Redinator's First Hatch-Along w Bonus Broody: And Everything Thereafter

[redinator]

Yeah that's not cool. Bubble did this a few times and about gave me a heart attack.

Especially with an illness going around, my heart would stop too.

 

[ChickenChick46]

Especially with an illness going around, my heart would stop too.

This was earlier on when everyone was still inside, but this group was already younger and smaller than my first group had been when I got them. Then Pippin had pasty butt. I was a nervous wreck already.

 

[redinator]

This was earlier on when everyone was still inside, but this group was already younger and smaller than my first group had been when I got them. Then Pippin had pasty butt. I was a nervous wreck already.

They do like to compound the worry a bit. It's nice when things go smoothly for awhile and I can just enjoy them.

 

[jxp]

Cookie: Has a bit of red coming in on the shoulders it spreads and 'she' isn't a male
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What's the significance of red shoulders on a baby chicken?

 

[redinator]

What's the significance of red shoulders on a baby chicken?

If there's red color leakage isolated to the wings and shoulders it's generally a male specific color pattern. Cookie's may spread and the coloring could become more uniform throughout the feathers, so too early to say for sure.

 

[redinator]

@jxp here's a webpage with a few examples of red leakage towards the bottom: https://bitchinchickens.com/2018/11...exual-dimorphism-will-help-you-figure-it-out/

 

[redinator]

I just finished setting up my side yard as a quarantine area. A friend and I are swapping some chickens around this weekend. He's getting my RIR pullets and I'm getting his Black Jersey Giants.

His flock is 4 chickens, 1 cockerel and 3 Pullets and they're about two weeks older than my TSC flock so they're about 15-16 weeks old.

He can't have roosters, but I can. He doesn't want to deal with breeding and chicks and I can't get enough of them, lol.

The henhouse/nestbox should be enough for the 4 of them to sleep in and get out of the wind/rain for the 1 month period before I start trying to integrate. There's a feeder and waterer and a large perch so they can get up off the ground. When my friend gets here we'll be putting up a shade cloth so they don't bake in the sun.

Did I miss anything?

 

[TwoCrows]

I just finished setting up my side yard as a quarantine area. A friend and I are swapping some chickens around this weekend. He's getting my RIR pullets and I'm getting his Black Jersey Giants.

His flock is 4 chickens, 1 cockerel and 3 Pullets and they're about two weeks older than my TSC flock so they're about 15-16 weeks old.

He can't have roosters, but I can. He doesn't want to deal with breeding and chicks and I can't get enough of them, lol.

The henhouse/nestbox should be enough for the 4 of them to sleep in and get out of the wind/rain for the 1 month period before I start trying to integrate. There's a feeder and waterer and a large perch so they can get up off the ground. When my friend gets here we'll be putting up a shade cloth so they don't bake in the sun.

Did I miss anything?

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Looks like a good place to keep them! How high is that fence? You might want to add some sort of netting to keep them from flying on or over it?

 

[redinator]

Looks like a good place to keep them! How high is that fence? You might want to add some sort of netting to keep them from flying on or over it?

The fence is 6 ft high and we'll be adding a shade cloth over the area where the hen house/nest box is.

The only chickens I have that even thought about going over are some very skittish game bantams. Thankfully a shake of a treat bucket brings them down, but my friend will be taking those two as well. He has a covered aviary and alot more space than I do to accommodate them.