Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

[3KillerBs]

I would be tempted to leave her with them. Protection from the bigger girls and an educator.

It would be a shame to keep her in the tiny integration pen instead of free to roam around the coop and run with her brothers (I sold all her sisters).

How sweet. Maybe she'll want to be a mama hen soon.

She's in the vicinity of 12 weeks now, but about half of my Blue Australorps eventually go broody.

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

How sweet. Maybe she'll want to be a mama hen soon.

Thats so sweet. Maybe she felt she was outnumbered so she just went with the flow, lol

 

[3KillerBs]

Thats so sweet. Maybe she felt she was outnumbered so she just went with the flow, lol

I'd have been less surprised if it had been one of the males being so calm about chicks. Many of my boys take an active interest in chicks once they hit the "teenage" stage.

One of the things I love about the Australorps is how laid back they are.

 

[janiedoe]

I'd have been less surprised if it had been one of the males being so calm about chicks. Many of my boys take an active interest in chicks once they hit the "teenage" stage.

One of the things I love about the Australorps is how laid back they are.

Stop that! Stop tempting me to get australorps!

 

[janiedoe]

Here is my little mama, Queenie, and some of her chicks. There are 6 total.

Papa, Porter, is calling them for food and keeping the other hens away from them.

 

[ChicksnMore]

My oegb spangles with their first hen hatched babies. Really loving just watching the whole flock with them.

 

[janiedoe]

My oegb spangles with their first hen hatched babies. Really loving just watching the whole flock with them.View attachment 3467538

How do your girls do with the babies? I've been thinking of getting some oegb from Cackle, if I can talk myself in to having them shipped.

 

[CSolis]

I felt like a dunce yesterday after having found some broken eggs outside the nesting bucket where Poof Poof had been sitting 6 eggs.. First one eggshell, then another then yesterday 2 more.. Oh no, who's breaking eggs? I should have known by the neat zip lines what was happening but was too upset to think straight. I reached in for the last two eggs before they got broken, and came out with a handful of fluffiness instead.. Today mom and her Feb 1 hatchling are tending the 6 chicks on their first trip out of the nest. These 6 chicks are not mom's either nor are related to Sherbert the 15 week old pullet. Amazing!

 

[Bigandlittles]

Seasons, my young Serama hen, takes her duties of “chick sitting” her siblings seriously…. but also has fun teaching them how to camouflage into the dinosaur blanket!
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I love how the one on the right I looking at auntie like “who me”

 

[WoDia]

I love how the one on the right I looking at auntie like “who me”

That one turned out to be a gorgeous black rooster…. the only male in that bunch.