Duckling was cuddling a BA at the store. I just don't need six more chickens! It was so cool though. I wish I'd taken a picture.That's a garter snake, very benign, and appears to be a pretty good size. Wow! There are several types in Pa. but there ends my input. Like the site fisherlady. Thanks!
I use a sharpie marker, we have yet to have a chick hatch with a tattoo.
I know, I know.....v
Morning all!
Well, I showed my chick picks on the "cockerel or pullet" thread and was told that 4 of my 6 Ameraucanas appeared to be cockerels. It is certainly not what I wanted to hear since that would mean just 5 out of 12 were pullets.I have ZERO luck! Last year I bought 6 pullets and 4 straight run and ended up with 5 hens and 5 roosters from the bunch...1 "pullet" was a cockerel and all the straight run were!
In the end this would give me 5 hens (4 BSL and 1 RIR), 5 pullets (3 BO and 2 Amer.) and a BO cockerel, a fine size for a backyard flock but a little smaller then I was secretly hoping for.
I guess I'll just have to get more next year...replace the 2 year old hens and add in more!
What do you have on the ground for them? My chicks are 3-7 days old and with the broody that hatched them. They are just getting chick starter. I'd like to build a temp additional run for them. The coop area isn't super big and the hen and crate seems to take up a lot of the area.
