Ohregano
Chirping
Last year I ordered the "dark brown egg female surplus" from cackle hatchery. I ordered 10 5 of them and I suspect that 3 of them are roosters. I wasn't positive until the last week or so when I had a minute to slow down and just watch them for a bit. They are absolute units too! Positively huge chickens.
This one I believe is a French Black Maran. You can see the hens in the background. There's another that looks just like this. I've been informed he's likely a Black Cochin.
This one I think is a French Black Copper Maran. A Partridge Cochin...
We ordered a total of25 20 chickens, and we've got 9 left. We lost a few as chicks, they killed 2 themselves and the rest hopped their fence and my dogs got them. We have a massive area for them to forage too. They can also hop their back fence and get in our pig pen. The pigs love the chickens. The chickens stand on their backs and pick bugs and grain off them.
Anyways this would mean I've got 4 roosters (these 3 and a Black Sumatra), 5 hens (2 marans, 2 black sumatra, 1 easter egger). Which sucks, but explains why I only get 1-3 eggs a day. Some days we find none.
We ordered a total of
Anyways this would mean I've got 4 roosters (these 3 and a Black Sumatra), 5 hens (2 marans, 2 black sumatra, 1 easter egger). Which sucks, but explains why I only get 1-3 eggs a day. Some days we find none.
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