams too I think. Our other two are "regular" sized chickens, but obviously compared to a brahma those still aren't super big.
All 7 of our chickens were rescues, and a few of them weren't in great shape, weight wise. It seems like at this moment, only 2 of the ladies are laying eggs (our double laced barnevelder and one of our wyandotte bantams). We have given them unlimited access to pellets in a feeder, every morning they get a scoop of seeds tossed into the run as well as greens/veggie leftovers to keep em busy foraging. Hopefully they'll all gain a little weight and then hopefully eventually we'll have more ladies laying eggs.
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The picture below I showed before, but in a thread asking to identify what cross Toos (and the others) may be...
Verdict was silky cross and someone mentioned Toos may be a rooster... which I think I can now confirm, because Toos seems to be growing out some slightly longer tail feathers
He also has started sounding less like a chick and more like a chicken, but no crowing so far and we were told the youngest chickens were about 6 months old.
Since we already have a large brahma rooster, at some point one of them will probably have to go if Toos is indeed a rooster. So far the big boy lets Toos eat right next to him, no problem.
Eventually we want to have mostly larger chickens (brahmas and large wyandottes probably), as we live in the forest and the little bantams just get snatched away a bit too easily to my liking, if we want to let em roam the yard.
We currently have two wyandotte bantams and Toos and Emmy (the silkie crosses) would be considered bantams too I think. Our other two are "regular" sized chickens, but obviously compared to a brahma those still aren't super big.