Plot Twist Poultry flocks!

PlotTwistPoultry · Apr 17, 2025

This is honestly for me to have a place to dump my chicken pictures and general posts about them. I've got to stop spamming my friends

Seriously, I take my pictures of my chickens than I ever did of my son when he was a baby.

PlotTwistPoultry · Apr 17, 2025

Starting off with young chick pics! These are our meat birds when we brought them home. First all the Cornish xs, then the others are Western Rustics.

I'll add more later but I have a book to finish writing!

PlotTwistPoultry · Apr 18, 2025

Time for our hens! We ended up losing one of the lavender orpingtons, and another of the lavender orpingtons ended up being a cockerel that we're seeing if he stays well behaved.

A note since I've read many posts about the dangers of heat lamps: we aren't planning to use them again. The brooder plates we got, the chick didn't seem to like. So we had three points of security on the lamps, so that if one failed, there were two backups and if any of them failed it wouldn't change the position into dangerous territory. If all three happened to fail, I would assume that meant the "Big One" earthquake hit off the Oregon coast and at that point, unfortunately the chicks wouldn't be high priority.