I'm a bit late to the party here but wow! So glad Sarah is okay! that looks like a mess. My dad drives trucks and met her at the Sadieville swap this summer, so I had called to tell him about it. He is surprised she made it! Flipping trucks and especially ejectrions usually are not a good ending.
Kathy, I'll at your place to pick up all of those birds asap please. thanks! Seriously, those barred rock ladies are gorgeous. Can I just admit now that I have never had a good ol regular black barred rock? I had a blue barred rock rooster, blue rock hen and splash rock hen. And have that blue rock/dellie girl from Scott. But never a "regular" barred rock.
I had to do some rearranging tonight. The barred cochin hen and her daughter were complaining about each other through the baby gate and the babies could go back and forth.......PLUS, a certain broody bantam cochin of mine has started to lay the smack down on her 2 black rooster children. Not sure whats going on there, but I definitely needed to move that batch into a different brooder. She had those 2 boys on the opposite end from the heat lamp and its just too cold for that. So they got moved into the left half of my bottom brooder shed, where there is a high roost only momma can reach and a nice heat lamp right in the middle where it will keep everyone warm and alive, even if boys get banished to the outer reaches
And I got pix, of course.
Barred cochin momma and her 6 babies. The 3 I lost were the blue, the poofy cheeked black and the other black. Sigh. The black that survived is tiny....looks either runty or maybe mixed with bantam.
Babies all tucked in and warm.
Running after momma
Momma showing them food
Bantam cochin and babies in their "new" brooder
Originally I thought I had 5 of 7 roosters....Now I am thinking 1 of the blacks may be a girl. So 4 boys and 3 girls...That wouldn't be the worst split ever. I am going to definitely keep the BIG black boy and all the girls. Pretty funny if I end up with 1 black girl, 1 blue girl and 1 splash girl from that batch LOL.
They could drown! And they certainly need to know a thing or two about diseases in general. Oh my... I will be sure to hand out some flyers. I am totally with you on all that bull that kids think about chicks. It'd be nice if their parents took any thinking to it. My neighbors got the "chicken idea" from me, and let their 4 year old have a chick. GOD my mom and I were mad. He SLEPT WITH IT ON HIS PILLOW, AND KILLED IT.
